Who Can Put The Genie Of Data Back In The Bottle?
The 5 Biggest Data Exposures Scandals of spring, and why they would be impossible with Prometeus Network
Over the past three months, data of more than 1.6 billion Internet users has been exposed. The Prometeus team to tell you about the biggest accidents.
Instagram Bans Indian Marketers After Data Exposure
On May 20th, Anurag Sen who is a security researcher at TechCrunch found a database hosted on Amazon Web Services server without any protection.This database contained contact information like phone numbers, emails, names, and pictures of around 50 million Instagram influencers along with celebrity and official brands accounts. The investigater traced the database to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox, which pays influencers to post sponsored content on their accounts. At the moment Instagram revoked the access of Indian company.
All Secrets Of American Gays Exposed To Chinese Engineers
On May 22th, Reuters the first one who published the history of data exposure of Grindr LLC — dating app for the gay community. It’s chinese owner gave Beijing-based staff access to personal information of 1,5 millions of Americans such as private messages and HIV status. While there wasn’t evidence that the company misused the data, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was worried that the Chinese government could comb the database to find info on US intelligence and military personnel. U.S. officials have already asked chinese to sell the dating app.
Malaysian Road Transportation Department Exposes Data Of Motorists
Personal information of thousands of Singapore motorists exposed after a recent discovery of a loophole in the Malaysian Road Transportation Department’s VEP (Vehicle Entry Permit) website. It is data like a driver’s NRIC number, address, contact numbers, passport details and chassis information. The loophole was discovered accidentally by a Singaporean driver. The access to the website was urgently blocked. The ministry said the VEP was again accessible today after the loophole had been plugged.
It Is Classic Facebook
The cybersecurity firm UpGuard have discovered two troves of unprotected Facebook user data sat on Amazon’s cloud system, exposing hundreds of millions of records about users, including their names, passwords, comments, interests, and likes. One of the exposed databases belonged to a Mexican company Cultura Colectiva, which used Amazon cloud services to store some 146 gigabytes of data, including 540 million different records. The second database belonged to an app called At the Pool. It contained plaintext user passwords for 22,000 users.
Top US Insurer left nearly 900 million sensitive customer files exposed
US leader in real estate and mortgage insurer, First American Financial Corp., exposed a huge trove of digital documents with perosnal data of clients. It is about nearly 900 million files! Some of them included bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers’ license images. First American learned of a design defect on May 24th 2019. The company immediate shut down external access to the application. But this information had been already hosted online during 2 years since at least March 2017.
“We are developing a fully decentralized open system which will be invulnerable to data exposures by attackers or by mistakes. To reach this, our team uses Blockchain technology,” says CEO of Prometeus Labs Arthur Suilin. “Our product called Prometeus Network”.
- All Sensitive data will enter Prometeus Network in an encrypted form.
- Encryption will be performed using the Data Owner’s keys
- All data handlings will be controlled by impartial smart contracts.
- The Data Owner, alone, sets the price for their own data and chooses who will get access to this.
Prometeus Network produces a win-win data exchange between Data owners and data buyers that is beyond the control of corporate giants like Faсebook and would be resistant to possible administrative or legal pressure on the part of corporations.
