Industry Security UK's ICO swings $230 million stick at British Airways for major data breach GDPR strikes again with ICO's biggest fine yet By Adrian Potoroaca, July 8, 2019, 11:17 AM
Security US customs says images of travelers were stolen in hack on subcontractor Along with copies of their license plates By Rob Thubron, June 11, 2019, 5:25 AM
The Web Security Attackers breach collections agent for Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp exposing 20 million records About 200,000 contained credit card and bank information By Cal Jeffrey, June 5, 2019, 3:33 PM
Security Malware dating back to 2015 discovered on Checkers and Rally's POS systems Another day, another data breach By Shawn Knight, May 31, 2019, 9:53 AM
Security The Web Flipboard discovered hacker lurking on its servers for 10 months User names, passwords, e-mail addresses and digital tokens were potentially stolen By Shawn Knight, May 29, 2019, 10:58 AM
Security Mysterious database exposed over 80 million records on US households Another day, another exposed database By Cal Jeffrey, April 29, 2019, 2:32 PM 10 comments
Mobile Security 'WiFi Finder' app left over 2 million network passwords exposed Network names, geolocation, BSSID, and passwords stored in plaintext on an unsecured server By Cal Jeffrey, April 22, 2019, 1:55 PM 7 comments
Microsoft Security Outlook.com hack more extensive than Microsoft first claimed, email contents compromised Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail accounts were affected By Rob Thubron, April 15, 2019, 6:39 AM 8 comments
Industry Yahoo reaches revised $117.5 million data breach settlement A judge must approve the settlement By Shawn Knight, April 9, 2019, 12:36 PM
Security Planet Hollywood's parent company confirms millions of credit and debit card numbers stolen Krebs on Security found at least two million card numbers being sold on the black market By Cal Jeffrey, April 1, 2019, 1:00 PM
Industry Security California introduces proposal to expand data breach notification law Passport numbers and biometric data are not currently required by law to be reported breached By Cal Jeffrey, February 22, 2019, 5:05 PM
Security Collections #2-5, 845GB of stolen usernames and passwords, are circulating among hackers Hackers are sharing 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords By Shawn Knight, January 31, 2019, 2:27 PM 9 comments
Security Over a decade of mortgage and loan documents have reportedly leaked onto the web Millions of documents may have been exposed By Cohen Coberly, January 24, 2019, 2:38 PM
Security Leaked database exposes 87GB of emails and passwords Check if your details appear in Collection #1 By Rob Thubron, January 17, 2019, 7:57 AM 19 comments
Industry The Web Facebook is voted the least-trusted tech company Who'd have thought! By Rob Thubron, December 27, 2018, 7:47 AM 9 comments
Security NASA reveals employee data breach involving personally identifiable information No missions were compromised in the breach By Shawn Knight, December 19, 2018, 10:39 AM
Google The Web Google expedites Google+ shutdown following yet another data leak User names, occupations, and ages were exposed By Cohen Coberly, December 10, 2018, 1:54 PM
Security Quora reveals data breach that affected over 100 million users Stolen data included names, direct messages, and encrypted passwords By Rob Thubron, December 4, 2018, 7:08 AM
Security Marriott hotel chain reveals data breach that affected 500 million customers Some payment card details may have been compromised By Rob Thubron, November 30, 2018, 8:25 AM
Security Misconfigured Elasticsearch servers leaked data of 57 million Americans Personal information may have been exposed for two weeks or longer By Cal Jeffrey, November 29, 2018, 1:21 PM
Security The Web Dell performs global password reset following cybersecurity incident Hackers targeted Dell on November 9 By Shawn Knight, November 29, 2018, 11:02 AM
The Web Security Amazon 'technical error' leaks users' names and e-mail addresses Amazon isn't saying much about the security incident By Shawn Knight, November 21, 2018, 2:36 PM
Industry Security Cathay Pacific waited seven months to announce a data breach today More than 9 million customers were compromised and company is likely to escape punishment By Cal Jeffrey, October 25, 2018, 3:53 PM
Industry UK regulator fines Facebook £500K for failure to protect users' personal information A slap on the wrist for Facebook By Shawn Knight, October 25, 2018, 1:06 PM
Industry Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million, provide credit monitoring to settle data breach lawsuit The two-year-old suit looks to be winding down By Shawn Knight, October 24, 2018, 11:14 AM