Security News

Canadian Class Action Suit Launched Against Equifax Over Data Breach
2017-09-13 02:03

A class action lawsuit by Canadian consumers whose data was stolen in a massive hack of US credit bureau Equifax was launched Tuesday, seeking damages of Can $550 billion ($450 billion US). read more

How Equifax failed miserably at handling its data breach
2017-09-11 17:15

A data breach, as conventional wisdom goes, can happen to anyone, but how an organization handles the fallout is what shows us if they care about users at all – and Equifax is failing...

Could CareFirst Data Breach Case Be Headed to Supreme Court?
2017-09-08 20:18

Federal Court Grants Health Plan's Petition to Appeal to High CourtCould the class action lawsuit filed against CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield be the first data breach case headed to the Supreme...

Equifax Data Breach: Steps You should Take to Protect Yourself
2017-09-08 13:15

Equifax has suffered one of the largest data breaches in history that has left highly sensitive data of as many as 143 million people—that's nearly half of the US population—in the hands of...

Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach (The Hackers News)
2017-09-04 06:48

Exclusive — If you have an account on Taringa, also known as "The Latin American Reddit," your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all...

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 01:18

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong,...

Delaware Toughens Data Breach Notification Law (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-23 20:33

Will Other States Follow and Adopt Similar Measures?Delaware has become the second state - the first was Connecticut - to require organizations to provide residents one year of free credit...

Nuance: NotPetya Attack Was Not a Reportable Health Data Breach (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-31 20:18

Medical Transcription Services Vendor Explains Decision to CustomersNuance has issued an unusual public letter to customers explaining why the medical transcription services vendor has decided not...

A UK business will spend more than £1m recovering from a data breach (Help Net Security)
2017-07-17 15:04

A UK business would have to spend £1.1m on average to recover from a breach – more than the global average of £1m. An NTT Security study of 1,350 non-IT business decision makers across 11...

Ashley Madison Offers $11 Million in Data Breach Settlement (Security Week)
2017-07-17 11:39

Ruby Life Inc., the owner and operator of the online adultery service Ashley Madison, has offered to pay $11.2 million to individuals affected by the 2015 data breach. read more