Security News

San Diego School District Data Breach Hits 500k Students
2018-12-24 14:38

A phishing attack led to the data breach of students' social security numbers, addresses, and more.

France Fines Uber 400,000 Euros Over Huge Data Breach
2018-12-21 14:51

France's data protection agency said Thursday that it had fined the US ride-hailing group Uber 400,000 euros ($460,000) over a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of some 57 million...

GDPR: EU Sees More Data Breach Reports, Privacy Complaints
2018-12-19 16:18

Ireland, France, Germany and UK Report Increases Since Privacy Law Took EffectThe number of data breach reports filed since the EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect has hit...

Congressional Report on the 2017 Equifax Data Breach
2018-12-19 12:00

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released a comprehensive report on the 2017 Equifax hack. It's a great piece of writing, with a detailed...

NASA Notifies Employees of Data Breach
2018-12-19 07:03

Social security numbers and other personal information belonging to employees of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may have been stolen after at least one of the...

Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach
2018-12-18 11:48

Twitter has been hit with a minor data breach incident that the social networking site believes linked to a suspected state-sponsored attack. In a blog post published on Monday, Twitter revealed...

Conflicted External Auditors at Heart of Equifax Data Breach
2018-12-13 17:49

Equifax hired financial auditors and IT security auditors from different divisions of Ernst & Young, creating conflicts of interest that may have disincentivized both auditing teams from reporting...

GDPR: 8,000 Data Breach Reports Filed So Far in UK
2018-12-10 16:18

Privacy Watchdog Counts 41 Daily Breach Reports Since GDPR Enforcement BeganThe U.K.'s privacy watchdog says that six months after enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation began,...

Zuckerberg Defends Facebook in New Data Breach Controversy
2018-12-06 08:32

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday against emails showing the social media giant offering Netflix and other popular apps preferential access to people's data even after it had...

Attorneys General File First Multistate HIPAA-Related Data Breach Lawsuit
2018-12-06 08:24

Attorneys General from 12 U.S. states this week filed a lawsuit against a healthcare tech solutions provider over a data breach suffered by the company in 2015. read more