privacy
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54,000 Aussies Whose Driver’s Licenses Were Exposed In A Leak Still Haven’t Been Told
Months after the privacy breach was exposed, tens of thousands of NSW residents whose driver’s licenses were exposed in a leak online have not been informed by the company responsible for doing so. As first reported by iTnews in August, a researcher discovered that scans of 54,000 NSW driver licenses — the old school plastic…
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Creepy ‘Smart’ Streetlight Cameras In San Diego Can’t Be Turned Off
You never expect a story about infrastructure to take a terrifying turn, but what’s happening in San Diego right now sounds like the setup for a dystopian cyberpunk novel. After the San Diego city council voted to nix funding for a project in which cameras attached to streetlights gather data, the mayor ordered the cameras…
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Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services
Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts, the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the centre of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff unwittingly helped in these attacks.
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Bumble Left Daters’ Location Data Up For Grabs For Over Six Months
Bumble, the dating app behemoth that’s allegedly headed to a major IPO as soon as next year, apparently took over half a year to deal with major security flaws that left sensitive information its millions of users vulnerable.