Equifax

Twitter urges users to change their account passwords after a glitch made some of them readable in plain text

A person familiar with the Twitter's response said the number was “substantial” and that they were exposed for “several months.”

US court rules that Equifax can be sued for data breach which exposed personal details of about 147 million people

The lawsuit alleged that Equifax should have known by March 2017 that a security vulnerability existed in computer code but it failed to patch or upgrade its software.

Aadhaar data breach: UIDAI must address privacy concerns urgently; simply denying leak not enough

Asserting the technical security of the Aadhaar card and the safety of the biometric data alone as a response to privacy allegations is not enough.

Understanding the Data Protection White Paper Part XI: Establishing proper deterrent consequences for privacy violations

Lack of deterrent consequences is one of the key reasons why India’s current IT Act and Rules have failed to protect privacy

Uber reveals cover up of a data breach in 2016, which compromised the information of 57 million accounts

According to Uber's statement, the 2016 incident revealed names, phone numbers and email addresses of about 50 million users across the world to hackers.

Yahoo and Equifax to testify before US senate panel on 8 November regarding the two data breaches

Equifax disclosed in September that the data breach affected as many as 145.5 million U.S. consumers, and Smith has testified on the issue before three committees.

Malaysia launches a probe to investigate an alleged attempt to sell data of more than 46 million mobile subscribers

Customers of Malaysia’s biggest mobile service providers, including Maxis, Axiata Group’s Celcom and DiGi, among others, were affected.

UK market watchdog opens up an investigation into the Equifax hack

Equifax has said that 15.2 million records on British citizens were involved in the breach, including sensitive data on 693,665 individuals.

Credit card applications and purchases likely to be authenticated by selfies in the future

The announcement comes at a time when personal information on 145.5 million Americans was recently accessed or stolen from the credit bureau Equifax.

Equifax claries that its system is not compromised; third-party vendors are running malicious code on the website

Equifax said it has removed the vendor’s code from the web page, which was taken offline so the company can conduct further analysis.