Here you will find all the articles with the tag: data breach.
The Dutch privacy authority (AP) signalled growing numbers in its data breach report of 2021. Attacks on IT suppliers are increasingly impacting the supply chain. The data breach report for 2021 shows that 24,866 breaches were reported in the Netherlands last year. According to the AP, organizat... Read more
1 month ago
Researchers found a malicious backdoor in a WordPress plugin popular among schools. The premium version of the WordPress School Management plugin for WordPress has had a backdoor ever since the release of version 8.9 in 2021. Schools use the plugin to operate and manage their websites. The back... Read more
1 month ago
Lincoln College in Illinois is forced to permanently close its doors after a ransomware attack at the end of last year. The attack caused such damage that fundraising was no longer possible. According to the college, the ransomware attack caused such damage to data and systems that recovery took... Read more
2 months ago
A vulnerability in a third party call center opened the company up to a data breach. On Monday, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon gave an interview to Bloomberg Television in which he addressed the massive hack that the company suffered in January. McKinnon admitted that Okta doesn’t yet know how many of... Read more
3 months ago
The story of Lapsus$ ends as abruptly as it started. In a span of four months, the crime group breached some of the world's largest tech companies. Last week, the first suspects were arrested. The end is in sight. How could it have come to this? Who's calling the shots, and what do the victims have... Read more
3 months ago
British police arrested seven suspects in connection to Lapsus$'s attacks on Okta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung. Reuters reports that the suspects are aged between 16 and 21. Among the suspects is Lapsus$'s alleged 16-year-old mastermind. Family members of the young hacker declined to comment. ... Read more
3 months ago
John Edwards, the head of the UK’s data protection agency, believes leaving the EU gives Britain an advantage in fighting against data breaches. In an interview with Politico before a critical privacy conference in London on Wednesday, Edwards challenged the suggestion to muzzle his agency in ... Read more
3 months ago
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook's parent company, Meta, €17 million ($18.6 million) for a series of past data breaches. The security flaws in question, which appear to have impacted up to 30 million Facebook users, trace back many years and were reported to the Ir... Read more
4 months ago
An enormous hack has hit the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The personal data of as many as 515,000 people has been stolen. The perpetrator of the attack is unknown at this time. According to the IRCR, the hackers managed to steal personal information from databases of at least... Read more
5 months ago
European privacy rules may have to change for the EU's institutions to control their data. However, the senior commission official warned today that this could be problematic, as many people are not happy with how big tech companies use personal information without keeping customers in the loop. ... Read more
7 months ago
