Data breach stories - Page 13

Most Facebook users could have had their data scraped by cyber attackers, says the social network's chief technology officer.

Credit card data, medical records, payroll data, intellectual property and tax information are all available publicly online with no data protection.

Barracuda SVP Chris Ross talks about the results of a recent survey they ran following the Facebook fallout to determine the true cost.

Australia’s new mandatory data breach disclosure law has already shown just how regularly organisations are experiencing data breaches.

Asia Pacific organisations take over a year to detect cyber threats, the longest of any region, according to FireEye's M-Trends 2018 report.

A recent study from Gemalto proves it’s not just data that is lost following a breach – you’ll lose most of your customers too.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has released a statement following the revelation that data from 50 million people was misused.

A whistleblower has uncovered the practices of his illicit company, which include stealing the details of 50m Facebook users to help Trump's campaign.

Transactions happen online between two entities that will never see each other. This means trust matters even more as physical interactions disappear.

After the allegations about Emirates' customer data policies emerged, High-Tech Bridge ran a test on the site's security - with interesting results.

Multiple US officials have announced the intelligence community had evidence that states had been compromised by Russia but didn't tell anyone.

The battle of the breach continues to play out and at least 87% of Australian CIOs have experienced a breach in their own company.

Despite the low level of compliance, Forrester Research says these numbers are in fact 'encouraging' for a number of reasons.

Australia braces for new data breach rules, with fines looming for non-compliance.

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company’s massive US data breach last year.

Games organisers have reportedly admitted that its servers had been attacked, forcing them to shut down the official website.

Australians simply aren’t prepared for the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, even just with less than two weeks to go before the scheme takes effect.

IBM estimates the cost of a data breach is $3.62m, highlighting the importance of encryption - COMPAREX UK's expert on the matter provides his advice.

Experts say while Swisscom may be playing the huge breach down, the implications of the breach will be far and wide.

Octoly was informed of the exposed cloud repository on January 4th, yet the personally identifiable information was not secured until February 1st.

The NDB scheme will mean businesses could be facing penalties of up to $360,000 for individuals and $1.8 million for body corportates.

Popular car sharing service GoGet has been hit by a massive data breach that may affect all users who joined prior to July 27, 2017.

Some C-suite executives do not think they need training or education to spot attacks because they don’t think they would ever fall for an attack.

Australian organisations are likely to embrace mandatory data breach reporting requirements and most businesses believe it should be mandatory.