Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998. Yahoo, which has since been acquired by Verizon and merged with AOL to form a joint entity called Oath (which is also the parent […]
View More UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breachCategory: information commissioner’s office
Facebook data misuse firm snubs UK watchdog’s legal order
The company at the center of a major Facebook data misuse scandal has failed to respond to a legal order issued by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog to provide a U.S. voter with all the personal information it holds on him. An enforcement notice was served on Cambridge Analytica affiliate SCL Elections last month and the deadline […]
View More Facebook data misuse firm snubs UK watchdog’s legal orderUK watchdog orders Cambridge Analytica to give up data in US voter test case
Another big development in the personal data misuse saga attached to the controversial Trump campaign-linked UK-based political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica — which could lead to fresh light being shed on how the company and its multiple affiliates acquired and processed US citizens’ personal data to build profiles on millions of voters for political targeting purposes. The […]
View More UK watchdog orders Cambridge Analytica to give up data in US voter test caseCambridge Analytica’s ex-CEO backs out of giving evidence to UK parliament
Alexander Nix, the former CEO of the political consultancy firm at the center of a storm about mishandled Facebook users data, has backed out of re-appearing in front of the UK parliament for a second time. Nix had been scheduled to take questions from the DCMS committee that’s probing online misinformation tomorrow afternoon. In a […]
View More Cambridge Analytica’s ex-CEO backs out of giving evidence to UK parliamentFacebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie
Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share price of the company in recent days and led to the FTC opening a fresh investigation, has suggested the scale of the data leak is substantially larger than has been […]
View More Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims WylieCryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
An attacker injected a crypto mining script into a web plugin’s JavaScript library, and some 4,000 websites — a large number of them taxpayer funded — were co-opted into illegal crypto mining… oopsie… Read More