Tag: Breach

September 10, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 13 percent increase in fraudulent activity compared to the previous six months, with a spike in June representing the highest-volume bot attack that’s been recorded since 2016, according to an analysis from LexisNexis. […]

July 30, 2019

Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States by assets, has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach affecting the personal and financial information of some 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada. Simultaneously, […]

June 28, 2019

Hackers breached the infrastructure of PCM Inc., one of the major U.S.-based cloud solution provider. According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs, the attackers gained access to email and file sharing systems for some of the company clients. In 2018 […]

June 18, 2019

Oregon State University announced Friday that hackers potentially made off with 636 student records and family records of students containing personally identifiable information (PII), after a successful email attack in early May. This comes on the heels of email-based breaches […]

May 8, 2019

Almost two years after suffering a massive hacker attack, Equifax is still picking up the pieces, paying penalties through its nose. The latest act of retribution comes from the U.S. state of Indiana, which has sued the credit bureau this […]

April 11, 2019

Yahoo is offering to cough up $117.5 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its massive data breaches that compromised the personal information of three billion users. The new $117.5 million settlement, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in San […]

April 3, 2019

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) suffered a security breach, on Tuesday it revealed that “an unknown outside entity” had gained unauthorized access to a database that stored the details of 1.3 million individuals. Exposed data includes names, addresses, […]

March 28, 2019

IT systems at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and the Federal Reserve Bank show vulnerabilities that could lead them open to exploitation and breach. Two related reports from the General Accounting Office (GAO) point out significant issues with the […]

March 15, 2019

Businesses routinely delayed data breach disclosure and failed to provide important details to the ICO in the year prior to the GDPR’s enactment. On average, businesses waited three weeks after discovery to report a breach to the ICO, while the […]

March 13, 2019

The recent cyberattack on enterprise technology provider Citrix Systems using a technique known as password spraying highlights a major problem that passwords pose for companies: Users who select weak passwords or reuse their login credentials on different sites expose their […]

March 5, 2019

Internal security teams at enterprise organizations are generally getting better at detecting compromises, but it’s still taking them well over a month to discover them. A FireEye analysis of global breach data from 2018 shows that half of all organizations […]

February 18, 2019

There were 6,515 publicly disclosed data compromise events through December 31, 2018, exposing over 5 billion sensitive records, according to Risk Based Security’s Year End 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report. While the year ended below 2017’s high mark of 6,728 […]

January 17, 2019

A new Vera report reveals stark numbers behind the mounting toll of data breaches triggered by cybercrime and accidents. One of the most recognized and mandated security controls, installed encryption tools protect just four percent of breached files. Meanwhile, compliance-focused […]

December 17, 2018

Like most of the security community, I have spent hours digesting the recently released U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report on the Equifax breach. I read the report with a mix of heartfelt empathy and […]

December 10, 2018

Janrain conducted a survey to better understand how consumers really feel about brands in the wake of so many breaches. The company polled 1,000 UK adults and found that most consumers are still willing to part with their personal information […]

December 5, 2018

The FBI is investigating a cyber breach that hit the House Republican campaign arm earlier this year, a spokesperson for the group said Tuesday. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was alerted to the breach in April, according to Politico, […]

November 12, 2018

Bankers Life is notifying more than 566,000 individuals, including Medicare supplemental insurance policyholders, that their personal information was exposed in a hacking incident. Employee credentials were compromised, enabling unauthorized third parties to gain access to certain company websites containing personal […]

November 9, 2018

Organizations tend to end up in cybersecurity news because they failed to detect and/or contain a breach. Breaches are inevitable, but whether or not an organization ends up in the news depends on how quickly and effectively it can detect […]

October 24, 2018

The now-defunct Yahoo has reached a $50 million settlement with 200 million U.S. residents whose personal data was stolen in the biggest known data breach in history. Customers will also get two years’ worth of free credit monitoring. Hackers compromised […]

October 15, 2018

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is pressing Google to explain its data privacy practices in the wake of revelations that user data was hacked from its now defunct social media platform, Google Plus. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent […]