Europcar car rental was fined €54,000 for illegally collecting personal data. The Hamburg, Germany Commissioner for data protection and freedom of information fined Europcar €54,000, after receiving a complaint about this issue. Investigations revealed that the company was tracking the location of a fleet of 1,300 cars without the customers’ consent, which is considered illegal…
Category: Breaches
Skype privacy bug sends messages to other contacts
Zack Whittaker reports: Skype users are taking to its support forums to warn that some instant messages from one contact are being sent to an unintended recipient on that user’s contact list. It appears the bug may have stemmed from a Skype upgrade last month, according to the support thread. Read more on CNET.
Charges dropped against man accused of reading wife’s e-mail; she snooped, too
Wow. After two years of following a case where an ex-husband was charged with a felony for snooping on his ex-wife’s email, I just read that the case was dropped at the 11th hour. L.L. Brasier reports: Prosecutors dropped felony charges Friday against a Rochester Hills man accused of snooping in his wife’s e-mail after…
Instagram bug ‘exposed’ hipsters’ private photos to strangers
John Leyden reports: A just-patched vulnerability in Instagram potentially exposed hipsters’ private photos and more to strangers. A bug in the popular photo touch-up utility, acquired by Facebook in April for $1bn, allowed malicious users to add themselves as “friends” to individual accounts without permission and view snaps marked as private. In a security advisory, Instagram…