data breach
Most of US IT professionals asked to stay silent about data breaches
Data breach reporting is mandatory and, as per some prevailing laws, any incident that goes unreported for a while can lead to the arrest of the technology head of the victimized company. However, if we take practical stats into account in the United States, they are different and contrary to what is existing in paper. […]
UK Data Regulator publishes information of firms hit by data breaches
Next time when you are hit by a cyber attack, you better be aware that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) will soon make the information public by posting it on its website. Yes, this is what the ICO has decided as it believes that naming and shaming will make company heads take measures to […]
Data Breach of Victorian Populace in Australia taken seriously
Data of Australian Victorian Populace appears to be exposed, as a technology company managing and serving was infiltrated by hackers on Wednesday last week. PNORS Technology Group, is the company that witnessed a compromise of its computer network recently, apparently spilling sensitive details to hackers. PNORS owns about 5-companies and information is out that hackers […]
Ransomware attack news trending on Google
First is the news related to a new ransomware variant named Lilith that struck its first victim early last week. Information is out that the Lilith Ransomware group stole the details of its victim before encrypting the entire database. And since the victim failed to pay a ransom, the Lilith group posted the details on […]
Russia could have hacked the UK Spy agency says MoD
UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has released a press statement that few of its servers might have been compromised by hackers believed to be working for the Russian government. The suspicion finger pointed out towards Kremlin as the cyber crooks stolen classical data related to 100 British Army recruits who were working in other nations […]
Company asks customers to delete credit card info after data breach
A Caribbean based company is urging its customers to delete credit card info saved onto its website after it detected a data breach on its servers. Aeropost, Inc that is into the business of logistics and e-commerce, is asking its customers to delete all card related info saved onto the company’s account, respectively. Details about […]
T-Mobile pays $200,000 to buy its customer data from hackers
T-Mobile suffered a data breach last year and tried to buy its data back from hackers after paying an amount of $200,000 against the demanded 6 BTC. But it seems the negotiations failed and the cyber crooks continued their activity of selling the data in a freshly breached hack of the firm named Company 3. […]
Ericsson serious about the data breach and data leak to media
Ericsson, the Sweden-based Telecom Company that was involved in the 2019 money laundering case with a terrorist organization, seems to be serious about some of the internal documents being leaking to Swedish and international news outlets. According to a highly placed source the senior level management of the company is miffed with the reports claiming […]
About 300,000 patient data leaked in data breach of SuperCare Health
SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. And the notice says that a security incident hit the company on July 27th, 2021 when hackers fraudulently accessed its system for 5 complete days, i.e. from July 23rd to July […]
Meta faces $19m fine over Data Breach
Facebook parent company Meta has been slapped with a fine of €17 million or $19m by the Irish data watchdog. And the reason for the penalty issuance is that the company failed to maintain certain security standards while protecting the information of EU public. As Meta failed to comply with the latest GDPR rules of […]
