Lawyers for the Department of Immigration were unable to detail in court the processes by which the department was dealing with people in detention who had their personal details disclosed in a massive data breach.
It raised the very real risk of a massive data breach if an official lost a laptop or a database was hacked, undermining trust in public services, said Ruchir Shah, SCVO's head of policy and research.
Sony has been hit by a second massive data breach, hackers claim, another potential embarrassment for a company that is struggling to restore its image following the loss of millions of credit card numbers through its PlayStation Network.
The terms of service of hacked extramarital dating service Ashley Madison allow the company to run fake accounts, protecting it from at least some user lawsuits in the wake of its massive data breach in August.
A federal circuit court judge has reserved his decision on whether a case involving a group of asylum seekers who were named in a massive data breach will continue to a full hearing.
The Department of Immigration is writing to asylum seekers detained across Australia to inform them their personal details were publicly disclosed in a massive data breach, with sources alleging the department is coercing them to sign for receipt of the letter.
Did any of them know that the data that Cambridge Analytica was using to target voters, craft ads and blog posts, and determine Trump's travel schedule came from millions of American Facebook members whose data had been taken without consent and sold for a million dollars — what Cadwalladr is calling a massive data "breach"?
The data protection authorities also wrote to Yahoo over its massive data breach that exposed the email credentials of 500 million users in 2014, as well as its scanning of customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials.
The Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and US government employee records, with suspicion quickly falling on China, which has been accused of carrying out cyber-espionage against the US in the past.
Krebs, who posted about the hack's outcome today and has revealed details of other major hacks including the massive data breach at Target, said the danger from this particular hack had to do not just with the nature of the information but with public shaming culture.
