#personalinformation — Public Fediverse posts

MakeUseOf: I stopped handing my real email to random websites, here’s what I use instead. “I used to hand over the same address almost everywhere and deal with the resulting newsletters, promotions, and mystery mailing lists later. Now I treat my real email more like my phone number and decide how permanent an address should be before giving it away. A website I need for ten minutes gets […]

Euronews: Hackers access data of 8.8 million people in Denmark in ‘extremely serious’ breach. “Denmark has suffered a major data breach after hackers broke into the country’s national population registry and accessed the personal information of millions of people.”

Fast Company: ‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here’s how to find yours. “Why is Amazon keeping track of the size of shoppers’ butts? That’s the question that brought one Amazon customer to social media, where she shared the discovery that left her ‘literally speechless.'” Mine was boring compared to this one!

Associated Press: Personal information for over 1 million people stolen in a cyberattack on Arizona’s court system. “A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started when a court employee clicked a malicious link in an email. The Arizona Supreme Court said the information was copied for 1.3 million people with […]

Mashable: Meta’s Muse reportedly keeps files on everyone you love. “Muse is reportedly compiling data on users’ family, friends, partners, colleagues, ‘collaborators,’ and other people they follow online. Furthermore, a “Relationships” loop runs every hour in the background on a user’s computer, which updates each person’s page, according to researchers with FutureSociety.”

8.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Denmark’s Central Person Register

Hackers abused a company’s lawful access to the CPR system to steal the personal information of registered citizens.

https://www.securityweek.com/8-8-million-impacted-by-data-breach-at-denmarks-central-person-register/

#databreach #hacking #dataleak #personalinformation #IDverification #ageverification #technology #Denmark

Data on 130,000 students and teachers possibly exposed, Osaka university says

Osaka – Osaka Metropolitan University has said that data on at least 130,000 current and former students and…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Osaka #Cybersecurity #hacking #osakametropolitanuniversity #personalinformation #universities
https://www.europesays.com/japan/102476/