Here you will find all the articles with the tag: data breach.
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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, ... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Saturday that the long-running investigation of Facebook and WhatsApp's conduct in the European Union, concerning transparency of data-sharing between the two platforms, is headed for a resolution. In what many are saying is a significant... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
