Data breaches and hacks.
With the recent rumours of the Houseparty being hacked, many people are rushing to delete the app; but are not quite thinking that they also need to delete their account too. Here’s how to do both in the right order: Send an email to support@houseparty.com In the subject line, type Delete My Account. In the email […]
Group videochat app Houseparty has been caught up in some controversy with claims that users’ social media accounts have been hacked after installing and using the app. Across Twitter complaints have been flooding in of hacked Spotify, Netflix and facebook accounts; but these have been strong denied by the app developer Epic games which has […]
The Marriott hotel group has been hacked again for the 2nd time in 2 years. Marriott’s rewards scheme company Bonvoy – which holds contact details (name, mailing address, email address, and phone number); loyalty account information; additional personal details; partnerships and affiliations; and preferences Hotels that data was exposed. Marriott notified customers: “Marriott International announced […]
A Spanish brothel chain running “men’s clubs” in Barcelona and Valencia has left a database exposed online without a password, leaking troves of sensitive information such as details for thousands of escort girls, customer reviews, and the club’s very own financial details. The compromised server exposed the details of 3,350 escort girls who worked or […]
Facebook recently disclosed that a bug may have affected 6.8 million users, exposing their photos to third-party apps. The social networking site said the bug lived for 12 days in September. To check whether an account had been affected, Facebook dedicated a page where users can log in and see if their pictures had been exposed. It […]
Google+ was scheduled to shut its doors in August 2019, but the second security breach in only a few months has caused the company to move its plan forward a few months to April. In that case, it might be a good idea to delete your account sooner rather than later. Google’s latest data breach […]
Victims of the massive Marriott International data breach, which exposed data for 500 million customers, including some passport numbers, may be able to claim for a new passport. Marriott made the statement to The Washington Post mirroring the GDPR stipulations that “if citizens can prove material or non-material damage” they can seek compensation. Out of […]
Marriott’s Starwood Members database has been breached, exposing details of over 500 million members. Marriott confirms that it has found that hackers had unauthorised access to the entire database and had copied data continuously since 2014. Data stolen includes: Name Mailing address Phone number Email address Passport number Starwood Preferred Guest account information Date of […]
411,000 users of animal sex game site High Tail Hall have been alerted today that they’ve been victims of a massive security breach. They’ve had their email addresses, physical addresses, IP addresses, names & orders taken in the data leak. No financial data was compromised; but that’s probably the least of their worries today. As […]
411,000 users of animal sex game site High Tail Hall have been alerted today that they’ve been victims of a massive security breach. They’ve had their email addresses, physical addresses, IP addresses, names & orders taken in the data leak. No financial data was compromised; but that’s probably the least of their worries today. As […]