Data breach stories - Page 24

Facebook's reputation takes another hit as 540 million user records are exposed due to misconfigured AWS servers.

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

Of the 11.5 million individuals affected by healthcare breaches in 2018, 67% had their information exposed by hacking and IT incidents.

Redscan's data reveals most data breach reports were late and incomplete, and that GDPR is not necessarily the panacea solution.

Asia Pacific firms face high cyber breach costs, with 17% incurring financial hits over USD $5 million. Yet, 39% limited impacts to under USD $500,000.

617 million records from sites like MyFitnessPal, Whitepages, and Fotolog are being sold on the dark web for BTC $20,000. Passwords are encrypted.

Since GDPR's inception in May 2018, over 59,000 data breaches have been reported, leading to 91 fines, including a EUR €50 million fine for Google.

Largest ever database of breached login details leaked on dark web, containing over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.

A report on SingHealth's 2018 data breach criticises inadequate security practices, revealing that staff missteps and system flaws left patient data exposed.

In 2018, over a billion people were impacted by data breaches. From British Airways to Marriott, NordVPN highlights the most severe security lapses.

The compromised servers stored personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to current and former NASA employees.

Commvault's Nigel Tozer reflects on the year that's been and the one ahead with three predictions of what will be and one that won't.

One of Twitter's support forums was hit by a data breach that may have ties to a state-sponsored attack, however users' personal data was exposed.

Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.

93 percent of companies without disaster recovery who suffer a major data disaster are out of business within one year.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Quora's 100 million users are the latest targets in a major data breach, but at least the company has moved quickly to contain it.

A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data.