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More than 700000 UK customer details were leaked in Equifax Cyber Attack
Equifax in its fresh public statement has admitted that personal details of more than 700,000 UK customers’ were leaked in the cyber attack which took place in 2Q of this year. And the details include credit card details (partial info), phone numbers, driving licenses, and other details. The credit monitoring company which is based in […]
Equifax Cyber Attack might financially help it in return!
All these days many media resources reported the news related to the cyber attack on Equifax and its data breach concerns. But did anyone pay attention to the point that the credit reporting agency is actually benefiting from the said data breach- if not now, in near future…? This was exactly the point raised by […]
Cyber Attack on SEC helps hackers make profits through illegal trade
United States market regulator ‘The Security and Exchanges Commission’ has disclosed that hackers could have hacked its corporate disclosure database in 2016 to obtain critical info which could have been used to make profits by illegal trading. The financial regulator of US added in its statement that the incident could have taken place at some […]
More than 100,000 Canadians affected by the cyber attack on Equifax!
Equifax has released an official confirmation late yesterday that more than 100,000 Canadians were affected by the cyber attack which targeted its database almost two months ago. The US-based Credit Agency has also assured that it will offer a public update by this weekend on the impact of the data breach which was disclosed to […]
Hackers launch Cyber Attacks on the government Website of Fayette County
Hackers launched Cyber Attacks on the government website of Fayette County locking down staff from accessing email accounts. Michael King, the County’s IT Director reported that the email systems of the county witnessed a break-in last week perhaps to gain access in order to send spam email or to perpetuate malware such as ransomware. “I […]
Yahoo to face litigation after more than 1 billion users’ info was leaked in Cyber Attack
Yahoo is said to face legal charges after more than 1 billion users information was leaked in a cyber attack. This includes names, emails, phone numbers, passwords and security questions. Yahoo was found guilty for being slow to disclose the attacks as it waited 3 years before revealing details about the first attack. Readers of […]
Hackers steal 2 million customer details from CEX via Cyber Attack
A cyber attack launched by some hackers hailing from Briton is said to have leaked customer details of more than 2 million CEX customers. The details include personal info like names, email addresses, contact numbers and some financial data which include encrypted credit card details. CEX which sells second-hand mobile phones, games and electronics said […]
verizon breach: how cloud encryption can save your data
This post was originally published here by Chantelle Patel. As has been widely reported, Verizon is the latest enterprise to be hit with a large-scale data breach. Over 14 million customer records were left exposed due to a misconfiguration in Verizon’s Amazon Web Services(AWS) instance. Among the leaked information were logs containing customer names, cell phone numbers, and […]
Ashley Madison agrees to pay $11.2 million as Cyber Attack settlement
Toronto based Ashley Madison has officially agreed to pay $11.2 million as cyber attack settlement in response to an American Class Action lawsuit which stemmed from a massive security breach which took place 2 years ago. However, the proposed settlement is yet to get the approval of United States District Court for the Eastern District […]
Cyber Attack leaks credit card numbers of Trump Hotel Customers
Trump International Hotels Management LLC issued a public statement on its website yesterday that a data breach which occurred at its IT service providers has compromised card payment details of customers at 14 of its properties, including hotels in Washington, New York, and Vancouver. The details forwarded to the press on Thursday say that the […]
