Here you will find all the articles with the tag: data breach.
Storage provider Dropbox disclosed that cybercriminals stole 130 GitHub repositories through an employee's account. In addition to code, the personal email addresses of employees and customers were captured. The cybercriminals gained access to the employee's account through a phishing attack, Dr... Read more
1 year ago
A data breach at the parent company of Reuters exposed more than 3TB of sensitive corporate and customer data. The incident was discovered by security firm Cybernews. According to the researchers, several database servers used by Thomson Reuters were publicly accessible for days. The servers co... Read more
1 year ago
The personal data of tens of thousands of Eindhoven University of Technology students and employees were captured in a recent ransomware attack on the Dutch branch of German smart card specialist ID-ware. In an email to about 21,000 students and employees, TU Eindhoven announced that personal d... Read more
2 years ago
A misconfigured Azure Blob Storage endpoint caused unauthorized access to large amounts of Microsoft customer data last month. Although security researchers indicate that the breach affects tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, Microsoft believes the extent of the incident is exaggerated. ... Read more
2 years ago
American Airlines (AA) suffered a data breach in which the personal information of customers and staff may have been taken. The breach, announced by AA in a letter to victims on September 16, involved an authorized actor exposing the email accounts of AA staff members in July. When the airl... Read more
2 years ago
The Lorenz ransomware group managed to breach into corporate networks using VoIP vulnerabilities. Data breaches are at an all-time high, with several ransomware gangs exploiting vulnerabilities within systems to steal sensitive data. Lorenz is a ransomware group that uses VoIP vulnerabilities to... Read more
2 years ago
An unauthorized party recently gained access to the databases of streaming service Plex. The organization forces millions of users to change their passwords. Plex is a streaming service. Users receive storage capacity to upload their own blu-rays, DVDs and other video formats. The video content ... Read more
2 years ago
A user of hacker forum Breach Forums claims to have the database of the Shanghai health system in his hands. According to the user, the database contains the personal data of 48.5 million residents and visitors. The user is known on Breach Forums as 'XJP'. The user recently offered the database ... Read more
2 years ago
While businesses are increasing their cybersecurity investment, the cost and seriousness of breaches continue to climb. IBM's latest data breach study sheds light on why there is a widening disparity between company cybersecurity investment and data breach cost. 2022 is on track to set a new wor... Read more
2 years ago
Data breaches have increasingly high costs, according to IBM Security experts in an annual study. Organizations often pass on costs to customers. Big Blue's 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report states that 83 percent of respondents experienced one or more data breaches in the past year. Affected c... Read more
2 years ago
