data theft
Reactions to the Paddy Power data breach
Paddy Power is contacting 649,055 customers in relation to a data breach from 2010. The historical dataset contained individual customer’s name, username, address, email …
375 million customer records compromised in 2014
Between April and June of this year, there were a total of 237 breaches that compromised more than 175 million customer records of personal and financial information …
European Central Bank blackmailed in wake of data breach
The European Central Bank (ECB) – the central bank for the euro – has suffered a data breach, and has only discovered it after receiving a blackmail letter from …
UK data watchdog suffered data security breach
A data breach can really happen to anyone – just ask the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Buried in the recently made public 2013-2014 Annual …
Breaches exposed 22.8 million personal records of New Yorkers
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a new report examining the growing number, complexity, and costs of data breaches in the New York State. The report reveals that …
CNET attacked by Russian hackers, user database stolen
Russian hacker group W0rm has apparently managed to breach servers belonging to media website CNET, and make off with databases containing usernames, emails, and encrypted …
64% of companies expect cyber attacks
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of UK IT decision-makers said they expect their organization to be the target of a cyber attack within the next 12 months. And nearly one in three …
Android HijackRAT poised to hit mobile banking users
A highly versatile piece of Android malware has been unearthed by FireEye researchers. Posing as “Google Service Framework”, the malicious app is capable of …
Geodo infostealer gets help from worm
The distribution potential of the infamous Cridex infostealer (also known as Feodo or Bugat) just went up a notch, as a new version of the malware works in conjunction with a …
Western energy companies hit by state-sponsored hackers
Symantec researchers have confirmed the findings of their colleagues at F-Secure, who have been monitoring the spreading of the Havex malware family, and have put them in a …
163k individuals affected in Butler Uni data breach
Personal and financial information of some 163,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and past applicants of Indianapolis-based Butler University have been stolen following a …
Banking malware sniffs out data sent over HTTPS
Careful online banking users can sometimes spot that something is amiss when malware installed on their computer pops up phishing pages or adds fields to legitimate banking …