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Equifax Cyber Attack might financially help it in return!
All these days many media resources reported the news related to the cyber attack on Equifax and its data breach concerns. But did anyone pay attention to the point that the credit reporting agency is actually benefiting from the said data breach- if not now, in near future…? This was exactly the point raised by […]
Hacks on Servers and Cloud Databases exposes over 1 billion records
IBM X Force, a firm which analysis malware on cloud platforms has discovered in its research that hacks on servers and cloud databases has so far exposed over 1 billion records to cyber crooks. The company which has been tracking publicly disclosed data breaches since 2013 concludes that the leak has occurred mostly through trivial […]
Cyber Attack on SEC helps hackers make profits through illegal trade
United States market regulator ‘The Security and Exchanges Commission’ has disclosed that hackers could have hacked its corporate disclosure database in 2016 to obtain critical info which could have been used to make profits by illegal trading. The financial regulator of US added in its statement that the incident could have taken place at some […]
More than 100,000 Canadians affected by the cyber attack on Equifax!
Equifax has released an official confirmation late yesterday that more than 100,000 Canadians were affected by the cyber attack which targeted its database almost two months ago. The US-based Credit Agency has also assured that it will offer a public update by this weekend on the impact of the data breach which was disclosed to […]
Yahoo to face litigation after more than 1 billion users’ info was leaked in Cyber Attack
Yahoo is said to face legal charges after more than 1 billion users information was leaked in a cyber attack. This includes names, emails, phone numbers, passwords and security questions. Yahoo was found guilty for being slow to disclose the attacks as it waited 3 years before revealing details about the first attack. Readers of […]
‘Have I been pwned’ helps know data breaches
Are you interested in knowing the details of all those compromised passwords which you’ve been using on some web services accounts? Then “Have I been pwned” can help you in doing so. “Have I been pwned” is basically a website which helps all web service users to find out if the passwords which they are […]
verizon breach: how cloud encryption can save your data
This post was originally published here by Chantelle Patel. As has been widely reported, Verizon is the latest enterprise to be hit with a large-scale data breach. Over 14 million customer records were left exposed due to a misconfiguration in Verizon’s Amazon Web Services(AWS) instance. Among the leaked information were logs containing customer names, cell phone numbers, and […]
Ashley Madison agrees to pay $11.2 million as Cyber Attack settlement
Toronto based Ashley Madison has officially agreed to pay $11.2 million as cyber attack settlement in response to an American Class Action lawsuit which stemmed from a massive security breach which took place 2 years ago. However, the proposed settlement is yet to get the approval of United States District Court for the Eastern District […]
Cyber Attack leaks credit card numbers of Trump Hotel Customers
Trump International Hotels Management LLC issued a public statement on its website yesterday that a data breach which occurred at its IT service providers has compromised card payment details of customers at 14 of its properties, including hotels in Washington, New York, and Vancouver. The details forwarded to the press on Thursday say that the […]
Amazon Storage leaks personal data of 14 million Verizon Customers
Personal data of more than 14 million Verizon customers was leaked on Tuesday this week due to a misconfiguration on Amazon Web Services storage bucket. Hence, cyber incidents such as this highlight the importance of data protection practices on cloud platforms. The security lapse was discovered by a research firm called UpGuard. And as per […]
