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Data breach of possible 14 million users at Hostinger

Usernames, emails, first names and IP addresses have been breached at web hosting provider and internet domain company Hostinger International, affecting a possible 14 million customers. The company said it has reset user passwords as a “precautionary measure” after it detected unauthorised access to a database containing sensitive information. Hackers breached its internal system API

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Campaigners warn of facial recognition “epidemic”

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Privacy group Big Brother Watch (BBW) has warned that the use of facial recognition technology across public spaces is becoming more widespread. It was revealed recently that hundreds of thousands of visitors to the King’s Cross area of London were being covertly scanned. Public spaces including museums and shopping centres are rife with the technology

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Data breach affects university accounts

Sara Frost

London based educational software maker Pearson, has revealed that thousands of school and university accounts have been compromised due to a data breach. Users of the accounts, mostly in the United States, have since been notified and the vulnerability has been rectified. According to the Wall Street Journal, the data breach happened in November 2018

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University students’ data stolen in cyber-attack

Sara Frost

Personal student data has been stolen in a data breach at Lancaster University. The “sophisticated and malicious” cyber-attack was discovered last Friday and an incident team was set up to deal with it. The phishing attack gathered information including records and ID documents and officials at the University said that fraudulent invoices were sent to

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Password reset for thousands of Slack users after a data breach.

Sara Frost

Popular messaging service Slack is to reset the user passwords for thousands of customers after a historic data breach. Around one percent of all Slack users are thought to be affected by the attack – equivalent to over 65,000 customers. Slack, which stands for the Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge, has more than

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