Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Media Giant Reports Broadcast Outages Nationwide; Investigation is Ongoing Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., The company says the attack has impacted its ability to deliver advertisements and certain programming. which owns or operates 186 television stations across 87 U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

On September 14, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release announcing the publication of a staff paper about blurred advertising. In the staff paper, the FTC describes blurred advertising as the blending of ads with digital media content ( e.g., displaying ads within online games and virtual reality worlds).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s time to rethink the relationship between marketers, media companies (not “content creators,” ick), and the audience. I’m heading into a bit of media theory for the next couple thousand words – I hope this will start an interesting conversation. The Old Media Model. More on that later on.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Media reported [ 1 , 2 ] that the company is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach. TechCrunch reported that the company confirmed it shared patients’ information with third-party organizations, including Google, Microsoft and X, for advertising purposes.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 16, 2022

com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising ” (the “Guidance”). What research or other information regarding the online marketplace, online advertising techniques, consumer online behavior, or consumer mobile behavior should the staff consider in revising its online advertising guidance document?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I don’t miss it – it was already a pretty toxic place, and my tenure at The Recount , a political media company, ensured I had to engage with most of Twitter’s worst attributes. It’s normal for a new social media platform to launch without ads, but Threads is a social media platform from Meta , after all.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Creators and influencers on Meta’s platforms are an obvious market for verified users’ monthly fees Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire is built on billions of users – and the advertisers who pay vast sums to grab their attention. But that business model is under pressure on several fronts. Continue reading.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The social media site X announced that it will collect premium users’ biometric data for security and identification purposes. The social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) has updated its privacy policy informing its premium users that the company will collect their biometric data to curb fraud and prevent impersonation.

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The Guardian Data Protection

AUGUST 2, 2023

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will stop harvesting audience data to create profiles for advertisers after regulatory rulings Facebook and Instagram are to ask EU users for permission to show them personalised adverts, in a concession that challenges the platforms’ core money-making strategy. Continue reading.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

For less than a dollar per day, Faceless customers can route their malicious traffic through tens of thousands of compromised systems advertised on the service. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 29, 2020

How Brands Can Fix the Relationship Between Platforms, Audiences, and Media Companies (Hint: It’s Not a Boycott). The first post reviews the media and platform ecosystem, and laments the role brand marketers have played in its demise.) . In response, Twitter adopted a media-company friendly solution they called Twitter Amplify.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 19, 2022

On July 6, 2022, the Better Business Bureau National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (“CARU”) announced that it had found Outright Games in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and CARU’s Self-Regulatory Guidelines for Advertising and Guidelines for Children’s Online Privacy Protection.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to German media , one of the two operators was also involved in the operations of the site mega-downloads.net. Movie2k was a platform involved in the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted movies, TV shows, and other media content. It was operating between 2008 and 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 19, 2024

On January 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed order against geolocation data broker InMarket Media (“InMarket”), barring the company from selling or licensing precise location data. InMarket then used data from this analysis to sort consumers into audience segments for targeted advertising.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Empower social media platform users and researchers to review who and what exactly is being advertised on Facebook. Based on our analysis of the sample data, consumers need interventions that will: Reduce the overall amount of tracking. Improve the transparency of Facebook’s existing tools. And then the report gives specifics.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Researchers at Qurium Media Foundation published a report that provides insight on how Sandvine DPI performs the blocking, and how it can be detected. Qurium forensics report: How operators use Sandvine to block independent media in Egypt. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

Until recently, AT&T also shared CPNI data with Xandr , whose privacy policy in turn explains that it shares data with hundreds of other advertising firms. EPIC says T-Mobile customer data sold to third parties uses another unique identifier called mobile advertising IDs or “ MAIDs.”

