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59K Data Breaches Reported, 91 Fines Imposed Since GDPR Enactment

More than 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported to Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) across Europe by both public and privately-owned organizations since EU's GDPR was passed on May 25, 2018. Google's €50 million fine from January. was the largest ever imposed.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 06, 2019
- 05:04 PM
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Basecamp Successfully Defends Against Credential Stuffing Attack

Basecamp successfully blocked an hour-long credential stuffing attack targeting its platform on January 29, with only around 100 out of the company's advertised user base of approximately 3 million accounts being affected.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 31, 2019
- 04:30 PM
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Airbus Data Breach Exposes Employee Credentials, Professional Contact Details

Commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced a data breach incident that impacted the company's "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems and led to third parties gaining unauthorized access to data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 30, 2019
- 04:33 PM
- 0
Discover Card Users Affected by Data Breach, New Credit Cards Issued

Discover Financial Services learned that a number of Discover card accounts might have been part of a data breach according to a notice filed on January 25, 2019, with the California Attorney General's office
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 28, 2019
- 06:35 PM
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GDPR Compliance Lowers Data Breach Frequency and Impact Says Report

Companies that follow the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) experience extra benefits such as lower frequency and effect of data breaches, as well as fewer records being impacted in the attacks, shorter downtimes and lower overall costs
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 24, 2019
- 08:00 AM
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Over 140 International Airlines Affected by Major Security Breach

Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the Amadeus online booking system
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 16, 2019
- 12:02 PM
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Netbooks, RPis, & Bash Bunny Gear - Attacking Banks from the Inside

Multiple banks in Eastern Europe have been attacked from inside their network via various electronic devices connected directly to the company's own infrastructure, security researchers have discovered.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 07, 2018
- 02:36 AM
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The One Planet York Data Breach That Was a Data Leak

A data breach notification from the City of York has gone awry as new details shed light over the incident, revealing a completely inappropriate response to a responsible disclosure of a vulnerability potentially affecting thousands of users.
- Ionut Ilascu
- November 28, 2018
- 11:34 AM
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Mozilla Launches Firefox Monitor Data Breach Notification Service

Mozilla has announced today the release of Firefox Monitor, a free service to help users find out whether or not their accounts have been part of a breach. This new service was created in partnership with Troy Hunt's Have I been Pwned, whose data is being supplied to Mozilla to power the Firefox Monitor service.
- Mayank Parmar
- September 25, 2018
- 05:58 PM
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Malware Infection at HR Company Triggers Flurry of Data Breach Notifications

A security breach at one of the world's largest human resources providers, Australian company PageUp, has resulted in tens of companies that were using their services notifying employees and applicants today that their personal data might have been stolen last month.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 06, 2018
- 07:47 AM
- 0
Coca-Cola Suffers Breach at the Hands of Former Employee

The Coca-Cola company announced a data breach incident this week after a former employee was found in possession of worker data on a personal hard drive.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 25, 2018
- 06:45 PM
- 0
Police Drop Charges Against Canadian Teen Who Downloaded FOIA Documents

Halifax Regional Police announced today they would not be pressing charges against a 19-year-old teenager accused of hacking government systems.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 07, 2018
- 05:22 PM
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Exposed MongoDB Server Exposes Details of Cryptocurrency Users

Security researchers have stumbled across a MongoDB database containing the personal details of over 25,000 users who invested in or received Bezop (BEZ) cryptocurrency.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 26, 2018
- 01:40 PM
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Data Firm Left Profiles of 48 Million Users on a Publicly Accessible AWS Server

LocalBlox, a company that scrapes data from public web profiles, has left the details of over 48 million users on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, according to an UpGuard security researcher who discovered the data on February 28, this year.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 19, 2018
- 04:18 AM
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Teenager Charged For Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach

A 19 year old teenager was charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer' after downloading over 7,000 records from the Nova Scotia Freedom-of-Information web portal. The teenager whose name has not been released, has been accused of stealing documents from the portal, with many of them being publicly accessible and redacted.
- Allen Lydiard
- April 17, 2018
- 04:56 PM
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