Tag: data breach

October 26, 2023

Famous watchmaker Seiko has confirmed that the cyberattack it suffered in July 2023 was indeed a cybersecurity incident carried out by the infamous BlackCat ransomware gang. In an incident report published on October 25 (the third one in the series), […]

October 18, 2023

D-Link has confirmed suspicions that it was successfully targeted by cyber criminals, but is talking down the scale of the impact. On October 1, word of a data breach spread after a post on a hacking forum claimed to be […]

October 17, 2023

In the wake of the recent 23andMe data breach that impacted millions of customers, new legal action is now being pursued against the genetic testing company. Four class action lawsuits were filed in the past week on behalf of 23andMe […]

October 2, 2023

Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate with a diversified portfolio of products and services primarily focused on building technologies and solutions. The company provides HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), solutions for building automation, fire and security systems, […]

September 26, 2023

Canada’s Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) fears a MOVEit breach allowed cybercriminals to copy 3.4 million people’s childcare health records dating back more than a decade. BORN, which collates and uses information on “pregnancy, birth, the newborn period and […]

September 25, 2023

Air Canada has suffered a cyberattack in which some employee information was accessed. The news was confirmed by the airline itself, via a press release published on the company’s website, where a statement revealed, “an unauthorized group briefly obtained limited […]

September 21, 2023

Pizza Hut’s Australian outpost has suffered a data breach. The baked goods purveyor has delivered bitter news to around 190,000 customers: that their name, delivery address, email address, and phone numbers have been accessed by unautorised entities. Even more seriously, […]

August 28, 2023

Cyber attacks on e-commerce applications are a common trend in 2023 as e-commerce businesses become more omnichannel, they build and deploy increasingly more API interfaces, with threat actors constantly exploring more ways to exploit vulnerabilities. This is why regular testing […]

August 28, 2023

Greater London’s Metropolitan Police have been warned that their information — names, ranks, ID numbers, vetting levels, and photos — was stolen by hackers in a breach that affects 47,000 officers and staff. The hackers broke into the IT systems […]

August 28, 2023

Financial services companies breached as a result of MOVEit zero-day vulnerability are facing a flurry of class action lawsuits over the exposure of sensitive customer financial data. TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab are the latest firms facing suits, this time […]

August 9, 2023

The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a “complex” cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. “The incident was […]

July 27, 2023

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday approved new rules that require publicly traded companies to publicize details of a cyber attack within four days of identifying that it has a “material” impact on their finances, marking a […]

July 24, 2023

The average cost per data breach for business in 2023 jumped to $4.45 million, a 15% increase over three years. But instead of investing in cybersecurity, 57% of breached organizations told IBM they were inclined to just pass those costs […]

July 18, 2023

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images. The development, first reported by DataBreaches.net last week, comes nearly […]

June 20, 2023

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June 6, 2023

Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (2023 DBIR), which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches. Chief among its findings is the soaring cost of ransomware – malicious software (malware) that encrypts […]

May 8, 2023

Digital storage giant Western Digital confirmed that an “unauthorized third party” gained access to its systems and stole personal information belonging to the company’s online store customers. “This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephone […]

April 14, 2023

Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company’s MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What’s more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising […]

April 13, 2023

While an increasingly number of regulations have made the reporting of data breaches mandatory, a majority of IT professionals in the United States say they have been told to keep quiet about an incident, potentially running afoul of legal requirements. […]

March 28, 2023

OpenAI said on Friday that it had taken the chatbot offline earlier in the week while it worked with the maintainers of the Redis data platform to patch a flaw that resulted in the exposure of user information. The issue […]