Jam Kotenko reports: When Facebook came clean about a recent security bug that caused the exposure of 6 million users’ personal information to their contacts, they softened the blow by saying that the effect of the bug was probably minimal, since the people who likely received their friends’ data could have already had access to the contact…
Category: Breaches
Senators Question EPA’s Motives for Data Sharing Panel, Want Better Protection of Individual Citizens’ Private Data
In response to concerns over the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of livestock producers’ personal information (previously described here and here), the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works issued this press release last week: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Sens. John Thune…
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Six Million Email Addresses and Telephone Numbers
Kara Swisher reports: Facebook reported on Friday a bug in its system “that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them.” The bug, which was reported via Facebook’s crowdsourced, White Hat security researcher program,…
Did they ask Google?
Cryptome was visited by the U.S. Secret Service this week over personal information about former President G. W. Bush’s family that had been hacked and leaked online by “Guccifer.” As Cryptome notes, although Cryptome removed the list, the original source of Cryptome’s mirror of the Bush family contact list is still online. I checked the…