On the 21st January 2019, France’s data-privacy watchdog, The CNIL imposed a financial penalty of 50 Million Euros against the company GOOGLE LLC, in conformity with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization”
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Real-time GPS coordinates for over 11,000 buses in India have been left exposed on the internet for over three weeks. The data leaked via an ElasticSearch server that was left connected online without a password, according to security researcher Justin Paine, who shared his findings with ZDNet. The server contained data aggregated from 27 Indian state-owned
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10. Ticketfly — 27 million What was affected: Personal information including names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.When it happened: Late May 2018 How it happened: A hacker called “IsHaKdZ” compromised the site’s webmaster and “gained access to a database titled ‘backstage,’ which contains client information for all the venues, promoters, and festivals that utilize Ticketfly’s services.”
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Summary In the normal course of scanning for open/exposed/vulnerable Amazon S3 buckets, Someone discovered a bucket containing roughly 3,000 imaged of Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards and National ID (Aadhaar) cards from India. After concluding the images and PDFs appeared to be sensitive identification documents he immediately attempted to make contact with India’s CERT team
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Security researchers said they’ve found a new kind of malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter.
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