A new ForgeRock study shows that a whopping 2.8 billion consumer data records where compromised by criminals last year. US companies incurred costs totaling $654 billion as a result of data breaches. …
Billing Details for 11.9M Quest Diagnostics Clients Exposed
The personal data of close to 12 million clients of diagnostic services giant Quest Diagnostics Incorporated has been exposed in a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a …
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Hackers steal student data from Australia’s top university
The Australian National University (ANU) has experienced a massive data breach in which hackers got hold of 19 years' worth of sensitive information on ANU students, many of whom are now government …
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POS Malware Steals Payment Info From 103 Checkers Restaurants
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., a company that operates hundreds of Checkers and Rally’s drive-thru restaurants across the United States, has suffered a serious security breach in which threat …
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Unsecured database exposes 85GB in security logs of major hotel chains
Security researchers with VPN mentor have discovered an unsecured sever exposing 85GB worth of security logs that could provide threat actors with information on weakness in the networks of 96 hotels …
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25% of Workers Would Give Away Data for £1000
A new Deep Secure survey underlines how a lack of loyalty among employees can undermine the data protection efforts of companies in the age of GDPR. According to the research, one in four employees …
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Flipboard Confirms It Was Hacked Twice: 150M Users At Risk As Passwords Stolen
News aggregation app Flipboard has acknowledged that threat actors obtained authorized access to its databases on two separate occasions earlier this year. A first breach occurred between June 2, 2018 …
885 Million Sensitive Financial Records Exposed Online
A staggering 885 million records containing sensitive financial information were left exposed on the website of real estate and title insurance giant First American, Krebs On Security reported last …
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Snapchat Privacy Blunder Piques Concerns About Insider Threats
A recent report by Motherboard states that employees of Snap, the firm behind the popular multimedia messaging app Snapchat, abused internal tools developed for accessing user data in response to law …
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Assange Hit with New 18-Count Indictment
The US Department of Justice has produced a new 18-count indictment charging Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with illegally obtaining classified information and publishing this through his …
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