Data breach stories - Page 16

Asia Pacific feeling financial brunt of breaches - but it's not all bad news
Mon, 11th Mar 2019
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Asia Pacific firms face high cyber breach costs, with 17% incurring financial hits over USD $5 million. Yet, 39% limited impacts to under USD $500,000.

CompTIA security study finds ANZ firms should invest more in employee training
Mon, 4th Mar 2019
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Australian and New Zealand IT professionals see their organisations' cybersecurity as adequate, but believe improvements can be made, says CompTIA.

617 million stolen records up for sale on dark web
Wed, 13th Feb 2019
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617 million records from sites like MyFitnessPal, Whitepages, and Fotolog are being sold on the dark web for BTC $20,000. Passwords are encrypted.

Experts comment on Aus Parliament breach
Mon, 11th Feb 2019
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Late last week, Australian security agencies reported they were looking into a security breach of the Federal Parliament’s network.

Blame culture only makes data breaches worse
Fri, 8th Feb 2019
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Australians must move away from victim-blaming culture in order to improve cybersecurity, says Palo Alto Networks.

GDPR: 59,000 breach reports, 91 fines and counting
Thu, 7th Feb 2019
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Since GDPR's inception in May 2018, over 59,000 data breaches have been reported, leading to 91 fines, including a EUR €50 million fine for Google.

Expert comment: Latest NDB report shows Aus is being targeted
Thu, 7th Feb 2019
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The OIAC received 262 notifications in the three months, the highest number since the commencement of the NDB scheme.

Police making progress into Cryptopia breach
Wed, 23rd Jan 2019
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New Zealand Police are progressing well in their probe into the Cryptopia breach, aiming to uncover the origins of the stolen US$3-16 million in cryptocurrency.

Penten & Cyber Security CRC to research 'advanced cyber traps'
Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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Penten teams up with the Cyber Security CRC to research AI-enhanced cyber traps for faster breach detection, aiming to bolster Australia's cyber defences.

Experts comment on record 772mil-user data breach
Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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Largest ever database of breached login details leaked on dark web, containing over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.

Updated: Chch crypto-exchange Cryptopia suffers breach
Thu, 17th Jan 2019
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Cryptopia has reportedly experienced a security breach that has taken the entire platform offline – and resulted in ‘significant losses’.

Report on SingHealth breach condemns poor security practices
Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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A report on SingHealth's 2018 data breach criticises inadequate security practices, revealing that staff missteps and system flaws left patient data exposed.

NordVPN rounds up the worst data breaches of 2018
Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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In 2018, over a billion people were impacted by data breaches. From British Airways to Marriott, NordVPN highlights the most severe security lapses.

Two top execs’ predictions for cybersecurity in 2019
Tue, 1st Jan 2019
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One Identity and Secureworks executives Alex Tilley and Serkan Cetin have released what they see coming for cybersecurity in 2019.

NASA got hacked (again)
Thu, 20th Dec 2018
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The compromised servers stored personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to current and former NASA employees.

Three things that will happen in 2019 – and one that will not
Thu, 20th Dec 2018
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Commvault's Nigel Tozer reflects on the year that's been and the one ahead with three predictions of what will be and one that won't.

Twitter suspects state-sponsored ties to support forum breach
Wed, 19th Dec 2018
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One of Twitter’s support forums was hit by a data breach that may have ties to a state-sponsored attack, however users' personal data was exposed.

Marriott sets up call centres to answer questions on data breach
Mon, 17th Dec 2018
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Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.

The Implications of a data disaster and why effective DR is critical
Thu, 13th Dec 2018
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93 percent of companies without disaster recovery who suffer a major data disaster are out of business within one year.

52mil users affected by Google+’s second data breach
Tue, 11th Dec 2018
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Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.