Category: Data loss

July 11, 2023

The personal details of Bangladeshi citizens have been accidentally disclosed by the website of the Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration. According to research by TechCrunch and confirmed by South African company Bitcrack Cyber Security, the leaked […]

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 […]

May 5, 2023

PHP software package repository Packagist revealed that an “attacker” gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages with over 500 million installs to date. “The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced […]

April 6, 2023

Dubbed Styx Marketplace, the portal offers data dumps, cash-out services, fake and stolen IDs, SIM cards, multi-factor authentication bypass solutions, banking malware, and other types of illegal services. Initially mentioned on the dark web in early 2022, the marketplace opened […]

March 29, 2023

HackNotice is offering additional tailored protection via its new service, HackNotice Actions. Further empowering employees, HackNotice Actions reaches out to any company where a person’s PII or other data has been compromised, and asks for a full report on or […]

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 […]

March 27, 2023

Part of Twitter’s source code has been leaked and posted on GitHub by an unknown user. GitHub took down the post after the social media platform requested it to do so on Friday. Twitter has also filed a case in […]

March 20, 2023

Last week, the NBA started sending out notification emails to an unknown number of individuals, to inform them that their information was compromised in a data breach at a third-party provider of newsletter services. The incident has resulted in the […]

March 13, 2023

Zoll develops and markets medical equipment and software for advanced emergency care, including cardiac monitoring, oxygen therapy, ventilation, data management, and more. The data breach, the company says, was identified at the end of January, when it discovered unusual activity […]

March 10, 2023

AT&T is informing customers about a data breach at a vendor’s system that allowed threat actors to gain access to AT&T’s Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). The incident came to light after customers posted the email communication from AT&T on […]

March 10, 2023

A proposed rule change at the Federal Communications Commission would expand the definition of a data breach for communications carriers. If approved by the agency, the rule would cover any incident that affects the confidentiality of customer information, even if […]

March 10, 2023

A hacker announced on a popular cybercrime forum on Thursday that they were “leaking data of a cybersecurity company called Acronis”, claiming that they hacked the company because they were bored and wanted to humiliate them. The hacker is the […]

March 7, 2023

When it comes to data breaches, organizations are generally informed about the risks and procedures for mitigating them. They can (typically) respond with minimal collateral damage. But the impact a data breach can have on individuals can be devasting; getting […]

March 7, 2023

The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what’s a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date. The embattled password management service […]

February 28, 2023

Cyber attack risks faced by businesses across states and reported data breaches are relative to the respective state governments’ cybersecurity investment, according to Network Assured. Study methodology Network Assured compared data from State Attorneys Generals and the Department of Health […]

February 20, 2023

The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to Critical Insight. Healthcare industry sees a decrease in data breaches A deeper dive […]

February 14, 2023

Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest bottlers of Pepsi beverages in the US, has reported a data breach affecting the personal information of several employees. The company filed a notice of the data breach with the Attorney General of Montana on […]

February 8, 2023

A finance app called “Money Lover” has been found leaking user transactions and their associated metadata, including wallet names and email addresses. That’s according to Trustwave, which published its findings in a blog post on Feb. 7. Money Lover, developed […]

February 8, 2023

A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order (CCO) and 100 hours of community service for attempting to take advantage of the Optus data breach last year to blackmail its customers. The unnamed individual, 19 when […]