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British utility Southern Water says hackers stole personal data of hundreds of thousands of customers
By techtost.com
UK-based water company Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of up to 470,000 customers in a recent data breach. Southern Water, which…
A bug in the online forum for fertility tracking app Glow exposed the personal data of about 25 million users, according to a security researcher. The…
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago and an idea to build a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with…
The startup that develops the phone app for casino giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that leaked customers’ personal information onto the open web. Oklahoma-based…
Mozilla Monitor’s new service automatically removes your personal information from data broker sites
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Mozilla is introducing a new subscription service today that will help people identify and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker sites on the…
Student rideshare startup HopSkipDrive has confirmed a data breach involving the personal data of more than 155,000 drivers. Los Angeles-based HopSkipDrive offers an Uber-style ride-sharing service…
On Sunday, a user on a well-known hacking forum advertised what he claimed was a cache of stolen data from car rental giant Europcar. The user…
Three local councils in the UK continue to experience problems with their online services, a week after it was confirmed that a cyber attack had knocked…
The US Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on data brokers with a settlement that bars data aggregator InMarket from selling consumers’ precise location data. Texas-based…
FTC bars X-Mode from selling phone location data and orders company to delete data collected
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The US Federal Trade Commission has banned data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first…