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Investigators: Foreign Government Possibly Behind Massive Anthem Hack
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — A foreign government may have been behind a cyber breach of health insurance company Anthem Inc. that compromised the records of more than 78 million consumers, investigators...
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Verizon Sought $925M Penalty For Yahoo’s Lax Security
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Verizon demanded a $925 million discount on its acquisition of Yahoo’s online services to help offset the damage from the biggest data breaches in internet history. It ultimately...
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Russian Agents Charged In Massive Yahoo Data Breach
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers have been charged in a devastating breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts, the Justice Department said...
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Equifax Says It Had A Security Breach Earlier This Year
NEW YORK (AP) — Equifax, under pressure from a massive data breach, says it had a separate incident earlier this year. That may mean even more scrutiny as the company deals with the aftermath of a...
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Former Yahoo CEO Grilled By Congress About Security Breach
WASHINGTON (CNN Money) — Marissa Mayer was given one final job for Yahoo: getting grilled by Congress. Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, testified before a Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday about a...
View ArticleNew Lawsuit Says Uber Broke Law By Covering Up Massive Data Breach
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Uber’s massive global data breach is now the source of yet another multi-million dollar lawsuit. Pennsylvania’s attorney general is suing the San Francisco-based ride-hailing...
View ArticleData Breach At Fresno State Possibly Impacts 15,000 People
FRESNO (CBS SF) – A data breach at Fresno State University may have compromised the personal data of up to 15,000 people, the school announced Tuesday. According to a university statement, the data...
View ArticleFacebook CEO Zuckerberg Apologizes For Data Privacy Scandal
NEW YORK (CBS SF/AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally apologized Wednesday evening for weaknesses in the social network’s policies that enabled an app to gain access to the personal information...
View ArticleWhat Facebook’s Privacy Policy Allows May Surprise You
NEW YORK (AP) — To get an idea of the data Facebook collects about you, just ask for it. You’ll get a file with every photo and comment you’ve posted, all the ads you’ve clicked on, stuff you’ve liked...
View ArticleUnder Armour Data Breach Affects 150M MyFitnessPal App Users
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore-based Under Armour says around 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal fitness and nutrition app and website have been affected by a data security breach. The Baltimore Sun...
View ArticleMired In Distrust, Facebook Users Lie On Profiles, Put Tape Over Cameras In...
MENLO PARK (KPIX 5) — Facebook is telling its users whether they were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. For many Facebook users the breach has intensified their distrust of the platform....
View ArticleFTC: Uber Suffered Large Data Breach In 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Federal investigators criticized ride-sharing giant Uber Thursday for failing to disclose that it had a large data breach in 2016 while it was already under investigation by...
View ArticleCompany Formerly Known As Yahoo Pays $35M Fine Over 2014 Hack
WASHINGTON (AP) — The company formerly known as Yahoo is paying a $35 million fine to resolve federal regulators’ charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the...
View ArticleEquifax: Names, Addresses, Driver’s Licenses Were All Stolen In Breach
WASHINGTON, DC (CBS Local) – Equifax is coming clean on just how devastating the 2017 data breach really was. In a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), officials for the...
View ArticleNew California Law Requires Voter Data Breach Reporting
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Journalists, researchers and political campaigns that receive voter data must tell California officials if it may have been stolen under a new law Gov. Jerry Brown announced...
View ArticleAG: Uber Attempted To Sweep Massive Data ‘Breach Under The Rug’
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco-based ride-hailing service Uber has reached a $148 million settlement over allegations that it violated state data breach reporting and data security laws,...
View ArticleYahoo To Pay $50M, Other Costs For Massive Security Breach
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and other personal information...
View ArticleData Breach May Involve Personal Information Of 500 Million Marriott Guests
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A massive security breach may have involved the personal information of 500 million Marriott hotel guests since 2014 including those who stayed in the more than a dozen lodging...
View ArticleGoogle+ To Close Early After New Bug Affecting 52M People Discovered
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF / CNN) — Mountian View-based Google will shut down its Google+ social network much sooner than planned after discovering a second bug that revealed millions of customers’ private...
View ArticleFacebook Reveals Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users’ Photos
MENLO PARK (CBS SF / CNN) — Facebook announced on Friday that the Menlo Park-based social network had exposed the private photos of millions of users without their permission. The company said a bug...
