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Wyzant—an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects—has suffered a data breach exposing “certain personal identification information” for its customers. The Hacker News received a copy of an email notification Wyzant recently sent to its affected customers, which reveals […]
The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside entity gained “unauthorized access” to its web application and accessed […]
The Government of Germany ordered Facebook to restrict the way the social network collects information from its users According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Bundeskartellamt, the competition authority in Germany ordered Facebook to restrict its data collection and mixing policy when the users did not have […]
A lot of our personal information could be stored online forever Limiting the exposure of your personal data can be a very simple or too complex task depending on each person. In addition, according to cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, people cannot completely prevent a digital platform from collecting their information, […]
An unknown hacker stole the personal information of nearly 100,000 McDonald’s Canada job applicants by breaching the fast food chain’s jobs website, the company confirmed on Friday afternoon. The hack affected anybody who applied for a job online at McDonald’s in Canada between March of 2014 and March of 2017. The information that was compromised included […]
Short Bytes: FamilyTreeNow.com is one of the creepiest websites on the internet. It stores a striking amount of personal data — including name, age, family members, and addresses — which can’t be ignored. It looks like a free database that has fetched information from thousands of U.S. public records. Anna Brittain, a writer who brought […]