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Currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has started informing customers that their information was likely stolen by hackers. Open Exchange Rates provides a currency data API that is used by over 80,000 web developers.
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity revealed this week that malicious actors breached its corporate network. TSOs are responsible for the transmission of electric power across the main high-voltage networks, and ENTSO-E works with them on the implementation of energy policies and achieving Europe's energy and climate policy objectives.
UK telephone, TV and internet provider Virgin Media has suffered a data breach. Data breaches from partner companies could happen for exactly the reason given above - poor cloud management practices - or for a variety of other reasons that the company responsible for the data can't control directly.
Australia's privacy watchdog announced legal action against Facebook Monday for alleged "Systematic failures" exposing more than 300,000 Australians to a data breach by Cambridge Analytica. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said it had initiated proceedings against the tech giant and that Facebook committed "Serious and/or repeated interferences with privacy".
More than half of all healthcare vendors have experienced a data breach that exposed protected health information, and it's a costly problem that points to broken third-party risk assessment processes, according to data released by the Ponemon Institute and Censinet. The report shows that 54 percent of healthcare vendors have experienced at least one data breach of protected health information belonging to patients of the healthcare providers they serve.
Mobile game developer Zynga could face a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive data breach last September, which impacted 218 million users of the Words with Friends mobile app. According to a third-party analysis, that data included names, emails, user IDs, salted passwords, password reset tokens, Zynga account IDs, and connections to Facebook and other social media services.
Mobile game developer Zynga could face a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive data breach last September, which impacted 218 million users of the Words with Friends mobile app. According to a third-party analysis, that data included names, emails, user IDs, salted passwords, password reset tokens, Zynga account IDs, and connections to Facebook and other social media services.
Even the most forward-looking organizations with the top security experts face risk when transitioning to the cloud. The case study will also explain how a Network Detection and Response Layer could have provided the missing visibility and detection needed to respond to such an incident.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has fined Cathay Pacific Airways £500,000 over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.4 million customers, including 111,000 British citizens, during a four-year period. A Cathay Pacific spokesman tells Information Security Media Group that the airlines cooperated with the ICO during the investigation and that it has taken steps over the last two years to improve its corporate security.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office announced Wednesday that it has fined Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd the maximum possible £500,000 following a long-running breach that occurred between October 2014 and May 2018. The current UK Data Protection Act 2018 came into force 12 days after the breach was remedied on May 23, 2018.