MGM hack exposes personal data of 10.6 million guests
Personal information of 10.6 million guests who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels was hacked last summer. Read more about this topic at: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51568885
Month: February 2020
EU pushes Tech Giants towards sharing and pooling data
The European Commission report “European strategy for data” wants to force dominant tech companies to have to open up their troves of data to smaller rivals, as other sectors such as financial services already do. Read more about this topic at: https://www.ft.com/content/a5c7b640-526c-11ea-8841-482eed0038b1
Amazon no baseline encryption on email servers?
Amazon’s email servers, used for direct communication between customers and third-party sellers on the platform, do not allow baseline industry encryption in some cases, breaking security rules under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. A complaint to the German Dataprotection Authority was filed by Non-profit group noyb, led by privacy activist Max Schrems Read … Read more
Chinese military accused of hacking Equifax
Four members of China’s military were charged with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax, and stealing trade secrets and the personal data of about 145 million Americans in 2017. Read more about this topic at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/us/politics/equifax-hack-china.html