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Bank employee responsible for data breach; he sold customers’ information in dark web

Officials at Sberbank Rossi, the largest Russian bank, have revealed some details about their investigation of a data breach that would have...

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2018 British Airways Breach: £183-Million Fine Imposed

British Airways is now in hot water, as they are facing a £183-million fine in order to compensate the 2018 data breach...

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Oregon Department of Human Services Suffered a Data Breach

Personal data of more than 645,000 Oregon, Department of Human Services (DHS) were exposed during a data breach that occurred in January...

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Privacy Act: 5 Important GDPR Requirements to Remember

In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced by the European Union (EU) to protect its citizens from the...

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Data Breach Hits Desjardins, 2.7 Million People Affected

A data breach that hit the Desjardins Group has affected around 2.7 million people. Reports say that more than 40 percent of...

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Zuckerberg’s Old Emails Could Reveal He Knew About Flawed Privacy Practices

Facebook’s fate now involves controversies that have ignited after the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Following all the data-breach issues, Facebook could now land...

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Data Breach Hits Australian Tech Unicorn Canva

A massive data breach has hit Canva, the Australian tech unicorn based in Sydney. It was ZDNet that reported, on May 24,...

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Data Breaches in Healthcare Comes From Within

We always come across reports of serious security breaches in the health service, and the number has steadily increased. More than a...

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Outlook Hack Microsoft Informs Users of Breach

Microsoft has started notifying some Outlook.com users that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. The software...

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Settlement At Last: The Never-Ending Yahoo Nightmare

The nightmare of Yahoo is still not ending, this is because their planned settlement agreement with its customers affected by a data...

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Data Breach at Georgia Tech Impacts 1.3 Million People

Georgia Tech (The Georgia Institute of Technology) has announced detection of a data breach that impacted 1.3 million people. A Georgia Tech...

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Commonwealth Floats Increased Penalties For Privacy Breaches

It was in November, 2012, when the first time The Australian Privacy Commissioner announced that under a new law, it will be...

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All about Data Breaches, How They Happen and Their Impact

Data breaches have become very common, a data breach is no longer news- you may say! Yes, this is true, to a...

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Business Interruption Again Top Business Risk in Singapore

Business interruption once again becomes the top business risk in Singapore, according to a recent report. It is the eighth annual Allianz...

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Moody’s will include cybersecurity risks in corporate credit ratings

The rating agency will evaluate the propensity of large organizations to suffer information security incidents A data breach, depending on the magnitude...

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North Carolina to Make Ransomware Attack Disclosure a Must

A new legislation that has been announced by North Carolina’s Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine would soon make ransomware...

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The Data Breach Hits Marriott Hotels Group Exposes 5 Million Guest Details

Late last year, we have featured here in Hackercombat.com the story about Marriot International Hotel chain data breach and the resulting accusation...