Tagged: data breach

May 29, 2025 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant cybersecurity incident, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a prominent data broker, disclosed that the personal information of approximately 364,000 individuals was compromised in a data breach that occurred in December 2024. The breach, which has raised alarms about the security of sensitive personal data,… Read More

August 11, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid is pleased to announce the inclusion of data breach reports into Plaid Beacon, which is their anti-fraud consortium, in order to “help organizations of all sizes better protect themselves and their users from fraud and abuse.” As noted in a blog post by Plaid,… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The severity of data breach risks rose to the highest level in two years during the first quarter of 2024, increasing 31% from the same period last year. TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) unveiled its analysis of data breach trends while also introducing the company’s new identity… Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has experienced a major data breach that has reportedly exposed the sensitive personal details of around 50,000 clients globally. Revolut‘s management has now informed Lithuania’s State Data Protection Inspectorate about the security breach, noting that access to its database had been obtained via advanced… Read More

April 11, 2021 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent post on Raidforums, a marketplace for purchasing and selling stolen data, has claimed that it has the personal details from millions of users on Paxful, a leading peer to peer Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) exchange. However, Paxful‘s management stated that they’re false… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Web 3.0 related projects Mysterium Network and Sentinel have established an alliance that will focus on protecting Internet users from data hacks, cybercrime, and excessive surveillance activities while they’re conducting activities online. According to a release, the new “decentralized” VPN (dVPN) alliance is currently open… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesia based Tokopedia, an e-commerce marketplace that had announced a $1.5 billion funding round from Softbank, Alibaba, Temasek back in January 2020, has introduced Dhanapala, a standalone or independent peer to peer (P2P) Fintech lending platform. The Dhanapala app is currently available for download to… Read More

March 21, 2019 @ 5:20 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Tide Foundation just launched a data marketplace aimed at making privacy profitable. Tide’s blockchain protocol seeks to address costly GDPR compliance, compensation and data accuracy issues to drive a new consensual data economy. “While we all deserve a human right to privacy, we’re witnessing the disastrous results of… Read More