Tag: Data Breaches
Whistle-Blower Reports to ICO Increase by 34% in the Last Year
Ever since the GDPR was introduced, disclosure of security incidents via whistle-blower reports has increased significantly. According to a report from RPC, a legal...
Publicly Reported Data Breaches Stand at its Lowest Point in 5...
A research from Risk Based Security highlighted that the number of publicly reported data breaches declined in the last five years, while the number...
Repository Blunder! GitHub Data Leak Incidents Impact Over 200,000 U.S. Patients
Netherlands-based ethical hacker Jelle Ursem, in association with Databreaches.net, uncovered nine data breach incidents at multiple health care providers. The data breach exposed medical...
E-Learning Platforms Continue to Suffer Data Breaches; 1 Mn Records Exposed
Security researchers from WizCase discovered unprotected databases belonging to multiple e-learning platforms that were exposed online without password protection. The unencrypted databases leaked personally...
More Than Half of Canadians Have Been a Victim of Cyberattacks
A new survey from the Cybersecure Policy Exchange (CPX) at Ryerson University in Toronto revealed that nearly 57% of Canadians have been the victims...
From Data Breach to Darknet: Hackers Trade Over 15 Bn Stolen...
Security experts from risk protection solutions provider Digital Shadows found threat actors trading more than 15 billion usernames and passwords, including over 5 billion...
7 in 10 Organizations Suffer Public Cloud Security Breach
A cloud security survey by cybersecurity firm Sophos revealed that 70% of organizations suffered at least one public cloud security breach in 2019, including...
U.S. Schools Suffer Over 1,300 Data Breaches Since 2005
A research from technology website Comparitech revealed that K–12 school districts and colleges across the U.S. have suffered over 1,300 data breaches since 2005....
California Consumer Privacy Act Puts Additional Pressure on Financial Organizations
A survey from cybersecurity firm Netwrix revealed that the execution of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will put additional pressure on IT resources...
Infamous Magecart Attack Hits Government Websites of 8 U.S. Cities
Security researchers from Trend Micro revealed that threat actors compromised government websites of eight U.S. cities across three states through Magecart card skimming attack....
