State Department email breach leaks employee PII
15:38 18 September
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The State Department was hit with an email breach which exposed the personal information of some of its employees....
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Air Canada reveals mobile data breach, passport numbers potentially exposed
10:50 31 August
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Air Canada has notified customers of a data breach involving the airline's mobile application which may have led to the exposure of passport details belonging to 20,000 customers....
North Korea-linked Hackers Stole $13.5 Million From Cosmos Bank
13:45 27 August
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The North Korea-linked hacking group Lazarus is said to have stolen $13.5 million in a recent cyber-attack targeting SWIFT/ATM infrastructure of Cosmos Bank. ...
Adams County, Wisconsin – suffered a data breach that lasted for 6 years – Now what?
13:59 21 August
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Adams County, Wisconsin announced that they have discovered a data breach of potentially all of their 250,000 + residents...
President signs NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act into law
11:50 20 August
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A year and nearly four months after the measure was introduced, the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act officially passed after President Donald Trump signed the legislation into law.Originally proposed as H.R. 2105 in April 2017, the act was later absorbed into U.S. federal law S.770,...
Atlanta ransomware recovery cost now at $17 million, reports say
13:31 06 August
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The cost to rebuild Atlanta's computer network after it was hit with ransomware continues to climb.The tab is now at $17M, almost 6x the initial estimate....
Phishing attack compromised the data of 1.4 million UnityPoint Health patients
09:33 03 August
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Phishing attack: UnityPoint Health in Des Moines, Iowa, is warning patients of a data breach that could impact 1.4 million patients....
Telefonica breach leaves data on millions exposed
10:40 17 July
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Hackers exploited a flaw at Spanish operator Telefonica early Monday and likely exposed all the personal data of millions of the company's customers.Identity and payment information – including land line and mobile numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, banks, names and records of calls and other...
IBM Reveals High Cost Of Data Breaches
10:29 16 July
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IBM and the Ponemon Institute are out with a new study: Hidden Costs of Data Breaches Increase Expenses for Businesses – Study for First Time Calculates the Full Cost of “Mega Breaches,” as High as $350 Million. Among key findings:Average cost of a data breach of 1 million...
U.K. privacy regulators fine Facebook $660,000 in Cambridge Analytica scandal
10:24 11 July
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Facebook's failure to ensure that Cambridge Analytica had deleted user data will cost it £500,000 ($663,306), according to the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office, which also intends to open a criminal case against the data analytics firm....