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This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the ...
The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users. [1] Google+ managers first noticed harvesting of personal data in March 2018, [2] during a review following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The bug, despite having been fixed ...
The policy extended to new accounts for all of Google services, including Gmail and YouTube, although accounts existing before the new policy were not required to be updated. In late January 2012 Google began allowing members to use nicknames, maiden names, and other "established" names in addition to their common or real names.
The idea of your personal information being swept up in a data breach sounds terrifying, but in today’s world, security isn’t perfect and it’s bound to happen at one point or another.
They said that it was not a threat to Yahoo!, Inc. The IT Security firm TrustedSec.net said that the passwords contained a number of email addresses from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, and more such websites. Response from Yahoo. Immediately after the hack, Yahoo!, in a written statement, apologized for the breach.
Loaded 0%. Google is set to purge inactive Gmail accounts starting on Dec. 1, but there's an easy way to protect your photos, Google docs and any other data you may want to keep. The company ...
The data has since been purged, according to the company. According to a report, Google Street View cars inadvertently collected license plate data. AFP/Getty Images
Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks performed by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with associations with the People's Liberation Army. [2] First disclosed publicly by Google (one of the victims) on January 12, 2010, by a weblog post, [1] the attacks began in mid-2009 and continued ...