Data privacy dominated the week of news ending Feb. 1. News headlines included both Facebook and Google finding themselves in hot water over distributing data-sucking apps on iOS devices. A severe flaw was also found in kid-tracking IoT smartwatches that could expose sensitive information for 35,000 children.
Also this week was a new data dump of 2.2 billion compromised credentials discovered on the Dark Web, This was labeled “Collections #2-5.”
Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals discuss these top news stories and more in this week’s Threatpost news wrap.
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