Data Security

Carnival Cruises will be paying $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 46 attorneys general related to a data breach in 2019 that compromised data from 180,000 employees and clients across the U.S.

Magecart attacks are around in a more covert way despite their numbers decreasing over the past few months, according to new findings provided by Malwarebytes.

Legislation that would compel the U.S. secretary of commerce to identify critical personal data, as well as countries to which such data could be exported to has been introduced by a bipartisan group of senators amid increasing concerns surrounding the sale of sensitive data to foreign adversaries.

Senators are asking for an FTC probe into Google and Apple for routinely selling user data, saying the practice could lead to privacy harms for women in the wake of Roe v. Wade upheaval.

Following a recent STAT report outlining how Facebook’s Pixel tracking tool allegedly scrapes health data from hospital websites, an individual has sued claiming their medical privacy was violated.

U.S. tech organizations have been facing more intensive reconnaissance efforts from Chinese advanced persistent threat groups since the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

A progress report on the state of healthcare APIs and app ecosystem shows developers and aggregators are making progress on pinpointing privacy and security challenges with data exchange.