Data breach stories - Page 15

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

Largest ever database of breached login details leaked on dark web, containing over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.

In 2018, over a billion people were impacted by data breaches. From British Airways to Marriott, NordVPN highlights the most severe security lapses.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Dell is asking all of its Dell.com customers to change their passwords after it detected 'unauthorised activity' on its network earlier this month.

Google's management was aware of the bug but chose not to share it with the public to avoid scrutiny by regulators.

US retailers are neglecting encryption despite storing more data in the cloud, leading to a 50% surge in data breaches, a Thales report reveals.

Leaked personal information includes names, credentials, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and home addresses.

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.

Multiple US officials have announced the intelligence community had evidence that states had been compromised by Russia but didn't tell anyone.

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company's massive US data breach last year.

The predictions for the new year include both good news and bad news, like the biggest data breach settlement of all time and increased awareness.

A cybersecurity expert has said it is a 'stunning admission' by the former CIA director about the NSA breach that is being touted as catastrophic.

The CISO's role is crucial to the rollout of organisation-wide IT security strategies, but they still have an uphill battle to fight.

Gemalto's Breach Level Index proves once again that data breaches across the world continue to increase in scale and severity.

Australian organisations are facing an increase in cyber litigation, prompting the need to prepare for mandatory data breach reporting, says law firm Jones Day.

Australian organisations will struggle to comply with the Federal Government's mandatory data breach notification proposals.

Health information is being stolen from non-healthcare organisations, affecting 18 out of 20 industries, says Verizon.