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Major outage and government employee data breach
Ransomware keeps surfing the wave of ever-presence
Vestas got its personal data affected
The data has allegedly been shared with third parties.
French public transport company tackles a major data breach
RATP data has been exposed via an unprotected server.
The hacker turned out to be the former employee
Ubiquity has gone through a curious case
Panasonic is recovering from a 4-month exposure
The company detected the incident only after a discovery of an extreme network traffic.
Government employee helped violators to access data
Otario immunisation system has launched investigation and found an insider.
When your sellers obtain your data
Amazon program was misused by its sellers, and data was intended for rankings boosting. California Pizza Kitchen announces a data employee breach.
Robinhood employee tricked by social engineering
7 million users got their data affected in the breach announced by Robinhood.
Oregon state failed to ensure employees' privacy
And seemingly made it deliberately, at least according to the plaintiffs.
Throckmorton Country Memorial Hospital and Marten Transport face data breach
The recent news might be another case to add to the list of ransomware notches
Ransomware attacks keep companies on alert
The amount isn't disclosed as the hackers' groups haven't received the companies reaction yet
Acer offices in Taiwan hacked
This year the company has already faced a major incident as they were to pay a $50-million ransom.
Credit monitoring as most popular offset against data breach
Organisation still lack basic information security solutions.
Former employees took company's security issue to court
The company's staff is aware of what information security is, and disregard to data safety decreases the loyalty of workers.
Security research based on Indian SME recent experience
Malware attacks are on the rise
Afghan interpreters' data leaked due to an employee's mistake
The incident is gaining resonance
When a hack might be not such a bad thing
…where the bad and the good are twisted.
Government sector faces human factor data breach issue
Australian public sector is concerned with the growing number of information leakage episodes due to employee mistakes.
Dallas schools compromised by a city IT employee
Whereas a disgruntled former employee's case was brought to the court.
Bangkok Air dashes the ransom offer aside
The popular airline has declined the gang's demand
Former employees and foolhardy ransomware attackers
Several information security incidents which have happened recently are all based on utter carefreeness
Data breach cost rises in South Africa, ransomware incidents grow in Australia
Ransomware-related data breaches rose by 24%, the cost of a breach - by 15%.
T-Mobile hacked for the 5th time
The unauthorized access was detected a few days after a number of customers got their data affected.
Russian officials obliged to use only domestic messengers
Ministry of Digital Development prepares a regulatory framework for transferring state employees to state-owned platforms by December 2021.
Tokyo visitors' data affected
Olympics ticket holders and event volunteers' details have been compromised
Does an identity theft has an end or any terms?
Education workers of the Francophone Sud School District are dealing with identity theft.
Will or won't paying ransom be made illegal?
Another surge of ransom attacks makes the necessity to remind how slippery the way to deal with them is if you choose to pay.
DarkSide behind Guess breach
The famous fashion retailer Guess has officially announced a data breach comprising details of 1,300 people,
Air India is asked to recompense the breach
The affected customers might be given more than $400,000 for having their data impacted.
Call a hacker - he'll tell you about a breach
Don't have enough information about how the data breach occurred? Speak with the hacker who let it happen.
Treasurer’s office vs. mayor
Westfield clerk treasurer's office brought the case regarding the city's mayor act to court
JBS chose to pay ransom
JBS, the largest meat producer, paid a $11 million ransom, according to Andre Nogueira, chief executive of Brazilian JBS SA’s U.S. division
Euro 2020 fraudulent websites
It has been recently explored that since the beginning of the year there have been 130 new domains registered – all related to EURO 2020 (EURO 2021) tickets.
UK Special Forces soldiers aren't sure in their data safety
Over 1,000 UK Special Forces soldiers got their data exposed. The document containing their personal data was distributed via WhatsApp.
Microsoft is going to gather cyber security specialists in the APAC region
The APAC countries are concerned about growing information security risks
Targeting human vs. hacking software
85% of data breaches are the cause of targeting people, not software
Why is it important to control third-party security policies?
According to the recent report it seems that roughly half of companies don't know how to deal with third-party security
Microsoft threat and database security time bomb
Companies using Microsoft 365 might jeopardise their data safety and be more vulnerable than those who don't. 19 petabytes of data are exposed right now according to CyberNews.
Was there a breach?
Companies refuse to admit leakage accusing announcers of misleading its readers.
Shell goes through a data breach
Accellion service the company uses got destabilised by a hack
Why is the Telegram bot allowing you change Caller ID dangerous?
Telegram bot and the growing number of scammers
iPhones which weren't meant for selling
An employee of a recycling company profiteered from selling Apple products
ABSA leak might still have impact
How is ABSA bank doing after an employee’s security policy violation?
Signal replaces WhatsApp?
The most popular messenger has recently announced an update which made users question its necessity
Ex-employee takes data to a new job
SoftBank former employee took data to another company, whereas a Canadian firm Aurora Cannabis informed its staffers about breached personal data on the last day of the year.