Tag: data breach

Here you will find all the articles with the tag: data breach.

What are the current cyber security threats? An overview.
October 20 7 min Security
Cybersecurity is in a state of constant change. The attack surfaces on which cybercriminals capitalize are as versatile as the overall development of information technology. Insight into both attackers and this attack surface is essential. Only by knowing what a threat looks like can we defend ours...

Ransomware attack disrupts hundreds of bookstores across Europe
October 1 2 min Security
The attack affected hundreds of bookstores in France, Belgium and The Netherlands. The Record this week reported that a ransomware attack had targeted TiteLive, a French company. TiteLive sells cloud-based software for book sales and inventory management. Bookstores affected by the ransomware at...

Fujitsu confirms stolen data was not taken from its systems
September 13 2 min Security
Fujitsu confirmed that data being sold by cybercriminals is not related to any breaches or attacks on its systems. Last month, a claim appeared on Marketo (the criminal marketplace) selling 4GB of data from Fujitsu, which was marketed widely. At the time, Fujitsu said it was investigating a pote...

86% of organizations expect to be victim of major cyberattack
August 9 2 min Security
The staggering numbers come from a new report by Trend Micro and the Ponemon Institute. The greatest risk is in the North American region. The survey also shows that 80% of organizations reported they are likely to experience a data breach. The global survey results show that the areas of concer...

Enterprise data breach cost hits all-new high at over $4M
July 28 2 min Security
The average cost of a data breach is now estimated to be over $4 million, a new record reached during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, IBM Security released its annual 'Cost of a Data Breach' report, with estimates from 2021 that show that the typical data breach now costs about $4.24 million p...

Experian suffers data breach due to faulty API
May 3 2 min Data
The fault has leaked the credit scores of almost every US citizen Experian, the major credit reporting company, has suffered a new data breach. The company's breach has exposed the credit scores of almost every person in the U.S. The source of the breach was an unprotected application programmin...

Data breach at DigitalOcean, “small percentage” of data leaked
April 29 2 min Cloud
Cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean has reported a data breach. A hacker has accessed customer data and billing information. TechCrunch reports this based on an email DigitalOcean sent to its customers. In it, Digital Ocean says that between 9 and 22 April, someone accessed its database a...

Ubiquiti: hacker never accessed customer information
April 1 2 min Security
There is no evidence that the attacker who managed to penetrate the Ubuquiti cloud environment accessed customer data. There would only have been an attempt to extort Ubiquiti with stolen source code. Ubiquiti writes this in response to the article written by security journalist Brian Krebs. Kre...

Ubiquiti swept data breach under the rug; what really happened?
March 31 5 min Security
A few months ago, Ubiquiti informed its customers about unauthorised access to its servers. There would be no indication that user information had been stolen. However, according to a security professional, the extent of the breach was much greater than Ubiquiti would like to admit. In January, ...

GDPR fines increased by 40% last year, but they will get bigger
January 20 2 min Data
Despite a slow start for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) two and a half years ago, the fines are starting to grow as the laws begin to gather serious momentum. There are larger fines on the way for non-compliance, according to historical data. In a new report relea...
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