Data leak stories

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.>>

In this piece we look at four key approaches that will plug any gaping holes in your defences.>>