A major security issue has been discovered in a number of browser extensions for both Firefox and Chrome. These browser extensions are harvesting your data, and you should remove them immediately. The extensions are collecting massive amounts of very personal data from people’s web browsers, and selling this data on to third parties.
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Thu, 08/22/2019 - 4:00am
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