Data Security

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More than 1.2 million individuals had their data compromised following a data breach at U.S. health-focused home meal delivery service PurFoods in January, which was only identified the following month, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

While security teams can start with patching, here’s a multi-pronged approach to protecting PII in web apps.

BBC reports that an investigation into a suspected data breach has been launched by the UK's Metropolitan Police following a compromise of its supplier's systems, which contained the police force's data, including names, ranks, vetting levels, photos, and pay figures.

Major social media firms Meta, ByteDance, Alphabet, Sina, Microsoft, and X, formerly known as Twitter, have been sought by a group of 12 nations, including Canada, Australia, and the UK, to stop the utilization of data scraping technologies increasingly exploited to obtain and process personal data that could later be leveraged in fraudulent activities and threat intelligence gathering efforts, ZDNET reports.

Data breaches in healthcare decreased by 15% between the second half of 2022 and the first six months of 2023 but individuals affected by such breaches rose from 31 million to 40 million, which is the highest on record, with the increase attributed to the impact from breaches at Managed Care of North America and PharMerica, which are the third- and fourth-largest on record, respectively, reports FierceHealthcare.

Meta has announced that Messenger will have default end-to-end encryption by year-end as it expanded the feature to millions more accounts earlier this week, reports The Hacker News.