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Meta Fined $19m For 2018 Data BreachMeta Fined $19m For 2018 Data Breach

Meta Fined $19m For 2018 Data Breach

Ireland's data protection watchdog issues 17 million euros fine against Meta for 12 data breaches notifications back in 2018

3 years ago
Nearly Half Of UK Organisations Suffer Multiple BreachesNearly Half Of UK Organisations Suffer Multiple Breaches

Nearly Half Of UK Organisations Suffer Multiple Breaches

Checkmarx report uncovers alarming cybersecurity trends, with 45 percent of UK respondents experiencing multiple breaches in past 12 months

3 years ago
Vodafone Investigates Hacker Threat To Release Source CodeVodafone Investigates Hacker Threat To Release Source Code

Vodafone Investigates Hacker Threat To Release Source Code

Following on from Samsung hack, ransomware group Lapsus$ threatens to release a 200GB data tranche of Vodafone source code

3 years ago
Nvidia Admits Data Breach, Exposing Staff And Company Data – ReportNvidia Admits Data Breach, Exposing Staff And Company Data – Report

Nvidia Admits Data Breach, Exposing Staff And Company Data – Report

Data stolen from GPU powerhouse Nvidia has been leaked online, amid media reports that it has suffered a ransomware attack

3 years ago
MoD Reported 7 Serious Data Losses To ICOMoD Reported 7 Serious Data Losses To ICO

MoD Reported 7 Serious Data Losses To ICO

Data blunders continue at Ministry of Defence, with 7 serious data incidents in the space of a year, as well…

3 years ago
GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach Of 1.2 Million CustomersGoDaddy Confirms Data Breach Of 1.2 Million Customers

GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach Of 1.2 Million Customers

Unauthorised access of customer's WordPress installations, results in the data of 1.2 million GoDaddy customers being accessed

3 years ago
Labour Party Member Data Compromised After BreachLabour Party Member Data Compromised After Breach

Labour Party Member Data Compromised After Breach

'Cyber incident' for the UK's Labour Party sees 'significant quantity' of membership data, held by unidentified third party, being compromised

3 years ago
Hacker Steals Government Database Of All Argentine CitizensHacker Steals Government Database Of All Argentine Citizens

Hacker Steals Government Database Of All Argentine Citizens

Argentine government database containing ID card data of all citizens has been stolen by a hacker, and that data is…

3 years ago
Twitch Confirms Huge Data Breach Of Confidential DataTwitch Confirms Huge Data Breach Of Confidential Data

Twitch Confirms Huge Data Breach Of Confidential Data

Amazon's video streaming service Twitch admits it has suffered a huge data breach, after source code and earnings information is…

3 years ago
Home Addresses Of Gun Owners Leaked By ActivistHome Addresses Of Gun Owners Leaked By Activist

Home Addresses Of Gun Owners Leaked By Activist

Animal rights activist effectively publishes a map that reportedly shows the home addresses of thousands of UK gun owners

4 years ago
Microsoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential BreachMicrosoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential Breach

Microsoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Potential Breach

Leaky cloud storage bucket. Thousands of Microsoft Azure customers are warned of data exposure risk in Redmond's Cosmos database

4 years ago
FCC To Investigate T-Mobile Data BreachFCC To Investigate T-Mobile Data Breach

FCC To Investigate T-Mobile Data Breach

Data breach that impacted more than 40 million former, prospective, and current customers will be investigated by US regulator

4 years ago
T-Mobile Hackers Stole Personal Data Of 7.8 Million CustomersT-Mobile Hackers Stole Personal Data Of 7.8 Million Customers

T-Mobile Hackers Stole Personal Data Of 7.8 Million Customers

Hackers stole data of 7.8 million current T-Mobile customers, as well as 40 million records of former or prospective customers

4 years ago
T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach Of ‘Some Data’T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach Of ‘Some Data’

T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach Of ‘Some Data’

US mobile operator T-Mobile confirms “unauthorised access” to its systems after customer data appeared for sale on forum

4 years ago
Colonial Pipeline Admits Ransomware Attack Stole Personal DataColonial Pipeline Admits Ransomware Attack Stole Personal Data

Colonial Pipeline Admits Ransomware Attack Stole Personal Data

US pipeline operator confirms devastating ransomware attack in May, also resulted in theft of personal information of nearly 6,000 people

4 years ago

Payments Begin For Google Plus Lawsuit

Blast from the past. Lawsuit payouts for data breach begin to flow to users of Google's failed social networking experiment…

4 years ago

Saudi Aramco Confirms Data Breach After $50m Ransom Demand

World's largest oil producer Saudi Aramco confirms compromise of some of its data, after hacker demands $50 million ransom

4 years ago

British Airways Settles Data Breach Claims Case

Costly exercise. British Airways pays an undisclosed settlement to passengers and staff impacted by massive 2018 data breach

4 years ago

Data On 700 Million LinkedIn Users For Sale On Dark Web – Report

LinkedIn denies the personal data of 700 million users for sale on Dark Web was a result of a data…

4 years ago

Hack Exposes Data Of 4.5 Million Air India Passengers

Air India warns passengers their personal information including passport data, has been compromised in SITA software breach

4 years ago

Washington DC Police Dept Threatened After Ransomware Attack

Russian hackers who stole 250GB of data from Washington DC police department in ransomware attack, threaten to expose police informants…

4 years ago

Irish Regulator Investigates Facebook Over ‘Data Leak’

After the discovery last week of a dataset of 533 million Facebook users, Irish regulator warns firm it may have…

4 years ago

LinkedIn Data Of 500 Million Users Being Sold Online – Report

Scraped data of nearly half a billion LinkedIn users is being sold online, with two million records being published as…

4 years ago

European Commission Suffers ‘IT Security Incident’ – Report

Cyberattack carried out last month on the IT systems of the European Commission and a number of other European Union…

4 years ago

Billions Of Emails, Passwords Leaked Online

Huge exposure of personal emails and passwords found on dark web hacker forum, is a compilation of many previous breaches

4 years ago

Hackers Release Data Stolen In Sepa Ransomware Attack

Hackers have released confidential business and staff data stolen in a Christmas Eve ransomware attack on Sepa after the agency…

4 years ago

People’s Energy Data Breach Impacts 270,000 Customers

Entire customer database of People's Energy stolen, compromising names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and energy meter IDs

4 years ago

Bristol City Council Data Breach Revealed Names Of Disabled Children

Mass email from the council contained the names and email addresses of children with special educational needs and disabilities

4 years ago

ICO Hits Ticketmaster With £1.2m Data Breach Fine

Data breach on website in 2018, results in the ICO data protection watchdog hitting Ticketmaster with a hefty £1.25 million…

4 years ago

UK Watchdog Fines Marriott £18.4m For Data Breach

UK data protection watchdog ICO lowers fine for Marriott data breach to £18.4m, down from a £99 million fine issued…

4 years ago