Local Anonymous Message Board App ‘Yik Yak’ Exposes Precise Locations of its Users

The local anonymous message board app, Yik Yak has reportedly been revealing the precise locations and unique IDs associated with its users. The revealed data was discovered by David Teather, a computer science student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who disclosed the issue to Yik Yak on April 11. The company addressed part of the […]

1.5 Billion Facebook Users’ Data Was Allegedly Put Up for Sale Amid Global Outage

In recent events of the global outage, 1.5 billion Facebook users’ data was supposedly put up for sale after a recent leak. A member of a recognized forum for hackers declared to have the data in late September and attempted to sell it in chunks to others on the forum, as per a report from Privacy […]

Microsoft Surface Pro 8 Specifications Leak Ahead of its Launch

According to recent news, the specifications of the much-awaited Microsoft Surface Pro 8 have been leaked just two days ahead of its respective launch event. These leaks came around in the form of pictures which were a store listing of the Surface Pro 8 from a Chinese shop that verifies a few specifications for the […]

Facebook understates data breaches and it’s severity in internal emails

Recovering from the last month’s massive leak of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the famous social media platform has a new privacy concern to fight with: a vulnerability that, on a large scale, connects the accounts with their associated email addresses, even when the users select the settings to prevent them from […]

Clubhouse CEO says user data was not exposed, contrary to reports

Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison has denied recently published reports stating that the personal data of 1.3 million users were exposed via the app. The CEO made the remarks while a town hall on the iOS-centric audio chat app in acknowledgment of a question from a user. According to a report, Davison was recorded announcing that […]

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