After breach of billions of records, National Public Data files for bankruptcy | Cybernews
National Public Data, a company responsible for a massive leak of Social Security numbers in the summer, has filed for bankruptcy. That's unsurprising.
Major US car rental breach exposes hundreds of thousands
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals. Malicious actors breached Avis systems on August 3rd and roamed inside the system for three days until the company secured its networks. The company’s data breach notification letter, submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, states that Avis discovered the breach on August 5th, indicating it took at least one day to kick the malicious actors out.
US sues TikTok for collecting mass data on kids 13 and under
The US government is suing TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over “widespread” privacy violations that it illegally collects data on kids 13 and under.