Tag: data breach
Social Engineering: Life Blood of Data Exploitation (Phishing)
What do Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and Frank Abigail all have in common, aside from the obvious fact that they...
Biggest ICO Fine! British Airways Fined £20 Mn over 2018 Data...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the U.K. fined British Airways (BA) £20 million (approximately US$26 million) for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive...
Only 1 in 4 Organizations Keep Payment Data Secure
Even though COVID-19 has brought its fair share of limelight on cybersecurity, cardholder payment data continues to be far from secure. According to new...
COVID-19 Becomes an Enabler for Better Cybersecurity for SMBs
Even though COVID-19 saw an unprecedented number of layoffs and budget cuts for enterprises across the world, cybersecurity remained to be one of the...
Anthem to Pay $39.5 to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit
Health insurer Anthem agreed to pay $39.5 million to settle another class action suit related to a cyberattack in 2015 that exposed the personal...
Microsoft’s Unsecured Bing Mobile App Exposes 6.5TB of Users’ Data
Microsoft’s Bing mobile app exposed users’ sensitive information through an unsecured Elastic server. According to researchers at WizCase, the misconfigured server leaked Bing’s mobile...
92% U.S. Organizations Suffered Data Breach Due to Vulnerabilities in Vendor...
A study from cybersecurity solutions provider BlueVoyant revealed that 92% of organizations in the U.S. suffered a security breach last year due to vulnerabilities...
India: COVID-19 Surveillance Tool Exposes PII of 8 Mn Users
A COVID-19 surveillance tool in the Indian state Uttar Pradesh inadvertently exposed the personal information of over eight million people. According to vpnMentor’s researchers,...
PII of 46,000 U.S. Veterans Compromised in a Data Breach
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Management disclosed a data breach incident that exposed the sensitive information of around 46,000 veterans....
Email Marketing Company Mailfire Exposes PII of Dating Site Users
An anonymous ethical hacker found an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing private data of hundreds of thousands of users of over 70 adult dating and...
