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![Victim Total Soars in County Health Data Breach](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
Minnesota County Says Tally is 118,000, Not 600 as Originally ReportedA Minnesota county that originally reported last December that a hacking incident affected about 600 individuals now says...
![IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador’s History](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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](/static/build/img/news/alt/data-breach-stats-small.jpg)
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...