Ding-dong Facebook calling: Amazon Ring blurts data
The Amazon-owned Ring doorbell app, which its advertising claims helps to keep burglars, chancers and conmen at bay, is casually…
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Where’s Wylie? H&M faces Nuremberg data leak trial
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie – the man who lifted the lid on the Facebook data scandal – might want…
Training firm Applause gets booed for Regus data leak
Staff at office space provider Regus have had internal data about their work performance laid bare online following a cock-up…
GB Group probed for targeting under-age gamblers
GB Group has found itself embroiled in claims that UK betting companies have been given access to a database containing…
Travelex refuses to say if it paid up as service resumes
Lumbering foreign exchange giant Travelex insists it is ready to restore its online services, some two weeks after pulling its…
Dixons slams £500k fine but it could have been £400m
Dixons Carphone has condemned the data regulator for issuing it with a £500,000 fine – over “systemic” security failings – and…
Storm clouds gather over Travelex for hack blackout
Foreign exchange giant Travelex is facing a storm of protest over the week-long cyber-attack which has forced the business to…
BA and Marriott to escape GDPR mega fines…for now
Those who predicted that British Airways and Marriott International might never have to pay the record fines – totalling £282m…
Facebook staff rocked as HR data is snatched from car
Facebook’s insistence that user data is safe as houses does not appear to stretch to its own staff after the…
44 million Microsoft users still using dodgy passwords
Microsoft has revealed that 44 million of its users are still using passwords that have previously been compromised in data…