Data leak news stories

Ransomware had a monumental impact on organisations in 2021, responsible for approximately 38% of all breaches, and 31% of breaches in APAC.

The recent GoDaddy data breach saw the potential exposure of 1.2 million customers' data.

"Personal data is a huge business that hackers try to make use of."

Vanta has announced the public availability of two new certification standards designed to help secure the internet and protect consumer data. 

LinkedIn has experienced another huge data scape, the third in four months, with 600 million profiles for sale online.

"If confidential information falls into the wrong hands, it could harm the company in a variety of ways."

Oversharing increases the risk an organisation will lose data, violate compliance or privacy mandates, or experience cybercrime.

Australians want to see greater transparency about the extent of the problem, new polling has found.

A white hat hacker hacker uncovered a total of 9517 unsecured databases worldwide, collectively containing more than 10 billion entries.

Research has identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing 10,463,315,645 entries with such data as emails, passwords, and phone numbers.

"The report calls into question the providers’ security practices and dismisses their claims of being no-log VPN services."

UpGuard reported that each of the data sets was stored in its own Amazon S3 bucket configured to allow public download of files.

Techday spoke to experts and executives in the security industry about the data leak and the implications on phishing and credential stuffing.

This makes the second leak three times bigger than the Collection #1 dump leaked last month.

Objections to data sharing recorded in GP practices running clinical software TPP’s system between March 2015 and June 2018 were not sent to NHS.

How ironic! Tens of thousands of user accounts of an app used by parents to monitor their children’s phone activity has been leaked.

After a critical source code for the iPhone was leaked online recently, Apple reassured there was nothing to fear but experts think otherwise.

A cybersecurity expert has said it is a ‘stunning admission’ by the former CIA director about the NSA breach that is being touted as catastrophic.

​The recent news about the huge leak of financial documents has caused waves around the world.

JobStreet is informing clients by email whether they were caught up in a Malaysia-based data breach that affected 19 different companies.

A data breach has put more than 46 million Malaysian mobile phone users at risk and has affected many of the country’s major telecommunicatio

It is a disturbing sign to see that a relatively high percentage of leaks stem from top managers and system administrators."

BlackBerry has expanded its Indian channel, appointing six new partners as the Canadian vendor looks to increase its enterprise business.

Data leaks and breaches are alarmingly common, but there are still many misconceptions as to how and why they happen.