Data breach

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It has been a withering time for the airlines, whose unused planes moulder in a gruelling waiting game of survival.  The receivers are smacking their lips; administration has become a reality for many.  Governments across the globe dispute what measures to ease in response to the coronavirus pandemic; travel has been largely suspended; and the hope is that some viable form will resume at some point soon.

A 'software glitch' gave outside developers potential access to private Google + profiles that included users’ names, email addresses, birthdays, genders, general locations, occupations, relationship statuses, and photos. Google is now shutting down Google +.

Facebook detected a data breach that allows hackers to take over a user's account through a vulnerability in its “View As” feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else. This allowed hackers to steal access tokens that can be used to take over users' accounts.

Just hours after Equifax CEO Rick Smith wrapped up his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce committee – the first in a series of Congressional “fact-finding missions” about the hack – Politico reported that the IRS last week awarded the disgraced credit monitoring bureau with a $7.25 no-bid contract even as the company struggled to address suspicions that it mislead investors and customers by withholding information about one of the most damaging data breaches in US

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials at Equifax violated insider trading laws when they sold stock before the company disclosed that it had been hacked, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Equifax disclosed earlier this month that it discovered a security breach on July 29. The three executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in early August. The company has said the managers didn’t know of the breach at the time they sold the shares.

The Equifax hack could affect 143 million Americans, exposing their Social-Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and credit-card numbers. [...]