Customers trust banking most with personal information
44 per cent of the customers feel most comfortable sharing personal information with banking companies. With that, the sector enjoys the most trust in our country.
This is according to a survey by Thales among more than 12,000 customers. Other trusted institutions are active in healthcare (41%) ... Read more
‘T-Mobile admits second data breach since the start of 2023’
The US subsidiary of the German telecoms giant has suffered its second hack of the year - and the year is not even half over yet.
This week T-Mobile (US) admitted that it had suffered its second data breach of 2023. BleepingComputer has reported the breach after seeing a copy of the data breach ... Read more
Cybercriminal steals data of 37 million T-Mobile customers
The US branch of T-Mobile has been hit by a cyberattack. The personal data of 37 million customers was stolen.
According to an official statement, a cybercriminal managed to break into T-Mobile's systems via an API. In August 2021, a prior incident leaked the data of 48 million customers.
Th... Read more
‘Apple tracks personal information despite claiming it doesn’t’
Two iOS security researchers have discovered that Apple's claim of protecting iPhone users' privacy is far from true.
A Twitter post by Tommy Mysk and Tala Haj Bakry alleges that Apple tracks users via an identifier referred to as 'Direct Services Identifier' (DSID).
Apple requests analytica... Read more
Google’s new app helps users remove personal information from search results
Google released 'Results About You', a feature that broadens the types of personal information customers can request to be deleted from Search Engine results, including phone numbers, physical addresses and email addresses.
Last spring, Google announced that the functionality would be available ... Read more