Data blunders continue at Ministry of Defence, with 7 serious data incidents in the space of a year, as well as the loss of 27 electronic devices
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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
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
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 now reportedly being sold online
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 posted online
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Google+
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
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
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 breach - says information was scrapped
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
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 to gangs
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 broken multiple laws and begins probe
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 proof
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 organisations
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
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 refused to pay
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
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
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 fine
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 last year
Finnish Therapy Patients Blackmailed After Data Breach
New low. Confidential records of thousands of psychotherapy patients in Finland compromised, with some patients now being blackmailed
British Airways Hit With Record £20m Fine For Data Breach
Data protection watchdog reconsiders its £183.4 million fine against British Airways for 2018 data breach, and lowers it down to £20 million
Former Uber Security Chief Charged For Data Breach Cover-Up
Uber's former security boss, Joe Sullivan, charged by US DoJ for covering up 2016 data breach, that was exposed a year later in 2017
Personal Data Of 24 Million South Africans Exposed By Experian Breach
Oh dear. Fraudster is blamed for breach of credit agency Experian, which has exposed the personal data of 24 million South Africans