The world’s biggest carmaker on Friday (Oct. 7) apologized for a breach apparently caused by a third-party vendor that is thought to have leaked close to 300,000 email addresses and associated customer management numbers. Toyota Motor announced on its website that email addresses and associated...
A Chinese software developer used web-crawling software to scrape 1.1 billion pieces of data from Alibaba’s Taobao shopping platform, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (June 15), referring to a court verdict in China. The data leak included user IDs, mobile phone numbers...
Internet of Things (IoT) vendor Wyze announced a server leak that exposed the data of 2.4 million customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 24. The leak was the result of an internal database — the Elasticsearch system — being unwittingly exposed online, Wyze Co-founder Dongsheng...
Facebook has revealed that it unknowingly gave outside developers access to some private user information. The social media giant explained that since April 2018, it has removed or restricted a number of its developer application programming interfaces (APIs), including the Groups API, so that an...
February 03, 2023
Switzerland aims to identify and prosecute those behind a 2022 Credit Suisse data leak. Reuters reported Friday (Feb. 3) that the country’s federal prosecutors have launched criminal proceedings and those responsible for the leak have not been identified. The case alleges that banking secrecy laws were violated, Credit Suisse suffered damage and confidential business information was released to foreign […]
October 07, 2022
The world’s biggest carmaker on Friday (Oct. 7) apologized for a breach apparently caused by a third-party vendor that is thought to have leaked close to 300,000 email addresses and...
June 15, 2021
A Chinese software developer used web-crawling software to scrape 1.1 billion pieces of data from Alibaba’s Taobao shopping platform, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (June 15), referring...
December 29, 2019
Internet of Things (IoT) vendor Wyze announced a server leak that exposed the data of 2.4 million customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 24. The leak was the result of...
