Music equipment marketplace reverb.com is alleged to have suffered a massive data leak, of around 5.6 million records. Security consultant Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko writes on LinkedIn that on the 5th April 2021 he discovered an insecure Elasticsearch server containing the data. Diachenko believes that the data relates to sellers who have sold items through reverb.com …
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Many UK workers awoke Friday morning to find that their Plusnet internet connections are not functioning. Internet service provider Plusnet is suffering from an outage this morning as its DNS servers appear to be down. While customers are technically connected to the internet, their connections are not particularly useful as they can’t be used to …
The Brazilian consumer protection regulator, based in São Paulo, has condemned Apple for not including a charger in the iPhone 12 box. Last October, the consumer regulator questioned the company on this issue and, in November, the agency reported that the iPhone maker “had not shown any environmental gain”. Procon-SP, the Brazilian consumer protection regulator …
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Trustpilot has published its first transparency report as the veracity of online reviews has been the subject of increased scrutiny. In 2020, 39 million reviews were posted to Trustpilot, and of those, the firm has said that 2.2 million were removed for being “fake or harmful”. 1.5 million were removed by its fraud detection software. …
An email app has revealed that two-thirds of the messages it reviews contain hidden tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are tiny invisible images embedded by link within images, but stored on a remote server. When emails are opened, the email application makes a request to the remote server, giving the sender information about who is viewing …
Password management software LastPass will be adding new restrictions to its free offering. After 16th March, users of its free service will only be able to use the password manager on either a mobile device or a computer. When logging in for the first time after 16th March, users will have to choose which category …
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Which?, the UK based consumer rights champion, has found during an investigation that Amazon Marketplace reviews are easily bought for as little as £5 per review. These were also available in bulk, starting at £620 for 50 fake reviews and going up to £8,000 for 1,000. The sites that Which? found offered advice on how …