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Data breaches in 2020 decreased by 48% but the number of records exposed have exceeded 37 billion.
RICHMOND, VA, January 21, 2020 — Risk Based Security today released their 2020 Year End Data Breach QuickView Report, revealing that there were 3,932 publicly reported data breaches, compromising over 37 billion records. Compared to 2019, the number of publicly reported breach events decreased by 48%. However, the total number of records compromised increased by 141% […]
Prevent a Pfizer-like PII Data Breach in Google Cloud
This post was originally published by amol sarwate In the long saga of systemic PII data breaches, Pfizer is the latest victim. Personally identifiable information, or PII, is any data that could potentially identify a particular person. Examples of PII information include a full name, address, identifiers like driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers, or email […]
Three Million payment card information of Dickeys BBQ sold on Dark Web
Joker’s Stash a fraudulent online bazaar which sells data breach information has released a new batch of info on its website and stated that 90% of data is still active and thus being sold for a fancy amount. What it means is that the mafia driven website is selling card information to hackers and those […]
No US Voter Registration data breaches… yet
Although those news resources belonging to Russia are spreading misinformation on the social media that the US Vote Registration database was hacked and the information is been circulating on the dark web from the past couple of days, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) has released a press statement or rather was forced to […]
More than 50k Australian Driving Licenses leaked online
In what is supposed to be a massive data breach in the history of New South Wales(NSW), Australia, driving licenses of over 50,000 populace were leaked online after hackers got access to the information stored on Amazon Cloud Storage services. Bob Diachenko, the security consultant from Ukraine, got hold of the data after it was […]
India Paytm Mall suffers data breach leaking passwords
Indian online retailer Paytm Mall, that according to Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is a platform crafted as “Pay to Modi”(A financial platform developed to pay to Indian Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi) is in news for all wrong reasons. A Cybersecurity firm named Cyble says that the Vijay Shekar Sharma led company suffered a […]
Data Breach on Clubillion Gambling app puts millions of users to risk
A popular gaming app titled Clubillion is in news for putting millions of users to risk due to a massive data leak. According to a research carried out by vpnMentor, the sensitive data related to Clubillion Gambling app built on the Elasticsearch Engine of AWS database was leaked because of a technical glitch throwing details […]
Wishbone App data leak impacts 40 million users
Wishbone app which allows teenage girls to compare fashion, music, celebrity, and other instances, has made it official that a recent hack on its database could have leaked passwords of its 40 million users. News is also out that the leaked data is available on some online forums for just 0.85 Bitcoins which accounts for […]
Ukraine busts hacker behind 773 million password breach of Americans and Europeans
Ukraine has released an official statement yesterday saying that the law enforcement authorities have taken a person named Sanix into custody in association with a password breach related to over 773 million European and American populace. Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says that the hacker was convicted about a hack involving 1 million unique […]
Most of the Cyber Attacks can be curtailed says Verizon
A recent report released by Verizon says that most of the cyber attacks targeting companies can be curtailed if companies and individuals implement computer security patching at the right intervals. The Verizon Business Annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) says that most of the data breaches are motivated for financial gain and in the past […]
