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Officials at Sberbank Rossi, the largest Russian bank, have revealed some details about their investigation of a data breach that would have affected at least 200 users of the bank. According to reports from information security experts, the bank detected the incident last October 2. However, additional local media reports mention that the 200 affected […]
British Airways is now in hot water, as they are facing a £183-million fine in order to compensate the 2018 data breach it experienced. The airline company expressed its dissatisfaction of the decision, as it claims all the necessary mitigations were in-place, and it is just an unfortunate victim of cyber criminals. The announcement of […]
Personal data of more than 645,000 Oregon, Department of Human Services (DHS) were exposed during a data breach that occurred in January 2019, the department said yesterday. The data breach was initially reported to the authorities when it was estimated that there were more than 350,000 people affected, a number that has been significantly revised. […]
A data breach that hit the Desjardins Group has affected around 2.7 million people. Reports say that more than 40 percent of clients and members of the Quebec-based credit union Desjardins have been affected by a recent data breach. A Facebook update by the Desjardins Group says that on June 14, 2019, the co-operative was […]
In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced by the European Union (EU) to protect its citizens from the misuse of their personal data. This breakthrough regulation completely changed the way that companies would handle personal data and laid down the GDPR requirements that companies worldwide must follow. GDPR compliance must strictly […]
Facebook’s fate now involves controversies that have ignited after the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Following all the data-breach issues, Facebook could now land up in a new one — courtesy — Mark Zuckerberg’s old emails. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s employees (close to the matter) have found old emails that suggest […]
A massive data breach has hit Canva, the Australian tech unicorn based in Sydney. It was ZDNet that reported, on May 24, 2019, the hack that had happened earlier that day. The hacker, known by the name GnosticPlayers, had tipped off ZDNet that during the breach at the Sydney-based start-up, data for roughly 139 million […]
We always come across reports of serious security breaches in the health service, and the number has steadily increased. More than a hundred thousand health records were exposed or stolen during this period, affecting the life of the people. This isn’t typical, either. Of all large data breaches across all sectors, hospitals accounted for around […]
Microsoft has started notifying some Outlook.com users that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. The software giant discovered that a support agent’s credentials were compromised for its web mail service, allowing unauthorized access to some accounts between January 1st and March 28th, 2019. Microsoft says the hackers could have […]
The nightmare of Yahoo is still not ending, this is because their planned settlement agreement with its customers affected by a data breach episode was shut down by U.S. California District Court Judge Lucy Koh. Judge Koh arrived at her decision given that Yahoo is a settlement with the victims of the data breach with […]
Georgia Tech (The Georgia Institute of Technology) has announced detection of a data breach that impacted 1.3 million people. A Georgia Tech notification, dated April 2, 2019, says, “Georgia Tech discovered that unauthorized access to a web application has exposed personal information for up to 1.3 million individuals, including current and former faculty, students, staff, […]
It was in November, 2012, when the first time The Australian Privacy Commissioner announced that under a new law, it will be able to issue million-dollar fines to government agencies, and companies for serious and repeated privacy breaches. The Commonwealth Attorney at that time was -General Nicola Roxon. He stated this move to be the […]
Data breaches have become very common, a data breach is no longer news- you may say! Yes, this is true, to a very great extent. But, let’s look at the other side of it. As data breaches turn increasingly common, governments, organizations and individual users are also stepping up defenses to combat the breaches. Stricter […]
Business interruption once again becomes the top business risk in Singapore, according to a recent report. It is the eighth annual Allianz Risk Barometer published by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) that has made this revelation about the Singapore business scenario. South-east Asia’s leading financial daily The Business Times reports, “BUSINESS interruption has re-emerged […]
The rating agency will evaluate the propensity of large organizations to suffer information security incidents A data breach, depending on the magnitude of the incident, and its corresponding fines or infringements, could sentence to death an organization, commented experts in network security and ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Moody’s, the investment […]
A new legislation that has been announced by North Carolina’s Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine would soon make ransomware attack disclosure mandatory in North Carolina. The proposed legislation, which is designed to strengthen North Carolina’s identity theft protection law, includes ransomware attacks as security breaches which would require organizations in the state […]
Late last year, we have featured here in Hackercombat.com the story about Marriot International Hotel chain data breach and the resulting accusation against China allegedly being the one behind the attack, which Beijing denied. Seems like the story continues to thicken, as the hotel chain’s leadership itself admitted that around 5 million passport records have […]
We are only starting the second week of 2019, but Australia’s government already experienced its first data breach of the year. Around 30,000 personal information of government staff working for the Victorian government was breached. The infiltration incident stole employees and officials’ records containing their full name, phone numbers, work email addresses and job titles. […]
Password managers are heaven sent for many users, as it provides the convenience of having a secure password repository for managing multiple complex passwords. However, given that password managers contains passwords for many systems and web services, it is basically like placing all the eggs on one basket. Add an insecure online support to it, […]
The Malaysian bank CIMB has denied security breach affecting its online banking portal, despite thousands of customers complaining of a hack. The Kuala Lumpur-headquartered CIMB, which is the fifth largest banking group in ASEAN and the second largest bank in Malaysia, refuted on Monday all allegations that there has been a security breach affecting its […]
As reported in Hacker news, British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 (~ 1.1 million) for failing to protect its customers’ personal information during a 2016 cyber-attack involving millions of users. Late last year, Uber unveiled that the company had suffered a massive data […]