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Comcast Xfinity published the contact details of 200,000 customers who paid for them to be kept private

Nearly 200,000 customers in the United States, who thought they were paying Comcast Xfinity to keep their information safely out of the public eye, have had their details exposed on the company’s online directory… putting their safety and privacy at risk.

Graham Cluley

Child sexual abuse inquiry fined £200000 for data breach

  1. Child sexual abuse inquiry fined £200000 for data breach  Sky News
  2. Abuse inquiry fined £200000 for email data breach  BBC News
  3. Inquiry into child sexual abuse fined £200k after data breach  Irish Times
  4. Full coverage

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Poisoned plugin allowed hackers to post spammy content on up to 200,000 WordPress websites

Poisoned plugin allowed hackers to post spammy content on up to 200,000 WordPress websites

As many as 200,000 websites may have been running a WordPress plugin that allowed third parties to publish any content they wished on victims’ sites via a backdoor. Watch out for supply chain attacks that could impact your website…

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Google Increases Critical Security Flaw Payout to $200000 – Go Android Apps (blog)

Google Increases Critical Security Flaw Payout to $ 200000
Go Android Apps (blog)
If you have an Android device, you might be interested in the critical security flaw reward that Google is now offering. The reward has been increased to $ 200,000 and it is a cash reward that any security researcher can claim if they find any critical

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