Over 172 Million Weibo Users’ Personal Data Is For Sale on Dark Web
Personal data of over 172 million users of Chinese social media platform Weibo is for sale on dark web and […]
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Unidentified Database Exposes 200 Million Americans
The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information. […]
Half a million private, legal and financial documents leaked online
An unsecured database has leaked over 500,000 highly sensitive documents leaving many at risk of fraud and theft. The database […]
Five billion records exposed in open ‘data breach database’
More than five billion records were exposed after a Elasticsearch “data breach database” housing a trove of security incidents from […]
Cost of data loss per organization surpassed $1M in the past year
Businesses now manage an average of 13.53 petabytes of data, but struggle to keep it secure. Within the last 12 […]
Cathay Pacific fined £500,000 for failing to secure its customers’ personal data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific Airways Limited £500,000 for failing to protect the security of its […]
UK Home Office breached GDPR 100 times
The UK Home Office has breached European data protection regulations at least 100 times in its handling of the EU […]
Clearview AI: Entire Client List Was Stolen
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got […]
Over 15 billion records were exposed last year
The total number of records exposed in 2019 increased by 284 percent compared to 2018. In total, there were over […]
ICO issues maximum pre-GDPR fine on major UK retailer
Last month the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, imposed a monetary penalty notice of £500,000 on […]
Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26 million Danish citizens
Danish tax portal accidentally shares tax payer identification numbers with Google and Adobe analytics services. The error lasted for five […]
Human Error Not Cybersecurity is Leading GDPR Data Breach Trend
Human error is the main data breach trend under the new GDPR regime not cybersecurity incidents according the Irish Data […]