Tag: data breach

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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...

100,000 United Nations employees exposed after a data breach
January 12 2 min Security
The United Nations was attacked, with details of more than 100,000 U.N. Environmental Program employees compromised. But there’s a twist; the breach was uncovered by White Hat hackers. The ethical hacking and security research group Sakura Samurai, probed several U.N. databases after finding o...

Collection of thousands of hacked databases leaks
November 5 2 min Security
A collection of more than 23,000 hacked databases has temporarily appeared on a forum. The collection came from the hacker website Cit0day, which recently went offline. Cit0day was a website where cybercriminals could buy access to the hacked databases and then abuse the stolen personal data. Th...

Many GDPR fines were issued because companies failed in two ways
October 19 2 min Data
A new report by Exonar shows that most of the GDPR penalties issued fall into two categories. Businesses across Europe have so far paid over 620 million euro in fines under the GDPR rules.  65% of these fines come from security and data storage infractions. 39% of those fined were found to be i...

Ireland orders Facebook to stop transfering European data to the U.S
September 14 2 min Data
On Wednesday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced that Facebook should not be sending European data to the U.S. In a recent inquiry by regulators, it is believed that the data transferred to the United States does not protect users from surveillance by American agencies. If Facebook...

‘Businesses experience more data breaches due to remote workers’
August 24 2 min Security
Twenty percent of companies experienced a data breach caused by remote workers, according to a new study by the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. Businesses are increasingly exposed to significant cyber risks ever since the shift from working in the office to working from home. This inevitably le...
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