Privacy

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claims Walmart records calls to its stores, extracts vocal characteristics, and creates mathematical templates to identify callers.

The UK's data protection regulator criticized the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for significant data handling failures, including sharing a stalking victim's new contact details with her abuser and a separate incident exposing the email addresses of 18 individuals connected to Parliament.

Beacon CRM confirmed it was the target of a cyberattack that resulted in the exposure of data belonging to a significant number of UK charities.

As outlined in HackRead, over 102,000 private records from Brazil’s health surveillance system were left accessible online without any security measures, exposing sensitive personal and government information.

Apple's Private Relay, an opt-in feature designed to hide a user's IP address when browsing the internet with Safari, was found to have flaws that can reveal the supposedly hidden IP address.

Some applications are inadvertently sharing users' precise location data with third parties, including advertisers and data brokers, due to default settings within software development kits (SDKs), as first reported by TechCrunch.

New figures reveal that cybercrime victims are losing an average of $9,468 per incident, highlighting the escalating global scale of this problem.

CAF Bank restored its online banking service after a prolonged outage lasting more than 10 days, which the bank attributed to attempted fraud and a subsequent attack aimed at removing user logins.