Over the past week, I’ve been contacted by a number of people. Some have contacted me to say that they see what has been going on with the harassment and threats I have received and they are touching base to make sure that I am okay (I am, thank you). Some have contacted me to…
Category: Breaches
Ola Customer Sends Takedown Notice to Company For Publishing Telemetric Data on Social Media
News18 reports: A customer has sent a takedown notice to Ola Electric for publishing the electric two-scooter’s telemetry data on social media, after the e-scooter met with an accident in Guwahati, injuring the rider. Balwant Singh from Guwahati had tweeted on April 15 that his son had met with an accident “due to fault in…
Report: Hackers Have Been Sexually Extorting Kids With Data Stolen From Tech Giants
Lucas Ropek reports: Cybercriminals have been sexually extorting children and women using data stolen from large tech companies, according to a new report. Apple, Twitter, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Discord, Meta, and Snap Inc. have all recently handed over sensitive user information to criminals, which has frequently been used to hack into victims’ accounts or…
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
Zack Whittaker reports: Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brougcht by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal…