Google confirms 200+ firms lost Salesforce data via third-party app
- 22-Nov-2025
Google has confirmed a massive supply chain breach in which hackers stole data from over 200 companies, a large portion of which was stored by Salesforce. According to Austin Larsen, a principal threat analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, the scale of the breach was significant. Salesforce has stated that the attack was enabled through […]
Dark Web: Here’s how mobile apps, filters pose risks to personal data
- 20-Nov-2024
KARACHI: As the use of various mobile applications and filters grows, concerns over personal data leaks on the Dark Web are also rising. ARY News anchorperson, Iqrar-ul-Hassan has highlighted the role of the dark web in exploiting users’ mobile data. He revealed how apps gain access to personal images and use them maliciously. Iqrar advised […]
Samsung says some US customer data was exposed in July breach
- 04-Sep-2022
Samsung Electronics Co suffered a cybersecurity breach in late July that exposed personal information of some customers in the United States, the company said on Friday. Customers’ social security numbers and credit card numbers were not affected, but information including name, contact and demographic details, date of birth and product registration data was compromised, Samsung […]
Twitch says source code exposed in last week’s data breach
- 16-Oct-2021
Twitch said on Friday that last week’s data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code. Passwords, login credentials, full credit card numbers and bank details of users were not accessed or exposed in the breach, Twitch said in a statement. We have an update for the community regarding last […]
Australia sues Facebook, alleges breach of user data
- 09-Mar-2020
A representative for Facebook in Australia was not immediately available for comment.
Facebook failed to warn users of known risks before 2018 breach: court filing
- 16-Aug-2019
Users are suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach.
Explainer: What do you do after a data breach?
- 01-Aug-2019
Data breaches will continue to happen as cyber criminals and state-backed hackers target the protected information held by companies and government agencies
Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement
- 09-Apr-2019
Yahoo has struck a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history
US judge rejects Yahoo data breach settlement
- 30-Jan-2019
US judge Lucy said she could not declare the settlement “fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable” because it did not say how much victims could expect to recover.
UK watchdog fines Facebook £500,000 over users’ data breach
- 25-Oct-2018
Britain’s Information Commissioner (ICO) has slapped Facebook with a fine of £500,000, the maximum possible, for its behaviour in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The ICO’s investigation found that between 2007 to 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by giving app developers access to their information without informed consent. The fine was the […]