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Retail Asia27/03/2023

McDonald’s Korea was given a fine of 696 million won ($532,110) on Wednesday after the personal data of 4.87 million customers was leaked to hackers due to the firm’s lax data management. The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out the fine to the Korean branch of the American fast food chain, along with a financial […]

Retail Asia11/03/2020

Last year, Facebook received a penalty of $5 billion by the American Federal Trade Commission for sharing personal information via a survey product called “This Is Your Digital Life”, which disclosed users’ Facebook data to a political consultant Cambridge Analytica. Now, an Australian privacy regulator is filing a lawsuit against the tech giant over the […]

Retail Asia04/01/2018

A Forever 21 data breach uncovered last November has prompted the fashion retailer to boost security at its checkout counters. In the security scare, hackers installed malware on point-of-sale machines at store checkouts in the US. A two-month long investigation has revealed that encryption technology on some POS devices at an unspecified number of stores […]

Retail Asia12/04/2016

The Philippines’ 55 million voters are now susceptible to fraud and other risks after a massive data breach leaked the entire database of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), security firm Trend Micro has warned. The defacement of the Comelec website by a hacker group called Anonymous Philippines happened at near midnight on March 27. In […]

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McDonald’s Korea fined for breach of customers’ personal data

Facebook in legal battle with Australia over alleged user data breach

Forever 21 investigating POS security breach

Massive data breach exposes all Philippines voters