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Mint Mobile Was Hit by a Data Breach

Heimadal Security

It seems that the Mint Mobile data breach happened when an unauthorized person obtained access to subscribers’ account information and in this way succeeded to port phone numbers to another carrier. The post Mint Mobile Was Hit by a Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who Owns Our Personal Data? The cat site?