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A compilation of more than 3.2 billion unique pairs of emails and passwords was recently leaked on a popular hacking forum according to a report last month from Cybernews.
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The ShinyHunters hacking group offer a raft of information, from location and contact info to dating preferences and bodily descriptions, as a free download.
More than 2.28 million members of the online dating site MeetMindful have reportedly been caught up in a wide-ranging data breach that exposes everything from Facebook tokens to physical characteristics.
The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen and published the personally identifiable (PII) data of MeetMindful users, according to a report from ZDNet. The data has been made available as a free download on a “publicly accessible hacking forum known for its trade in hacked databases,” according to a security researcher speaking anonymously to the outlet.
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WhatsApp aimed to clear the air about its updated privacy policy after reports of mandatory data sharing with Facebook drove users to Signal and Telegram in troves.
WhatsApp is making explicit clarifications around its updated privacy policy, after reports ran amok about the messaging app mandating all-encompassing data-sharing with parent company Facebook.
The app’s new privacy policy and terms of service, which will go into effect Feb. 8, says that WhatsApp will share certain data with Facebook, along with other Facebook products. These updates, announced last week, sparked widespread ire from users, who feared WhatsApp would mandate all data including private user data to be shared with Facebook – and caused a mass exodus from the app onto competing apps, including Telegram and Signal.
With deaths related to the coronavirus continuing to rise globally, the race between big pharma’s research departments has forced those companies to pump funds into a cause that may prove entirely fruitless.
“There will of course be winners and losers in the race to find a vaccine,” according to Dr Nicholas Jones, partner and patent attorney at Withers & Rogers, which specialises in pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. “Winners can expect some commercial reward for their efforts. However, margins could be minimal for some players and could even be non-existent in some cases,” he said, via email.
Earlier this month, the UK government accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in approving the Pfizer and BioNtech coronavirus vaccine