Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/starwood-hotels-says-500-million-guest-records-stolen-in-massive-data-breach/

contained a guest’s name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, passport number, […] arrival and departure information, reservation date […]

Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194

Hacking a Prince, an Emir and a Journalist to Impress a Client - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/middleeast/hacking-united-arab-emirates-nso-group.html

leaked documents and emails that directly challenge the company’s repeated assertions that it is not responsible for any illegal surveillance conducted by the governments that buy its spyware.

Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmj4v/spyware-company-spyfone-terabytes-data-exposed-online-leak

A company that sells surveillance software to parents and employers

hashed passwords and logins, Facebook messages

Data Breaches Keep Happening. So Why Don’t You Do Something? - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/data-breaches.html

Don’t reuse passwords, rely on two-factor verification, install software only from trusted sources, question any alert that pops up on your screen and get a password manager.

‘Big Red Flag’: Automakers’ Trade Secrets Exposed in Data Leak - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/suppliers-data-leak-automakers.html

… the inadvertent exposure of customers’ data illustrates a problem confounding businesses: Some of their biggest security risks come from their suppliers and contractors.

Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim - CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carepartners-data-breach-ransom-patients-medical-records-1.4749515

The attackers told CBC News in an encrypted message that they discovered vulnerable software on CarePartners’ network that had not been updated in two years

8500 Schibsted-kunder berørt av datalekkasje - Aftenposten

https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/L0xOAV/8500-Schibsted-kunder-berort-av-datalekkasje

Brukere av Aftenposten og Bergens Tidende har fått informasjon lekket i et hackerangrep mot tredjepartsløsningen Typeform.

Radiation exposure: a quick guide to what each level means

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