Data breach stories - Page 18

A whistleblower has uncovered the practices of his illicit company, which include stealing the details of 50m Facebook users to help Trump's campaign.

Transactions happen online between two entities that will never see each other. This means trust matters even more as physical interactions disappear.

After the allegations about Emirates' customer data policies emerged, High-Tech Bridge ran a test on the site's security - with interesting results.

Multiple US officials have announced the intelligence community had evidence that states had been compromised by Russia but didn't tell anyone.

The battle of the breach continues to play out and at least 87% of Australian CIOs have experienced a breach in their own company.

Despite the low level of compliance, Forrester Research says these numbers are in fact 'encouraging' for a number of reasons.

As the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act comes into effect, Aleron stresses prevention over cure to avoid hefty fines and loss of trust.

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company’s massive US data breach last year.

Games organisers have reportedly admitted that its servers had been attacked, forcing them to shut down the official website.

Australians simply aren’t prepared for the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, even just with less than two weeks to go before the scheme takes effect.

IBM estimates the cost of a data breach is $3.62m, highlighting the importance of encryption - COMPAREX UK's expert on the matter provides his advice.

Experts say while Swisscom may be playing the huge breach down, the implications of the breach will be far and wide.

Octoly was informed of the exposed cloud repository on January 4th, yet the personally identifiable information was not secured until February 1st.

The NDB scheme will mean businesses could be facing penalties of up to $360,000 for individuals and $1.8 million for body corportates.

Popular car sharing service GoGet has been hit by a massive data breach that may affect all users who joined prior to July 27, 2017.

Some C-suite executives do not think they need training or education to spot attacks because they don’t think they would ever fall for an attack.

Australian organisations are likely to embrace mandatory data breach reporting requirements and most businesses believe it should be mandatory.

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has congratulated participants in last year’s Cyber Security Challenge UK Masterclass Finals.

Australia’s complex mandatory data breach notification laws coming into effect in February. The security pressures of the digital age are evident.

The retailer has received a £400k fine after 'striking' security issues & systemic failures led to its 2015 breach - but experts say it's not enough.