Tag: data breach

Data for 500 Million Facebook Users Found Online
Data for some 500 million Facebook users has been found online, in the latest incident involving the social media giant. The data, involving 53...
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T-Mobile Data Breach Exposes 200,000 Customers’ Data
T-Mobile has suffered a major data breach, impacting some 200,000 customers. Wireless carriers ar...
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Sophos Suffers Data Exposure Incident
Security firm Sophos has informed customers it suffered a data breach as a result of a misconfigured database. According to...
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Vertafore Data Breach Exposed 28 Million Texas Driver’s License Records
Vertafore has acknowledge a data breach that has exposed the driver’s license records of some 28 million Texans, thanks to unsecured files....
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What Not to Do: Former Uber CSO Charged For Covering Up Data Breach
The Department of Justice has announced it is charing Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan for obstruction of justice....
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Capital One Fined $80 Million For Security Negligence
Capital One has been fined some $80 million by the government for failing to adequately protect consumer data....
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Majority of Users Don’t Change Passwords After Data Breach
A new study has found the vast majority of users fail to change their passwords after being notified their data was impacted by a security breach....
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U.S. Indicts 4 China Military Personnel for Equifax Breach
TheStreet.com is reporting the U.S. has hande...
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FBI Seizes Site With 12 Billion Stolen User Names & Passwords
In an international operation, the FBI has seized a website containing user data from over 10,000 data breaches, according to...
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Wyze Data Breach Exposes 2.4 Million Customers
Security camera manufacturer Wyze is the latest company to experience a data breach, exposing sensitive data of 2.4 million users....
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OnePlus Reports Second Data Breach in Two Years
OnePlus is reporting the second breach of customer data in as many years. A member of the security team informed customers of the breach on the company’s...
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T-Mobile Suffers Breach, Sensitive Prepaid Data Exposed
T-Mobile announced it has suffered a data breach, exposing prepaid customers’ sensitive inform...
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50 Million Google+ Accounts Compromised in Latest Data Breach, Platform to Shut Down Earlier Than Planned
The discovery of another privacy flaw has pushed Google to shut down Google+ much earlier than expected. Google announced on December 10 that it had discovered a securit...
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Google Plus Announces It Will Shutdown After Reportedly Compromising 500,000 User Accounts
Google recently announced that it is shutting down Google+, with the service expected to cease operating by Nov. 2019. The announcement came on the...
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Cyber Attacks on Small Businesses are on the Rise, Here’s How to Stay Safe
While recent data breaches on large enterprises like Home Depot, Target, and Yahoo made headlines worldwide, a 2016 report by cybersecurity firm...
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