(Natural News) The government of the United Kingdom is pushing ahead with its planned rollout of a nationwide digital ID system. It will start this month with the launch of a system for verifying digital IDs and a portal where uploaded credentials can easily be accessed. On April 6, the British government is expected to […]

(Natural News) Did you or someone you know ever get tested for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) at a Walgreens pharmacy location? If so, you should probably know that your personal information, including test results, may have been stolen by hackers. Your name, birthday, “gender identity,” phone number, address and email could have been one of […]

(Natural News) A data breach in Indonesia has exposed the personal records of more than a million Indonesians who were required by the government to use a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) tracking app. The leak came from the electronic health alert card (eHAC) app. eHAC was mandatory for anyone entering Indonesia from abroad and for anybody […]

(Natural News) Northern Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH) has temporarily halted its coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine certification online service following a data exposure incident, underscoring the risks of entrusting health data to the government. According to the DoH, some users of the COVIDCert NI service were presented with data of other users under certain circumstances. It said that a […]

(Natural News) For the second time this year, Microsoft-owned social networking and employment service LinkedIn has experienced a data breach. According to Ben Lovejoy, tech journalist for 9to5Mac, a hacker exposed the personal data of around 700 million users. This represents around 92 percent of the platform’s more than 756 million total users. The data breach was […]

(Natural News) More than one billion customer records at CVS Health were released to the public due to what experts believe was an accidental “cloud storage misconfiguration.” Once again highlighting the serious risks involved with electronic medical records, a vendor of CVS Health apparently uploaded the records into the system without creating any type of […]

(Natural News) Security researchers have discovered what looks to be a sophisticated scheme by Amazon vendors to procure fake reviews for their products. A team at cybersecurity company SafetyDetectives found a China-based Elastisearch server containing direct messages between Amazon vendors and customers running fake review schemes for free products. The details of the scheme were exposed […]

(Natural News) Google is being sued over a security flaw in Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) contact tracing apps that use a key technology it co-developed with Apple. The lawsuit alleges that the security flaw exposes Android users’ personal information to scores of third parties. Plaintiffs Jonathan Diaz and Lewis Bornmann filed the class-action lawsuit on April 27, Tuesday, in California federal court. The […]

(Natural News) A spokesperson for Facebook revealed that the tech giant did not notify the more than 500 million users whose personal data was stolen and distributed online. The spokesperson also said that the tech giant currently has no plans of ever informing them of the privacy breach. The social media firm chose not to notify affected users because it doubted […]

(Natural News) The personal data of more than 500 million Facebook users became public following a breach on the social media platform. On April 3, a member of a low-level hacking forum published the data – containing phone numbers, full names, email addresses and other information. The breach compromised over 533 million users from 106 […]