Quora data breach: 100 million users affected
Question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a data breach that may have affected approximately 100 million of its users. About Quora Quora was founded in June 2009 by …
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Industry reactions to the enormous Marriott data breach
On September 8, 2018, Marriott received an alert from an internal security tool regarding an attempt to access the Starwood guest reservation database in the United States. …
Third parties: Fast-growing risk to an organization’s sensitive data
The Ponemon Institute surveyed more than 1,000 CISOs and other security and risk professionals across the US and UK to understand the challenges companies face in protecting …
Consumers would stop engaging with a brand online following a breach
Ping Identity surveyed more than 3,000 people across the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany to find out what they expect from brands when it comes to the …
Reported breaches in the first 9 months of 2018 exposed 3.6 billion records
There have been 3,676 publicly disclosed data compromise events through September 30. Breach activity continues at a consistent pace for 2018, which although significant in …
Attackers breached Statcounter to steal cryptocurrency from gate.io users
Web analytics company Statcounter and cryptocurrency exchange gate.io have been compromised in another supply-chain attack, which resulted in an unknown number of gate.io …
Anthem will pay $16 million to settle HIPAA violation due to 2015 breach
Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and take substantial corrective action to settle …
Facebook data breach: Victims will not be offered free identity theft protection
Facebook announced that the recent data breach it has suffered is a little less massive than initially thought: “only” 30 million users have been affected. But, …
Hackers steal Pentagon personnel’s PI and credit card data
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Friday that personal information and credit card data of some 30,000 U.S. military and civilian personnel has been compromised in a …
945 data breaches led to compromise of 4.5 billion data records in first half of 2018
Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being …
