Tea, App and data breach
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On Friday, June 20, US District Judge Ada Brown granted preliminary approval to the terms of a proposed settlement from AT&T that would resolve two lawsuits related to the data breaches. The current settlement would see AT&T pay $177 million to customers adversely affected by at least one of the two data breaches.
If you receive notice of a data breach by mail, follow the advice in the letter and take it seriously. You should be on the lookout for phishing attacks and regularly check your Experian, TransUnion and Equifax credit reports for unauthorized accounts opened in your name.
A vulnerability in the Tea app has been discovered that allowed users to download the personal information of everyone on the app.
The Office of Data Protection (ODPA) has reported 129 data breaches in 2024, with the majority coming from emails sent to the wrong person. The statistics have been revealed in the authority's annual report for last year. Another breach related to a member of the public finding an unencrypted USB storage device, which contained personal data.
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