Security News

Hi-de-Hack! Redcoats red-faced as Butlin's holiday camp admits data breach hit 34,000
2018-08-10 14:22

Staff opened phishing email Holiday camp and British institution Butlin's has admitted 34,000 visitor records have been compromised.…

Spirent extends CyberFlood with Data Breach Assessment for testing of networks and devices
2018-08-08 06:54

Spirent Communications announced the availability of the solution using data breach emulation technology to provide holistic and hyper-realistic security testing of networks and devices for...

Reddit suffers data breach due to SMS-based 2FA
2018-08-02 14:20

Popular social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit has suffered a breach. The attacker broke into some of its systems and got access to some user data, but did not manage to modify any...

Yale University Discloses Decade-Old Data Breach
2018-08-01 10:43

"Because the intrusion happened nearly ten years ago, we do not have much more information about how it occurred." read more

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers
2018-07-31 11:18

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in...

Iowa Health Group Data Breach Hits 1.4 Million Patients
2018-07-31 11:02

UnityPoint Health Says Hackers' Likely Goal Was Business Email Compromise FraudA large Midwestern health network says a successful phishing campaign exposed a raft of personal and medical data...

Boys Town Healthcare Data Breach Exposed Personal Details of Patients
2018-07-30 17:03

Another day, Another data breach! This time-sensitive and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people at Boys Town National Research Hospital have been exposed in what appears to be the...

Under GDPR, Data Breach Reports in UK Have Quadrupled
2018-07-25 12:03

Privacy Regulator Sees 1,750 Breach Reports in June, Up From 700 in MayUnder the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, within 72 hours of an organization learning about the data breach, it must...

Health Data Breach Tally: Lots of Hacks, Fewer Victims
2018-07-23 20:48

Bigger Organizations 'Have Invested Wisely' in Breach Prevention. What About Smaller Ones?Hacker attacks are still dominating the data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this...

HR Services Firm ComplyRight Suffers Data Breach
2018-07-20 05:06

Florida-based HR services provider ComplyRight revealed recently that its tax reporting platform was involved in a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the exposure of personal information. read more