Privacy

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.

SiliconAngle reports that online privacy solutions firm Cyrus Labs has been purchased by cybersecurity software provider Malwarebytes although details regarding the acquisition were not disclosed.

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.

BleepingComputer reports that Discord has begun informing 180 users whose personally identifiable information had been exposed in a data breach at a third-party service provider in March.

University of Minnesota officials have reported that its systems may have been subjected to a significant data breach late last month, CBS News Minnesota reports.

BleepingComputer reports that major language learning platform Duolingo had data scraped from 2.6 million of its users exposed on the new iteration of the Breached hacking forum seven months after the data was initially being peddled in the now-defunct Breached site.

Data privacy officer Steven Elentukh said they first learned of the exposure on May 10, when journalists from German news outlet Handelsblatt contacted the company to inform them that they had obtained “Tesla confidential information.