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Marriott Agrees To Pay $52 Million To Settle Data Breaches

To settle US federal and state claims over multiple data breaches, Marriott International agrees $52 million settlement payment

2 months ago

UK ICO Fines NHS Supplier For Medical Records Breach

NHS supplier Advanced Computer Software Group fined £6m for data breach that exposed medical records of 82,000 people

4 months ago

AT&T Admits Data Breach Impacted “Nearly All” Customers

American telecommunications giant AT&T admits that “nearly all” customer accounts were compromised in 2022 breach

5 months ago

US Supreme Court To Hear Facebook Shareholder Suit Appeal

US Supreme Court agrees to hear Facebook attempt to dismiss shareholder lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal

6 months ago

ICO Warns PSNI It Faces £750k Fine Over Data Breach

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) says it cannot afford a £750,000 fine from the ICO, over its self-inflicted data…

6 months ago

Chinese Hack Exposes Ministry Of Defence Payroll Data

Payroll records of nearly all members of the UK's armed forces have been exposed, reportedly to Chinese hackers

7 months ago

AT&T Says Data Of 7.6 Million Account Holders Leaked On Dark Web

American telecommunications giant AT&T investigates incident after millions of customers’ data published on dark web

8 months ago

US Congress Bans Use Of Microsoft AI Copilot – Report

Risk of leaks. US House of Representatives implements strict ban on congressional staff using Microsoft's Copilot chatbot

8 months ago

Hackers Steals Customer Data From Car Parking Giant

Owner of parking apps RingGo and ParkMobile has been hacked, and customer data including credit card info has been stolen

11 months ago

Board Support Critical For Robust Cybersecurity Defence – Trellix

Security managers receive more board level support following a cyberattack, but cyber incidents are still occurring for majority

1 year ago

Samsung Confirms Hackers Compromised Customer Data – Report

Customers of the Samsung UK Store are being notified of a data breach that exposed their personal information

1 year ago

ICO Drops Investigation Into 2020 EasyJet Hack

BA not happy? UK data protection watchdog confirms it is halting EasyJet hack probe due to lack of resources

1 year ago

Equifax Fined By UK Watchdog Over 2017 Data Breach

UK's financial watchdog fines Equifax £11.2m for failure to protect UK consumer data in one of the largest ever cyber…

1 year ago

Sony Confirms Data Breach After MOVEit Tool Compromise

Sony finally confirms it was impacted by the Clop compromise of the MOVEit tool and begins notifying thousands of victims

1 year ago

ICC War Crime Tribunal Admits ‘Cybersecurity Incident’

International tribunal responsible for prosecuting those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has been hacked

1 year ago

Manchester Police Officer Data Compromised In Supplier Attack

Ransomware attack on third-party supplier has compromised data of staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP)

1 year ago

PSNI Data Breach Results In Arrests, Resignations

Two men arrested under the Terrorism Act, by detectives investigating huge PSNI data breach, have been released

1 year ago

Norfolk, Suffolk Police Confirm Data Breach

Another data breach for a UK police force, after Norfolk and Suffolk police admit victim data has been accessed

1 year ago

Dissident Republicans Claim To Have PSNI Breach Data, Admits Chief Constable

Disastrous PSNI data breach this week sees dissident republicans claiming to have information from the leak, chief constable admits

1 year ago

‘Monumental’ Data Breach Exposes Northern Ireland Police Officers

Every police officer in Northern Ireland has had their names and departmental locations exposed in a self-inflicted data breach

1 year ago

Council Publishes 15,000 Staff Salary Details Online

South Lanarkshire Council accidentally publishes salaries and national insurance numbers of 15,000 staff in Freedom of Information response

2 years ago

Former Uber Security Chief Sentenced To Probation Over Hack

San Francisco judge sentences former Uber security chief to three years' probation for role in covering up massive 2016 data…

2 years ago

T-Mobile Discloses Second Data Breach…This Year

Surely not. Second data breach of 2023, as number of security breaches continue to pile up at US mobile operator…

2 years ago

OpenAI Fixes Bug With ChatGPT That Exposed User Chats

Chief executive of OpenAI admits “significant issue” in ChatGPT has now been fixed, after user chat titles were exposed

2 years ago

Acer Confirms Huge 160GB Data Breach

Taiwanese PC giant Acer confirms major data breach, with hacker stealing 160GB of sensitive data and hawking it for sale

2 years ago

T-Mobile Confirms Hacker Stole Data Of 37 Million Customers

Not again. American mobile operator T-Mobile confirms customer data for 37 million users compromised by hacker

2 years ago

Twitter Says No Evidence Data Leak Originated From Its Servers

Data on 200 million Twitter users posted online by hacker did not come from a Twitter vulnerability, platform insists

2 years ago

Hacker Posts Twitter Emails Of 200 Million Users Online

Researcher claims hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted the data on hacking…

2 years ago

Twitter Faces Probe After Data On 400m Users Offered For Sale

Ireland data commission to investigate after hacker offers information from 400 million Twitter accounts for sale

2 years ago