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Capital One Breach Exposes Personal Data on 100 Million U.S. Consumers

Financial services company Capital One revealed a data breach affecting 100 million U.S. consumers who had applied for credit, plus six million Canadians. In a classic look on the bright side, the company highlighted extra encryption that protected most social security numbers and account numbers. It did mention that exposed data included “names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” and “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information, fragments of transaction data from 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018, and about 140,000 social security numbers” as well as one million Canadian social insurance numbers.

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Quotient Technology Offers Ad Audiences Based on Retail Coupons and Purchases

August 1, 2019

Quotient Technology manages a promotion network that it says accounts for 75% of all consumer packaged goods digital coupon activations. They’ve just launched a service to build digital ad audiences based on their data, which also includes purchase history on over 100 million consumers. Ads will be delivered through web sites, mobile apps, social media, smart TVs, and other digital channels.

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Twilio Announces Unified Profiles Powered by Segment

March 28, 2024

Twilio has announced two innovations within Twilio Flex, its digital engagement platform. The first, Unified Profiles, will be powered by Segment and allow businesses to collect and activate real-time consented data. This is the first of three launches set for 2024 that will embed Segment in Twilio Communication products. The second innovation is Agent Copilot which will allow users to deploy AI across this data to boost productivity.

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