data breach
UK Information Commissioner pronounced £42 million worth penalties on companies
UK’s Information Commissioner Office(ICO) has disclosed that it has slapped multiple penalties on companies that failed to protect the information of its customers from data breaches last year. And estimates are in that the amount could total around £42 million that includes the £20m penalty slapped on British Airways and Marriott Hotel Chain. According to […]
Over 100 million customer data stolen in T-Mobile Cyber Attack
T-Mobile that occupies over 35% of mobile subscriber base in United States has launched a detailed probe after receiving several media concerns that over 100 million T mobile customer data was available on sale on the dark web. Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that a hackers group has published the stolen data on a hacking forum […]
Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine
Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) has hit the news headlines for becoming a victim of a cyber attack that led to data breach of over 57,900 claimant accounts seeking unemployment benefits. Highly placed sources say that the security breach was related to Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits Information System aka CONNECT, where hackers reportedly […]
CTOs not ready to take the blame of data breaches
Any C-level employee of any organization will never wish to take the data breach blame in their tenure and that’s a thinking that seems fair enough. And according to a study, the fear of loosing their job if a data breach is disclosed seems to make nearly two-thirds (63%) of IT leaders hide such incidents […]
Cyber Attack news trending on Google
Mint Mobile, an American Mobile Carrier stated it has become a victim of a cyber attack early last month that ended in a data breach affecting a larger section of its customers. And Prima facie reveals that the hacker somehow infiltrated the database and used special software to port several customer mobile numbers to another […]
9 Ways to Prevent Third-Party Data Breaches
This post was originally published by Abi Tyas Tunggal. The increasing number of third-party data breaches and the sensitive information they expose have negatively impacted consumer trust. Third-party breaches occur when sensitive data is stolen from a third-party vendor or when their systems are used to access and steal sensitive information stored on your systems. […]
Data breaches in 2020 decreased by 48% but the number of records exposed have exceeded 37 billion.
RICHMOND, VA, January 21, 2020 — Risk Based Security today released their 2020 Year End Data Breach QuickView Report, revealing that there were 3,932 publicly reported data breaches, compromising over 37 billion records. Compared to 2019, the number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48%. However, the total number of records compromised increased by 141% […]
Prevent a Pfizer-like PII Data Breach in Google Cloud
This post was originally published by amol sarwate In the long saga of systemic PII data breaches, Pfizer is the latest victim. Personally identifiable information, or PII, is any data that could potentially identify a particular person. Examples of PII information include a full name, address, identifiers like driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers, or email […]
Three Million payment card information of Dickeys BBQ sold on Dark Web
Joker’s Stash a fraudulent online bazaar which sells data breach information has released a new batch of info on its website and stated that 90% of data is still active and thus being sold for a fancy amount. What it means is that the mafia driven website is selling card information to hackers and those […]
No US Voter Registration data breaches… yet
Although those news resources belonging to Russia are spreading misinformation on the social media that the US Vote Registration database was hacked and the information is been circulating on the dark web from the past couple of days, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) has released a press statement or rather was forced to […]
