data breach
Preventing a Capital One Cloud Data Breach
This post was originally published by amol sarwate. On July 29, it was announced that there was a Capital One cloud data breach. A hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, and investigators say thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers were also taken. This comes on the eve of the news […]
Capital One Data Breach: Non-Technical Tips To Not Be A Headline
This post was originally published by CloudPassage. In the last 48 hours, we’ve received dozens of messages asking about the recent Capital One data breach, detailed in this New York Times article. A similar data breach happened in April involving half a billion Facebook records in another cloud-related headline hack, and we had a similar influx from […]
What the 2019 AWS Security Report Tells Us About Preventing a Cloud Data Breach
This post was originally published by siri oaklander. In the wake of the recent Capital One security breach in their cloud environment on AWS, the security community is taking another look at how we approach cloud security. CloudPassage recently shared guidance in our blog, “Capital One Data Breach: Non-Technical Tips To Not Be A Headline”. Here […]
Capital One Data Breach: Non-Technical Tips To Not Be A Headline
This post was originally published here by CloudPassage. In the last 48 hours, we’ve received dozens of messages asking about the recent Capital One data breach, detailed in this New York Times article. A similar data breach happened in April involving half a billion Facebook records in another cloud-related headline hack, and we had a similar influx […]
Capital One Credit Card data breach affects its 100 million customers
Virginia based Financial Corporation ‘Capital One’ which specializes in auto loans and credit card service offerings has made it official that a hacker had accessed credit card details of more than 100 million of its customers and probably could have taken information regarding their social security numbers and other bank details. The recently disclosed hack […]
Lancaster University hit by a Phishing attack
A phishing attack which took place on the database of Lancaster University is said to have offered hackers access to student data and this includes info related to applicants applying for the academic year 2019-20 like names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Highly placed sources say that the attack was of sophisticated genre and […]
Equifax agreed to pay $700M for its 2017 Data Breach
American Credit Agency Equifax is reported to have agreed to pay a penalty of $700M for its 2017 Data Breach that affected more than 150 million customers by leaking their critical info such as personal names, date of births, social security numbers, and some financial details. Federal Trade Commission, a data watchdog of North America […]
British Airways fetches £183 million Cyber Attack penalty after GDPR
British Airways (BA) which suffered a major cyber attack in September last year has received the latest jolt in the last weekend. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has made an official statement early today saying that it has imposed a penalty of £183 million which was possibly the biggest penalty ever issued against a […]
Hacked database of Chinese software vendor exposes info of over a billion customers
Chinese smart home software vendor is reported to have left a billion customers logs open to potential hackers exposing critical information. Security analysts from VPNMentor which first discovered this flaw say that logs such as email addresses, passwords, account reset codes, Geolocation, IP addresses, usernames, Family Name, Family ID, and other sensitive info of ‘Orvibo’ […]
Amazon data breach leaks sensitive info of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford
Data of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford was allegedly found exposed to hackers on an Amazon Storage bucket which was owned and maintained by data integration and management company ‘Attunity’. The incident was found when a team of researchers from UpGuard was casually looking for vulnerable points to be accessed on Amazon S3 Storage Buckets […]
