data breach

Personal and financial data of some 270,000 customers of UK payday loan firm Wonga have likely been pilfered in a data breach. The data that was accessed by the attackers …

About the author Kevvie Fowler is a Partner and National Cyber Response Leader for KPMG Canada and has over 19 years of IT security and forensics experience. He is a SANS …

The number of records compromised grew a historic 566 percent in 2016 from 600 million to more than 4 billion. These leaked records include data cybercriminals have …

Gemalto’s Breach Level Index revealed that 1,792 data breaches led to 1.37 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase of 86% compared to …

Science Inc., the company behind the popular online poll creation app Wishbone, has suffered a data breach. As a consequence, personal and account information of over 2.2 …

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist at Ntrepid, talks about the growing trend of targeted attacks, as well as strategies …

We finally know how many user accounts were affected by last year’s Yahoo cookie-forging incident: 32 million. What happened? “In November and December 2016, we …

The CloudPets data breach saga continues, as Spiral Toys finally reported the breach to the California Attorney General’s Office. As a reminder: Leaked data provided to …

One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen from technology systems, according to Accenture. The findings show that half of those who …

Data breaches are becoming more complex and are no longer confined to just the IT department, but are now affecting every department within an organization. Each breach leaves …

A hacker tied to the November 2016 penetration of the US Election Assistance Commission and subsequent database sale has successfully targeted 60+ government agencies and …

UK’s largest sports retail outlet Sports Direct has suffered a data breach in September 2016, when an attacker gained access to its staff portal, and through it to …