Security News

IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador’s History
2019-09-18 14:18

Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in...

Security Firm: Data Breach Exposes Millions of Ecuadorians
2019-09-17 01:02

Millions of Ecuadorians are at risk of identity theft because a security breach exposed a trove of data including names, phone numbers and birth dates, a cyber security firm said Monday. read more

Brokerage Firm Hit With $500,000 Data Breach Penalty
2019-09-16 20:18

Commission Finds That Phillip Capital Made Series of MisstepsThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has hit Philips Capital Inc., a Chicago-based brokerage firm, with a $500,000 penalty for...

Health Data Breach Tally Spikes; AMCA Breach Reports Added
2019-09-05 19:48

Total Number of Individuals Affected by Breaches Reported in 2019 TriplesThe federal tally of major health data breaches has spiked over the last month, mostly because of the American Medical...

Over 328,000 Users Hit by Foxit Data Breach
2019-09-04 04:50

PDF solutions provider Foxit last week informed customers that it had recently detected unauthorized access to data associated with its “My Account” service. read more

562,000 Impacted in XKCD Forum Data Breach
2019-09-03 14:24

The XKCD forum has been taken offline after suffering a data breach that impacted 562,000 subscribers. The forum is associated with XKCD, a webcomic that American author Randall Munroe created in...

Foxit PDF Software Company Suffers Data Breach—Asks Users to Reset Password
2019-08-30 18:18

If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately—as an unknown attacker has compromised your personal data and log-in credentials. Foxit...

Hostinger Data Breach: 14M Customer Passwords, Personal Data at Risk
2019-08-26 15:43

Hostinger said that unauthorized access to an internal API server exposed hashed passwords of 14 million customers.

Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users
2019-08-26 11:48

Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post...

A Summer of Data Breach Discontent
2019-08-16 18:48

Ransomware Attacks, Vendors Mishaps Are Top Culprits in Healthcare Data Breach DramaWhen we look at many of the biggest healthcare data breaches reported so far this summer, two big culprits pop...