Security News

Misconfiguration Leads to Major Health Data Breach
2019-02-21 20:48

UW Medicine Notifying Nearly 1 Million Patients of Data ExposureA misconfigured database at UW Medicine in Washington state that left patient data exposed on the internet for several weeks...

Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases
2019-02-21 12:29

Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info The UK's Labour Party has been forced to lock down access to membership databases and campaign tools over concerns the info was being sucked up by...

Wendy's Reaches $50 Million Settlement With Banks Over Data Breach
2019-02-18 13:28

US fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s announced recently that it has reached a settlement with the thousands of financial institutions impacted by the data breach suffered by the company in 2015...

Data Breach Bonanza: Dating Apps, Equifax, Mass Credential Dumps
2019-02-15 22:30

Data-exposure "lowlights" for the week ending Feb. 15, 2019.

Photography site 500px resets 14.8 million passwords after data breach
2019-02-15 10:24

Photography website 500px has become the latest site to admit suffering a serious data breach.

4 ways your company can avoid a data breach
2019-02-13 13:32

Only one in three organizations say they are confident they can prevent data breaches, according to Balbix.

Data Breach Reports in Europe Under GDPR Exceed 59,000
2019-02-06 14:18

Netherlands, Germany and UK Have Logged the Most Data Breach ReportsSince the EU's GDPR went into full effect, European data protection authorities have received over 59,000 data breach reports,...

Health Data Breach Tally: What's New?
2019-02-04 22:03

Hacks, Thefts and Business Associate Breaches Among the Incidents AddedSome 22 health data breaches reported to regulators in 2019 - including hacking incidents and thefts of unencrypted devices -...

Researchers Identify Hacker Behind Massive Data Breach Collection
2019-02-04 18:08

Recorded Future says that its security researchers were able to identify the hacker who first distributed the recently surfaced database of 773 million email addresses.  read more

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach
2019-02-01 21:35

The decorating website said that account usernames, passwords and more have been compromised as part of a breach.