Data breach stories - Page 15

Beauty retailer Sephora urges customers across Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to change their passwords after a data breach exposed personal information.

Heavy fines of GBP £183.39 million for British Airways and GBP £99.2 million for Marriott underscore the critical need for immediate cybersecurity investment.

The man behind the popular breach checking website Have I Been Pwned is stepping down from his esteemed post as sole manager of the site.

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency has been responsible for the leaking of tens of thousands of images of travellers and license plates.

One in three CEOs would fire staff responsible for a data breach, finds Nominet's report on the cyber challenges and leadership gaps facing large enterprises.

Flipboard suffered a major data breach, compromising users' names, email addresses, and passwords. The breach went unnoticed for over nine months.

This follows the opposition party’s unexpected release of details of the Government’s Budget, which were due to be made public on Thursday.

Salesforce faces backlash after a major outage left EU and North America customers' data vulnerable, with permissions issues causing significant disruptions.

Binance has been hacked, losing 7000 Bitcoin (USD $41 million) from its BTC hot wallet. Customer funds remain safe, covered by its Secure Asset Fund.

A new McAfee report reveals 61% of IT professionals have faced serious data breaches in their current jobs, highlighting persistent cybersecurity challenges.

Yahoo proposes USD $117.5m settlement for breaches impacting billions. Judge Lucy Koh's approval will determine if it's truly sufficient to address the fallout.

Uber’s chief information security officer John ‘Four’ Flynn has a career history that many technologists could only dream of.

Facebook's reputation takes another hit as 540 million user records are exposed due to misconfigured AWS servers.

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers’ records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Kathmandu is notifying potentially affected customers directly and has advised them to change their passwords for its online loyalty programme.

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

Of the 11.5 million individuals affected by healthcare breaches in 2018, 67% had their information exposed by hacking and IT incidents.

Following the introduction of the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme (NDB) last year, a survey of ANZ businesses has revealed some concerning findings.

Redscan’s data reveals most data breach reports were late and incomplete, and that GDPR is not necessarily the panacea solution.