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Tag: Data Breach

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in plaintext in its systems. The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media giant violated four different…
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September 30, 2024
Tanzania opposition asks telecoms firm to respond to data-sharing accusation

Tanzania’s main opposition party has called for telecoms firm Tigo to respond to a former employee’s accusation that the company helped the government track the location of an opponent who was later targeted in a failed assassination attempt. A former worker at Tigo’s parent company, Millicom told a British court this month that Tigo had…
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September 26, 2024
Data on 2.9 Billion People Leaked on Dark Web After One of the Largest Breaches in History

Criminals have posted on the dark web a database containing data on 2.9 billion people, offering to sell it for $3.5 million, according to a lawsuit filed in Florida. Very few data breaches have the dubious honor of being among the largest in history. According to a Bloomberg Law report, the information posted on the dark…
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September 1, 2024