Security News

Massive Data Breach at Canada Credit Union Giant Desjardins
2019-06-21 11:54

Canada's Desjardins credit union announced Thursday that the personal banking information of 2.9 million customers had been stolen by an employee and distributed to outside parties. read more

645,000 Clients Affected in Oregon Department of Human Services Data Breach
2019-06-19 12:55

Oregon Department of Human Services officials say they are notifying about 645,000 clients whose personal information is at risk from a January data breach. read more

AMCA Files for Bankruptcy Following Data Breach
2019-06-19 11:33

Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, the company that operates healthcare billing services provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a recent...

Data Breach Disclosed by Online Invitation Firm Evite
2019-06-12 19:51

Evite's data breach, stemming from an “inactive data storage file," is only one of many breaches to be disclosed this week.

Data Breach Exposes 100K U.S. Traveler Photos, License Plates
2019-06-11 13:40

A recent breach of U.S. Customs and Border Protection traveler photo and license plate data has led experts to condemn the collection and storage of facial recognition data.

LabCorp Says 7.7 Million Patients Caught in AMCA Data Breach
2019-06-05 06:19

One day after medical testing firm Quest Diagnostics revealed that nearly 12 million of its patients had their personal and financial information exposed as a result of a breach at the American...

Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
2019-06-04 08:29

Quest Diagnostics, a US-based company that offers medical testing services, has announced that a third-party billing collections company they use has been hit by a data breach, affecting 11.9...

Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
2019-05-31 11:52

Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard - one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting - has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.

Under GDPR, UK Data Breach Reports Quadruple
2019-05-29 11:48

After Privacy Law Went Into Full Effect, Data Security Complaints DoubledOne year after Europe's tough new GDPR privacy law went into full effect last May, authorities in Britain have seen the...

Flipboard Resets User Passwords in Response to Data Breach
2019-05-29 05:42

News and social media aggregator Flipboard revealed on Tuesday that it suffered a serious breach involving unauthorized access to some databases storing user account information. read more