Data Security

Virginia-based Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel have been accused by the FTC of leveraging consumer location details without consent, as well as peddling health information, religious views, political activities, and other data to others.

Such a rule, which is open for public comments until March 2025, would not only mandate explicit customer authorization for the sale of data but also strengthen protections against the exploitation of collected data.

Most of the exposed employee records belonged to Bank of America, followed by U.S. multinational conglomerate Koch, Finnish multinational telecommunications firm Nokia, and global real estate and investment management services provider JLL, a report from Atlas Privacy showed.

Initially identified in the phone of the assassin of Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, Matrix — also known as Mactrix, X-quantum, Totalsec, and Q-safe — was later infiltrated by a joint Dutch and French investigation team, resulting in the discovery and shutdown of 40 servers leveraged by the platform to support at least 8,000 subscriber accounts.

Included in the files exposed by the misconfiguration, which was discovered in late August and resolved in November, were passports and national IDs, resumes, medical records, travel itineraries, and railway tickets, according to Cybernews researchers, who identified the leak.

Included in the data purportedly stolen and exposed by RansomHub were new and young Bologna FC players' personal and confidential files, fans' and employees' sensitive data, stadium and structure details, and the football team's sponsorship contracts and commercial strategies.

Background check labels were given to most of the leaked data, which consists of full names, phone numbers, home and email addresses, employment details, social media accounts, family members, and criminal record history, a report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremy Fowler published on Website Planet showed.

In a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, OPPC disclosed that infiltration of its systems resulted in the exfiltration of individuals' names, residence details, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medical record numbers, and prescription information although there has been no evidence to suggest misuse of the compromised data.