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Exclusive: national and local governments using targeted ads on search engines and social media A new form of “influence government”, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been “supercharged” by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

At the time I had just soft-landed The Recount and was licking three decades of wounds related to launching, running, selling and shuttering digital media startups. Here was a guy claiming he was going to solve all of digital media’s woes with…what exactly? “Polyperspectivity”?! (No,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At the center of the account ban wave are some of the most active members of OGUsers , a forum that caters to thousands of people selling access to hijacked social media and other online accounts. THE MIDDLEMEN. Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

In addition to facilitating the sale of hacked accounts at video streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and social media platforms like Facebook , Twitter and Vkontakte (the Russian equivalent of Facebook), deer.io also is a favored marketplace for people involved in selling phony social media accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

Fingerprinting makes it difficult for irresponsible parties to create fake accounts or social media pages. Rather than for logging online activities, online fingerprinting becomes a way to track users for advertising and other commercial purposes. At the same time, the profile that advertisers can create reveals a lot.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 6, 2023

an online mental health counseling service, for sharing consumer data, including sensitive mental health information, with third parties for targeted advertising and other purposes. The proposed order, if approved, would: Prohibit BetterHelp from sharing consumers’ health data for advertising purposes; Require BetterHelp to pay $7.8

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

Once the cybercriminals hijacked the account, renamed it to @phantomsolw, then started advertising a rogue website impersonating the Phantom crypto service. ” reads a statement sent by a Mandiant spokesperson to several media outlets. Today Mandiant had their Twitter account stolen. “Sorry, change password please.”

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 26, 2022

US regulators said social media firm gave advertisers information collected for security purposes Twitter has been fined $150m (£119m) by US authorities after collecting users’ email addresses and phone numbers for security purposes but then using the data to target them with adverts.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 8, 2022

On March 1, 2022, President Biden, in his first State of the Union address, called on Congress to strengthen privacy protections for children, including by banning online platforms from excessive data collection and targeted advertising for children and young people.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2021

The Recolor app provides images that users can digitally color on their mobile devices and social media features that allow users to upload images for others to view, comment on, and like. The FTC alleged that some children, including those under 13, were able to register for an account with the app and use the app’s social media features.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Threat actors compromised a media company to deliver FakeUpdates malware through the websites of hundreds of newspapers in the US. Researchers at Proofpoint Threat Research observed threat actor TA569 intermittently injecting malicious code on a media company that serves many major news outlets.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 8, 2024

By way of recap, this model gives users of online services the choice to either consent to personalised advertising using their data or to pay a fee to access an ad-free version of the service. Earlier this week the ICO launched a call for views on the “pay or okay” business model.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had issued orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, requesting information on how the companies collect, use and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices and how their practices affect children and teens.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The FTC Complaint According to the FTC’s complaint—which BetterHelp neither admits nor denies—from 2013 through 2020, BetterHelp developed, advertised and sold an online counseling service that matched users seeking therapy with BetterHelp’s therapists, and facilitated counseling with BetterHelp’s websites and apps. FTC File No.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. E27 described itself as Asia’s largest Tech media platform, it offers Asian technology startup news and a community where members can exchange opinions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

During the past weeks Qurium Media Foundation and Human Constanta, a human rights NGO in Belarus, have been monitoring an increase of latency against the Telegram network from Belarus. About the authors: Digital forensics: Tord Lundström, Qurium Media Foundation t@virtualroad.org Media: Clara Zid, Qurium Media Foundation info@virtualroad.org.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

This isn’t the first attack that targeted French media, in 2019 ransomware operators hit the M6 ??group The attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media accounts of the French broadcaster. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Turns out that with link taxes , content moderation nightmares, advertising blacklists, and consumer fatigue, “news” is just more trouble than its worth for our modern attention merchants. Then again, social media didn’t exist in 2003, and while print media was on the decline, it wasn’t yet considered dead and buried.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 17, 2023

On May 4, 2023, the Florida Senate and House of Representatives voted in favor of sending the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”) and other amendments related to government moderation of social media and protection of children in online spaces ( S.B. Government Moderation of Social Media S.B. Related Statutory Amendments in S.B.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

An idea has been tugging at me for months now, one I’ve spent countless hours discussing and debating with leaders in marketing, media, and journalism. ” And the rise of social media has, indeed, given everyone with a voice an opportunity to speak. Why “information equity” matters.

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