View ArticleBevMo Website Breach Affects Thousands Of Customers’ Credit Data
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thousands of customers’ credit card data was compromised during a data breach of BevMo’s website, according to a notice filed to the California Attorney General’s Office....
View ArticleCalifornia Consumer Data Privacy Protections Expanded Under Proposed Law
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF/AP) — California consumers would have more power to sue corporations for misusing their data under a proposal to expand what already is the nation’s most far-reaching law protecting...
View ArticleHundreds Of Millions Of Facebook Records Exposed On Amazon Cloud Servers
MENLO PARK (CBS SF / CNN) — A vast collection of data on Facebook users was exposed to the public until recently on Amazon’s cloud computing service, researchers have found. UpGuard, a cybersecurity...
View ArticleYahoo Tries Again To Settle Lawsuit Over Massive Data Breaches For $118M
SUNNYVALE (CBS SF / CNN) — Yahoo could pay $117.5 million to settle massive data breaches that compromised personal information, including email addresses and passwords. The proposed settlement from...
View ArticleYahoo Reaches $117.5 Million Settlement In Huge Data Breach
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS News) — Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential...
View ArticleFacebook Collected 1.5 Million Users’ Email Contacts Without Their Knowledge
MENLO PARK (CBS SF / CNN) — Facebook has admitted that it collected up to 1.5 million users’ email contacts without their consent, in the latest privacy issue to hit the giant tech firm headquartered...
View ArticleFacebook: More Instagram Passwords Exposed Than First Thought
MENLO PARK (CBS / AP) — Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly four weeks ago. The Menlo Park-based social media giant...
View ArticleCalifornia Real Estate Title Firm Lapse Exposes Personal Data in 885 Million...
SANTA ANA (AP) — A security lapse at a major real estate title company exposed the bank account numbers and other sensitive information contained in 885 million files. First American Financial...
View ArticleMassive Hack Exposes Personal Data Of Millions Of Quest Diagnostic Lab Patients
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The personal information of millions of Quest Diagnostics lab patients may have fallen into the hands of hackers. The massive data breach impacts nearly 12 million patients....
View ArticleEquifax Reaches $700M Settlement In Data Breach; 15M Californians May Be...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF / AP) — Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly...
View ArticleNetflix Documentary ‘The Great Hack’ Explores Cambridge Analytica Scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset, according to the new Netflix documentary, The Great Hack. But we don’t exactly know where it all goes, who wants it,...
View ArticleFTC Fines Facebook $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations
MENLO PARK (CBS SF/AP) — Federal regulators have fined Menlo Park-based Facebook a record $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they...
View ArticlePersonal Data Of 100 Million Capital One Credit Card Customers Hacked
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The personal information of 100 million Capital One account holders in the United States and Canada was obtained by a hacker who has been arrested by the FBI. Capital One...
View ArticleDoorDash Discloses Data Breach Impacting 4.9 Million People
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF / CNN) — Bay Area-based food delivery company DoorDash confirmed it suffered a data breach affecting roughly 4.9 million delivery people and merchants. In a blog post on Thursday,...
View ArticleEx-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty To Hacking Thousands Of Accounts For Sexual...
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A former Yahoo software engineer pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to hacking into thousands of Yahoo users’ personal accounts, primarily in search of sexual images and videos,...
View ArticleAG Xavier Becerra Helps Secure $17.5M Settlement With Home Depot Over Massive...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) – Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday announced a multistate $17.5 million settlement with The Home Depot, six years after a massive data breach impacted tens of millions of...
View ArticlePersonal Data for Half-Billion Facebook Users Found on Hacker Website
MENLO PARK (AP) — Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. The information appears to be several years old but it is another example of the...
View ArticleCOVID: CSU Chico Data Breach Leaks Student Requests For Religious Exemptions
CHICO (AP) — Personal information from students at California State University, Chico who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach....
View ArticlePersonal Data of Thousands of Sonoma County Agencies’ Clients Possibly Hacked
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) — The personal data of 2,347 clients of three Sonoma County agencies may have been exposed during a breach of a county contractor’s network, county officials said Wednesday. An...
View ArticleState Bar of California Investigates Huge Data Breach That Exposed...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The State Bar of California announced Saturday that is investigating a data breach of confidential attorney discipline it discovered had been posted online Thursday. A public...
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