data breach

Over the past few years, we have seen a spike in major data breaches from noteworthy businesses such as Target, Home Depot, and Sony (to just name a few). While data breaches …

FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued a public service announcement warning users about email extortion attempts related to recent high-profile data thefts. …

Vormetric announced the results of the European Edition of the 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report. It focuses on responses from IT security leaders in European organisations, …

Phineas Fisher, the hacker behing the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches and data leaks, is at it again. This time his target was Sindicat de Mossos …

A hacker has put up a batch of info about 167 million LinkedIn accounts for sale on dark web marketplace The Real Deal. Of these, some 117 million records contain email …

According to BDO’s analysis of risk factors listed in the most recent 10-K filings of the 100 largest US retailers, risk associated with a possible security breach was …

It’s a turbulent time for the healthcare industry: patient data is under siege and hospitals are big targets for cyber attacks, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes …

High-profile data breaches are negatively impacting consumer trust in major brands, according to a new FireEye report. 76 percent of respondents would likely take their …

A troubling 73 percent of organizations have been plagued by at least one security breach or incident in the past year, with about 60 percent of breaches categorized as …

Canadian gold-mining company Goldcorp has suffered a data breach of seemingly catastrophic proportions. On Tuesday, the attackers leaked a lot of sensitive internal data about …

Minecraft community fansite “Lifeboat” has admitted that it suffered a data breach in January, after security researcher Troy Hunt added some of the stolen data to …

A ZIP file containing information supposedly stolen in a hack of the Qatar National Bank has been published on whistleblower site Cryptome on Tuesday. The contents of the …