McDonald’s Data Leak: Why You Should Care?
McDonald’s was hit by a data breach that exposes customers’ data in countries like South Korea and Taiwan. Why should you care?...
16
Jun
07
Jun
2021 Q1 Round Up: Data Breaches in Healthcare Sector
he COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased activity from cybercriminals, targeting the healthcare sector and exposing almost 12 billion protected health information (PHI). The confirmed data breaches in the healthcare industry increased by 58% in 2020. Threat actors took advantage of the national crisis and...
28
May
ParkMobile Data Breach: Why you should be concerned?
ParkMobile already issued a security notification regarding this incident. The message stated that one of their services was hacked and unauthorized people gained access to their customers’ data. If you’re a ParkMobile user, what should you be concerned?...
27
Apr
Reported LinkedIn Data Breach: What You Need to Know
Just upon the heels of the Facebook Data Breach comes a recent report regarding scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online on a popular hacker forum. It was mentioned that 2 million of these records were leaked as samples that contained professional-identifying...
14
Apr
Over 750,000 Personal Touch Home Care Patients Compromised in Ransomware Attack
With the global pandemic, healthcare organizations continue to fall victim to data breaches involving compromise on privacy, personal information, and sensitive health records maliciously being sold or distributed on the Dark Web. ...
09
Apr
Facebook Data Breach: What You Need to Know
Stolen Facebook data that first appeared on a hacking forum in early 2020 has once again hit the news. Personal information of 533 million Facebook users, including names, locations, mobile numbers, dates of birth, and email addresses can be found on hacking forums, open to...
02
Jan
12 Tips to Help Keep Your Data Private
On data privacy day, we would like to share some helpful tips in order for you to keep your data to yourself. ...
31
Aug
What is a VPN and How Does it Increase Your Online Security and Privacy?
August 31, 2020 The number of VPN users has grown considerably over the past few years. According to the report of Go-Globe, 25% of netizens worldwide have used a VPN at least once in the last 30 days. Recently, VPN usage has surged in many countries and...
11
Feb
How to Manage Your Privacy On and Off Facebook
Facebook has been listening (to some extent!) to regulators and consumers, and has started the new year by offering users more tools to shine a light on where and how their data is being used, and how they can protect their privacy....
02
Oct
In Identity Theft the Target is You!
The hard truth is that identity data is the new gold—and criminal panhandlers are mining it for sale and distribution on the Dark Web....