data breach
UK Data Regulator publishes information of firms hit by data breaches
Next time when you are hit by a cyber attack, you better be aware that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) will soon make the information public by posting it on its website. Yes, this is what the ICO has decided as it believes that naming and shaming will make company heads take measures to […]
Russia could have hacked the UK Spy agency says MoD
UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has released a press statement that few of its servers might have been compromised by hackers believed to be working for the Russian government. The suspicion finger pointed out towards Kremlin as the cyber crooks stolen classical data related to 100 British Army recruits who were working in other nations […]
Company asks customers to delete credit card info after data breach
A Caribbean based company is urging its customers to delete credit card info saved onto its website after it detected a data breach on its servers. Aeropost, Inc that is into the business of logistics and e-commerce, is asking its customers to delete all card related info saved onto the company’s account, respectively. Details about […]
T-Mobile pays $200,000 to buy its customer data from hackers
T-Mobile suffered a data breach last year and tried to buy its data back from hackers after paying an amount of $200,000 against the demanded 6 BTC. But it seems the negotiations failed and the cyber crooks continued their activity of selling the data in a freshly breached hack of the firm named Company 3. […]
Ericsson serious about the data breach and data leak to media
Ericsson, the Sweden-based Telecom Company that was involved in the 2019 money laundering case with a terrorist organization, seems to be serious about some of the internal documents being leaking to Swedish and international news outlets. According to a highly placed source the senior level management of the company is miffed with the reports claiming […]
About 300,000 patient data leaked in data breach of SuperCare Health
SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. And the notice says that a security incident hit the company on July 27th, 2021 when hackers fraudulently accessed its system for 5 complete days, i.e. from July 23rd to July […]
Meta faces $19m fine over Data Breach
Facebook parent company Meta has been slapped with a fine of €17 million or $19m by the Irish data watchdog. And the reason for the penalty issuance is that the company failed to maintain certain security standards while protecting the information of EU public. As Meta failed to comply with the latest GDPR rules of […]
California Hospital data breach crisis deepens
UC San Diego Health, a California based healthcare service provider, reportedly suffered a data breach early this year, and it notified the 450,000 victims from September 7th, 2021. Going further, the details of the security incident was made public by the health services provider in July this year in which it stated that it became […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
Irish Health Service Executive shortly denoted as HSE is trending on Google news headlines for using an outdated version of over 30,000 computers in server farms and that includes most of them running on the old and obsolete Windows 7 operating that is no longer supported by Microsoft by any chance. In May this year, […]
Cyber Attack leads to data breach of Britain’s Gun Enthusiasts
A report published in ‘The Register’ states that information related to Britain’s gun enthusiasts was leaked in a sophisticated cyber attack targeted a few weeks ago leading to the exposure of sensitive details such as home addresses, contact details and names of over 111,295 people holding license to own and operate a gun. National Crime […]
