Reverb suffers data breach unknown in size or impact
It seems the company has been hit with a data breach that included names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails. This information was publicly accessible for a “short period of time.”
7 ways to protect against data breaches of your app
You need to have a comprehensive technology security plan to ensure that your software is as safe as possible. These tips will help you get started with app development cybersecurity.
Data breaches: Why and how to handle the attack
Failure to handle data breaches properly can lead to immediate resignations and firing of people in managerial posts.
Infographic: Data theft — protecting your data in 2020
A quarter of stolen laptops are stolen from cars, while 14% are lost on airplanes. Only a quarter are ever recovered.
BioStar 2 data breach: How IGA failures could not have prevented it from happening
In the “Advice from the Experts” section, vpnMentor recommends implementing proper access rules on databases.
Report says 80 million American households affected by unknown data breach
vpnMentor says this open database is a threat to everyone included in it. Access to your full name can help hackers calculate and guess a variety of other data needed to steal identities.
Second data breach causing Google to sunset Google+ sooner
If you’ve been hanging onto Google+, like some of us have been, there’s no better time than the present to move on to other social media networks.
Amazon data breach hits company just days before the Black Friday rush
The data breach has been confirmed by Amazon and involves users email addresses and names.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia suffers email data breach exposing patient health information
The hospital identified the first incident August 24, 2018, when an unauthorized user hacked into the hospital’s physician email account system a day earlier.
Google data breach undisclosed, “consumer” Google+ to be shuttered as result
In addition to the privacy breach, Google mentioned low user engagement as reasons for shutting down “consumer” Google+
United Kingdom based Dixons Carphone suffers substantial data breach
Dixons Carphone says that the data breach goes as far back as July 2017 but did not say when they first detected it.
Equifax officially revealed the extent of its data breach — and it’s not pretty
Even the earliest stories about this breach, as they broke, were clear that the scope of the incident was vast.
Orbitz data breach sees 880,000 payment card details stolen
The company says the hackers gained access to the information between October 1st and December 22nd, 2017. The stolen data was information from Jan 1st through June 22nd of 2016.
Yahoo discloses 2nd data breach, this time it affects 1 billion accounts
Yahoo has just disclosed a 2nd data breach adding to its previous 500 million.
Yahoo said to announce massive data breach soon
The announcement is expected to be made sometime this week.
Shapeways alerts customers to data breach
When logging into the site, users are once again prompted to change their password, though if you’ve logged into the site with your Google or Facebook account, no action should be necessary at this time.
The 10 biggest data breaches infographic
Data breaches are becoming common place, and that really is a shame. From LastPass to Vtech and Apple to Blizzard, here are 10 of the biggest … Read more…
Kmart Australia Hacked Exposing Customer Data
Kmart Australia has been hacked and customer information has been breached. Names, email addresses, delivery and billing addresses, telephone numbers and product purchase details were compromised. … Read more…
Experian Data Breach Affects 15m Users Including Some T-Mobile Customers
The data breach reports just keep rolling in, it feels like a weekly thing lately more than a monthly thing. This time an Experian data … Read more…
CVS Online Photo Shut Down After Data Breach
CVS’s online photo service has been shut down due to a possible data breach the company said on Friday. The company said that customers who … Read more…
Walmart Canada Photocentre & Mobile Apps Offline After Potential Compromise
The Walmart Canada Photocentre has been taken offline by the company after being informed of a potential compromise of customer credit card data on the … Read more…
China Hacks The US Government Employee Database
This new age of cyber warfare has been taken to a new level as China hacks the US Government employee database. That’s right, every person … Read more…
Slack Hacked, Usernames And E-mail Addresses May Have Been Compromised
If you had Slack on your “Next to get Hacked” Bingo card, go ahead and mark them off. Today, the official blog of the real-time … Read more…
Target Data Breach Victims Could Get Up To $10K
The 2013 Target data breach was one of the biggest in recent history affecting 110 million Target customers. Since then we’ve gone through a variety … Read more…
Premera Blue Cross Data Breach May Affect 11M Users
Here we go again, yet another data breach and yet another breach not found until months after the actual breach occurred. The victim this time … Read more…
Uber Reports Data Breach, 50,000 Drivers Affected
Did you have Uber in Data Breach Bingo? If so, you can mark them off your card as Uber reported yesterday that the personal information … Read more…
Reports: Minecraft Data Breach Affects Users
German website heise online is reporting a Minecraft data breach that affects at least 1800 users. The breach is thought to have happened through a phishing … Read more…
USPS Data Breach Hits Employees Hard, Bank And Medical Records Compromised
Back in November we reported on the USPS data breach that was said to have affected both USPS employees and some customers. Now we know … Read more…
