data breach
Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 for Cyber Attack!
British Mobile Phone Retailer Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO) due to a data breach in 2015. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that hackers gained unauthorized access to the database of the retailer leaking personal data of more than 3 million customers and 1,000 employees during an attack. […]
Russia launched Cyber Attacks to steal Yahoo User data says, Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, the former Chief Executive of Yahoo Inc, has publicly disclosed that Russia launched cyberattacks on at least one occasion to steal Yahoo User Data. Mrs. Mayer also rendered her apology to all the Yahoo users, as the data theft occurred during her tenure. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, alongside the interim and […]
Cyber Attack on Appleby can reveal financial records of World’s Richest People!
Bermuda based law firm Appleby has made it official that it has become a victim of a cyber attack and admitted that hackers have managed to steal data from its database last year. Now the law firm fears that cyber crooks might anytime leak the financial records of World’s Richest People which could pronounce serious […]
Cyber Attack reveals plastic surgery details of British Royal Family members
Hackers who launched a cyber attack on London Bridge Plastic Surgery (LBPS) Clinic of UK have succeeded in siphoning off with Terabytes of data which includes plastic surgery details, photos and some videos of famous high profile celebrities. A hackers group named “The Dark Overlord” is said to be behind this attack and claims to […]
Top 5 Cloud Security related Data Breaches!
The Year 2017 has so far witnessed some data slip-ups from the worlds top cloud storage providers and the details are as follows- Accenture- World’s first Cyber Resilience startup UpGuard discovered in its Cyber Risk survey that Accenture left at least 4 AWS S3 storage buckets unsecured. And as a result of this flaw, the […]
Insurance company may pay $275 million for Merck Ransomware Cyber Attack
Drug maker Merck which experienced a ‘NotPetya’ ransomware attack in June this year could get an insurance cover of $275 million from the insurer. The estimate forecast was provided by Verisk Analytics Inc’s Property Claims Services(PCS) unit and the actual amount may vary in reality. Merck, on the other hand, is not interested in disclosing […]
Critical US Navy information spilled in Cyber Attack
Cyber criminals have succeeded in gaining access to the social security numbers and other sensitive information of more than 134,000 US navy personnel’s. The data leak took place when a cyber attack was launched on a laptop of an employee of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise who was working as a navy contractor. The Navy has admitted that […]
