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MCdonald Cups
Food
1 min read

McDonald’s Korea fined for breach of customers’ personal data

McDonald’s Korea was given a fine of 696 million won ($532,110) on Wednesday after the personal data of 4.87 million customers was leaked to hackers due to the firm’s lax data management. The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out the fine to…

Facebook Vietnam
General
1 min read

Facebook in legal battle with Australia over alleged user data breach

Last year, Facebook received a penalty of $5 billion by the American Federal Trade Commission for sharing personal information via a survey product called “This Is Your Digital Life”, which disclosed users’ Facebook data to a political consultant Cambridge…

forever21
Fashion
1 min read

Forever 21 investigating POS security breach

A Forever 21 data breach uncovered last November has prompted the fashion retailer to boost security at its checkout counters. In the security scare, hackers installed malware on point-of-sale machines at store checkouts in the US. A two-month long…

after data breach
Telecom
2 min read

Massive data breach exposes all Philippines voters

The Philippines’ 55 million voters are now susceptible to fraud and other risks after a massive data breach leaked the entire database of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), security firm Trend Micro has warned. The defacement of the Comelec website by a…