Data breach stories - Page 14

Salesforce faces backlash after a major outage left EU and North America customers' data vulnerable, with permissions issues causing significant disruptions.

Binance has been hacked, losing 7000 Bitcoin (USD $41 million) from its BTC hot wallet. Customer funds remain safe, covered by its Secure Asset Fund.

A new McAfee report reveals 61% of IT professionals have faced serious data breaches in their current jobs, highlighting persistent cybersecurity challenges.

Yahoo proposes USD $117.5m settlement for breaches impacting billions. Judge Lucy Koh's approval will determine if it's truly sufficient to address the fallout.

Uber’s chief information security officer John ‘Four’ Flynn has a career history that many technologists could only dream of.

Facebook's reputation takes another hit as 540 million user records are exposed due to misconfigured AWS servers.

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers’ records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Kathmandu is notifying potentially affected customers directly and has advised them to change their passwords for its online loyalty programme.

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

Of the 11.5 million individuals affected by healthcare breaches in 2018, 67% had their information exposed by hacking and IT incidents.

Following the introduction of the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme (NDB) last year, a survey of ANZ businesses has revealed some concerning findings.

Redscan’s data reveals most data breach reports were late and incomplete, and that GDPR is not necessarily the panacea solution.

Asia Pacific firms face high cyber breach costs, with 17% incurring financial hits over USD $5 million. Yet, 39% limited impacts to under USD $500,000.

Australian and New Zealand IT professionals see their organisations' cybersecurity as adequate, but believe improvements can be made, says CompTIA.

617 million records from sites like MyFitnessPal, Whitepages, and Fotolog are being sold on the dark web for BTC $20,000. Passwords are encrypted.

Late last week, Australian security agencies reported they were looking into a security breach of the Federal Parliament’s network.

Australians must move away from victim-blaming culture in order to improve cybersecurity, says Palo Alto Networks.

Since GDPR's inception in May 2018, over 59,000 data breaches have been reported, leading to 91 fines, including a EUR €50 million fine for Google.

The OIAC received 262 notifications in the three months, the highest number since the commencement of the NDB scheme.