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How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data

Troy Hunt

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). How many times has this API spouted troves of personal data out to people without them even knowing?

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Jscrambler levels-up JavaScript security, slows GenAI-fueled privacy loss

The Last Watchdog

For instance, it helps online tax services prevent leakage of taxpayers’ personal information via pixels, those imperceptible JavaScripts embedded in a web page to collect information about the user’s interactions.

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Selling and utilising personal data in an insolvency situation

Data Protection Report

For example, in February of this year, the FCA and ICO issued a joint statement warning regulated firms and insolvency practitioners of their responsibilities when dealing with personal data. What are the legal mechanisms to sell or utilise personal data in an insolvency situation? Asset sales.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why any sudden influx of spam emails is an indicator of a likely security issue

The Last Watchdog

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. They can use it to trace online activity , find attached accounts and uncover personal data. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 billion people by using malware.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

In its guidance for app developers, the Information Commissioner’s Office advises that: “Users of your app must be properly informed about what will happen to their personal data if they install and use the app. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? What’s that? An average victim machine could “generate about $0.25

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Cathay to mine personal data to tailor to premium flyers

Information Management Resources

The airline is logging the travel habits of lucrative business-class flyers, such as when they want their seat laid flat, in a bid to individually tailor flights for them.

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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

In a written statement, First American said it strongly disagrees with the DFS’s findings, and that its own investigation determined only a “very limited number” of consumers — and none from New York — had personal data accessed without permission.

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