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 […]
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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 […]
Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought
Corporations love to pretend that ‘anonymization’ of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true. […]
52% of companies use cloud services that have experienced a breach
Use of personal devices when accessing cloud services and the sprawl of high-risk cloud services drive new areas of risk […]
€114 Million in Fines Imposed by EU Authorities Under GDPR
New findings from DLA Piper show that 160,000 data breach notifications reported across 28 European Union Member States and data […]