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Fears that leaked New Year’s Honours addresses could be sold on dark web

The home and work addresses of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and emergency service workers have been posted online in a huge Cabinet Office blunder. The government has since apologised “to all those affected” after it accidentally published addresses of more than 1,000 New Year Honour recipients online.1 The file – which included details of senior […]

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More than 100 data breaches reported to the ICO by charities

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Charities reported 108 data breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) for the second quarter of 2019/20. Latest figures show that this figure – although high – is actually down from the same period last year when 137 breaches were reported to the regulator. And not surprisingly, most of these incidents were down to human

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Private text messages of millions of Americans exposed online

A major data breach has leaked the texts and usernames of more than 100 million Americans. According to vpnMentor, a company that ranks virtual private networks (VPN), the database of a company called TrueDialog was compromised allegedily. The company is a US-based enterprise communications firm, providing “Enterprise-Grade SMS Texting Solutions.” The database of 604GB included

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OnePlus Confirms Data Breach

For the second time in two years, smartphone maker OnePlus has been the victim of a cyberattack. Hackers accessed thousands of OnePlus customer data through a vulnerability in the vendor’s website. The company admitted that hackers had accessed sensitive details including customers’ contact numbers, names and addresses but stressed that no payment information and passwords had been

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The business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights, it’s been claimed.

A new report by Amnesty International claims that Facebook and Google’s surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights. The group has now called for the core business model of both companies to be dramatically overhauled. Due to the mass aggregation of personal data, they claim this is violating people’s right to privacy and restricts

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