The social media app, available on Android and iOS and similar to Gas, a compliments-based app, was recently found to have an internal database with no password that allowed easy access to the data of more than 153,000 users.
Consumers know the more they do digitally, the more their data is at risk. According to Daon’s survey of more than 3,000 US and UK consumers, people foresee cybersecurity threats persisting and believe these will continue to outpace the cyber technology to control them. Most surveyed want more security for financial accounts (93%) and to have their identity protected (91%). Participants also said they would be willing to take extra security steps daily (91%), including use of biometrics (81%).
The suit, which was filed in Kenya in December, alleged that inflammatory comments on the social platform may have fueled sentiments over Ethiopia’s civil war.
Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.