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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 ...
While the deal did not give the NSA access to Google's data on users' searches or e-mail communications and accounts and Google was not sharing proprietary data with the agency, privacy and civil rights advocates were concerned. In October 2004, Google acquired Keyhole, a 3D mapping company.
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 ...
Google employees self-reported privacy and data security breaches from recent years that were previously unknown to the public. Reuters The company claimed it was a bug within the Google Assistant ...
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 ...
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC. Google is ...
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks. It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. The flash drive's malicious computer code, placed there by a foreign intelligence agency, uploaded itself onto a ...
The 2012 LinkedIn hack refers to the computer hacking of LinkedIn on June 5, 2012. Passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen. Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 88 months in prison. Owners of the hacked accounts were unable to access their accounts. LinkedIn said, in an official statement, that they ...