Data protection articles
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Dell data breach exposes data of 49 million customers
Dell Technologies has sent out emails to its customers, warning them of a data breach that potentially exposed the information of approximately 49 million customers. The emails come days after a threat actor called Menelik claimed the breach on BreachForums and offered to sell “data for 49 million customers and other information systems purchased from Dell between 2017-2024." “We are currently investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of...
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Journalists should report on lax oversight of research data, says data sleuth
Uri Simonsohn, a behavioral scientist who coauthors the Data Colada blog, urges reporters to ask researchers about preregistration and expose opportunities for fraud.
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Elon Musk's X loses lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping
A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data, and said X "wants it both ways."