Security News

Yahoo Takes Second Swing at Data Breach Settlement
2019-04-10 12:33

$117.5 Million Settlement Would Be Largest Ever for a Data Breach, Plaintiffs SayYahoo is hoping a revamped proposed breach-related settlement will pass muster with a federal judge who rejected...

Cost of Data Breach in UK Increases More Than 41% in Two Years
2019-04-08 14:25

The UK government, in the form of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its fourth annual breaches survey: the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019. It was...

Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Users' Personal Data
2019-04-03 12:33

The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students,...

Georgia Tech data breach: 1.3M students and staff potentially affected
2019-04-03 09:00

The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, has suffered yet another data breach. This time, the number of affected individuals may have reached 1.3 million. What is...

Possible Toyota data breach affecting 3.1 million customers
2019-04-02 10:50

Several Toyota companies have announced that they might have suffered data breach attempts, with one affecting 3.1 million customers.

Toyota Reveals a Second Data Breach
2019-04-01 17:03

Hackers Targeted Servers Storing Data on 3.1 Million CustomersToyota Motor Corp. has reported its second data breach in the past five weeks. The latest incident, revealed Friday, may have exposed...

Analyzing the $7.5 Million UCLA Health Data Breach Settlement
2019-03-29 17:48

A proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit filed against ULCA Health in the wake of a 2015 cyberattack affecting 4.5 million individuals stands apart from other settlements because it...

Millions of Toyota Customers in Japan Hit by Data Breach
2019-03-29 14:38

Personal information belonging to millions of Toyota customers in Japan may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by a Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its...

Washington, D.C. AG Wants Better Data Breach Protection
2019-03-22 21:03

Top District Prosecutor Aims to Improve Consumer Breach ProtectionKarl Racine, the attorney general for Washington, D.C., is looking to strengthen the District's data breach laws, specifically by...

GDPR: Data Breach Notification 101
2019-03-22 20:03

Brian Honan of BH Consulting on When to Notify - or NotSince the EU's new GDPR privacy law came into effect in May 2018, one challenge for organizations that suffer a breach is knowing whether or...