All Security Breaches and Attacks articles – Page 10
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ebookThe Complete Guide to Business Privacy
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NewsEight US companies fined for cyber security failings
The United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has levied fines totalling $750,000 (€636,000) on eight broker-dealers and/or investment advisors after personally identifying information of around 11,500 clients was exposed.
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NewsHacker accesses personal data of Asian airline’s passengers
The private information of fliers with Bangkok Airways has been compromised in a cyber-attack.
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NewsT-Mobile’s beefs up cyber security after humbling experience of data breach
Telecom T-Mobile has entered into long-term partnerships with cyber security provider Mandiant and management consultancy KPMG after private information of millions of customers and prospective customers was compromised in a cyber-attack on its US operations.
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NewsAT&T refutes claims of data breach
Telecommunications company AT&T has denied claims that the personal data of 70 million of its customers were stolen by threat actor ShinyHunters.
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NewsT-Mobile hit with class actions after data breach
A pair of lawsuits have been filed against US telecom T-Mobile following a cyber-attack affecting more than 53m customers and prospective customers.
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NewsIndiana state notifies residents about contact tracing data breach
The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers of a data breach involving responses collected from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey.
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NewsDetails of 1m-plus credit cards ‘leaked on line’
Hackers have reportedly given away information on more than 1m stolen credit cards to promote a new cyber-criminal market place on the dark web.
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NewsKentucky University announces data breach
A data breach at the University of Kentucky has exposed the personal information of its students and staff.
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NewsDeliveroo fined for privacy and transparency breaches in Italy
Italian data protection authority Garante has imposed a €2.5m ($3.0m) financial penalty on food delivery company Deliveroo for disproportionate collection of workers’ data and lack of transparency in use of algorithms.
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NewsSolarWinds hackers accessed offices of US prosecutors
Email accounts in the offices of 27 US district attorneys were breached during the SolarWinds supply-chain cyber-attack last December, the department of justice (DoJ) has admitted.
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VideoGRCTV: The cyber fraud epidemic & app store scams
Access this episode on demand, as we delve into how the pandemic created a cyber fraud epidemic and we chat with the man poking holes in Apple’s app store and the multi-million dollar scams operating on within the app store.
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NewsZoom settles class action privacy lawsuit for $85m
Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices in a class action lawsuit filed Saturday afternoon.
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NewsData breach lawsuit against Walmart dismissed
A US judge has ended a proposed privacy class action against Walmart for an alleged data breach, finding the customer who sued the supermarket chain had not adequately pleaded his claims.
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NewsGun owners told to exercise vigilance following firearms dealer data breach
Tens of thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a popular firearms marketplace have been published on the dark web following a data breach.
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NewsData from price comparison website breached in cyber attack
Ransomware attackers forced Swiss price comparison website comparis.ch offline for two days last week with the associated data breach probably resulting in client data being stolen, Zurich police say.
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NewsConnecticut gives companies some protection from cyber security breaches
The governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, has signed into law legislation which protects businesses from punitive damages if personal or restricted information is improperly accessed.
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NewsClient info stolen in Morgan Stanley data breach
Personal information belonging to clients of the leading investment bank Morgan Stanley have been stolen following a data breach stemming from a vulnerability in one of its third-party IT suppliers.
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NewsGerman council paralysed by country’s first cyber catastrophe
Computer-based operations at the local authority serving Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in eastern Germany have virtually ground to a halt after being hacked.
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NewsUK transgender charity fined for data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has imposed a financial penalty of £25,000 ($34,600, €29,200) on transgender charity Mermaids for failing to keep personal data of its users secure
