Security News

Uber Agrees to $148M Settlement With States Over Data Breach
2018-09-26 20:01

CHICAGO (AP) — Uber will pay $148 million and tighten data security after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information, according...

GDPR: Data Breach Class Action Lawsuits Come to Europe
2018-09-26 15:18

Breached businesses in Europe: Brace for more class action lawsuits seeking material and non-material damages filed by victims following mandatory data breach notifications under GDPR, says...

Firefox Monitor tells you whether your email was compromised in a data breach
2018-09-26 09:50

After a few months of user testing, Mozilla has launched Firefox Monitor, a free online service that allows users to check whether their email address was involved in a publicly known data breach...

Variations in State Data Breach Disclosure Laws Complicate Compliance
2018-09-26 07:11

New data breach notification laws are good news for consumers, better news for attorneys, but not very good news for businesses already struggling to stay on top of a constantly evolving...

Health Data Breach Tally Shows Mistakes That Lead to Trouble
2018-09-25 21:18

Organizations Need to Avoid Mishaps That Can Make Matters WorseRecent additions to the federal health data breach tally shine a light on the mistakes that contribute to breaches - and in some...

SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users
2018-09-25 15:18

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) of almost 6.5 million...

UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach
2018-09-20 14:03

Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been issued a £500,000 fine by the UK's privacy watchdog for its last year's massive data breach that exposed personal and financial data...

Perth Mint Says 3,200 Customers Affected By Data Breach
2018-09-19 09:18

Leaked Data Includes Passport Numbers, Addresses, Bank Account DetailsIf you're going to hack, why not go for the gold? That appears to have been the impetus behind an unusual data breach at the...

Perth Mint leaks 13 accounts in data breach. No, make that 3,200
2018-09-18 00:37

Unnamed third-party provider spaffed customer data A data breach at Perth Mint first thought to have affected 13 customers turned out to be more widespread, with more than 3,000 customers breached.…

FreshMenu Hid Data Breach Affecting 110,000 Users
2018-09-14 16:03

CEO Took Two Years to Acknowledge IncidentFreshMenu, a food delivery provider based in India, has come under social media attack for keeping under wraps a data breach two years ago that exposed...