Tagged: data breach

Fintech Plaid Announces Data Breach Reports to Help Firms Combat Fraudulent Activities

Plaid is pleased to announce the inclusion of data breach reports into Plaid Beacon, which is their anti-fraud consortium, in order to “help organizations of all sizes better protect themselves and their users from fraud and abuse.” As noted in a blog post by Plaid,… Read More

Data Breach Severity Increased Over 30% in Q1 2024, Research Report Claims

The severity of data breach risks rose to the highest level in two years during the first quarter of 2024, increasing 31% from the same period last year. TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) unveiled its analysis of data breach trends while also introducing the company’s new identity… Read More

Neobank Revolut Security Breach Exposes Data of 50,000+ Clients Worldwide

Revolut has experienced a major data breach that has reportedly exposed the sensitive personal details of around 50,000 clients globally. Revolut‘s management has now informed Lithuania’s State Data Protection Inspectorate about the security breach, noting that access to its database had been obtained via advanced… Read More

P2P Bitcoin, Ethereum Exchange Paxful Denies there Was Data Leak, Confirms User Data and Funds Remain Safe

A recent post on Raidforums, a marketplace for purchasing and selling stolen data, has claimed that it has the personal details from millions of users on Paxful, a leading peer to peer Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) exchange. However, Paxful‘s management stated that they’re false… Read More

Web 3.0 Projects Mysterium Network and Sentinel Form Alliance to Protect Users from Data Hacks, Cybercrime, Surveillance Activities

Web 3.0 related projects Mysterium Network and Sentinel have established an alliance that will focus on protecting Internet users from data hacks, cybercrime, and excessive surveillance activities while they’re conducting activities online. According to a release, the new “decentralized” VPN (dVPN) alliance is currently open… Read More

Tokopedia Introduces P2P Lending Platform, As Indonesian Government Investigates How Millions of Company’s Customer Data Records were Compromised

Indonesia based Tokopedia, an e-commerce marketplace that had announced a $1.5 billion funding round from Softbank, Alibaba, Temasek back in January 2020, has introduced Dhanapala, a standalone or independent peer to peer (P2P) Fintech lending platform. The Dhanapala app is currently available for download to… Read More

Tide Foundation Co-Founders Yuval Hertzog & Issac Elnekave Address Privacy Profitability, Marketplaces and Mass Blockchain Adoption

Tide Foundation just launched a data marketplace aimed at making privacy profitable. Tide’s blockchain protocol seeks to address costly GDPR compliance, compensation and data accuracy issues to drive a new consensual data economy. “While we all deserve a human right to privacy, we’re witnessing the disastrous results of… Read More

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