Timehop admits to more data leakage, details GDPR danger

Timehop admits to more data leakage, details GDPR danger

Bad actor was inside social network for months without being detected

By Simon Sharwood

Nostalgia aggregator Timehop has revised its advice about the data breach it reported earlier this week.

The news is bad in two dimensions, the first of which is that the company has found more data was accessed. Updates to its oops! post has now added “dates of birth, gender [and] country codes” to the list of lost information, in addition to names email addresses and phone numbers. After “closer examination of forensics and logs” the company has also revised its estimates of lost records and added an analysis of how many put it on the wrong side of GDPR.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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