Security News

Nissan Canada Informs 1.1 Million Customers of Data Breach
2017-12-22 06:07

Nissan Canada revealed on Thursday that the personal information of some customers may have been compromised as a result of a data breach discovered by the company on December 11. read more

2017 Health Data Breach Tally: An Analysis
2017-12-21 19:33

Experts Analyze Whether the Stats Signify Real ProgressCompared to the mega-breaches that hit the healthcare sector in 2015 and 2016, the top 10 breaches reported for 2017 were far smaller....

Uber Paid 20-Year-Old Florida Hacker $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret
2017-12-07 08:03

Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database. It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached...

PayPal Subsidiary Data Breach Hits Up to 1.6 Million Customers
2017-12-04 08:33

Global e-commerce business PayPal has disclosed a data breach that may have compromised personally identifiable information for roughly 1.6 million customers at a payment processing company PayPal...

Fast and Furious Data Breach Scandal Overtakes Uber
2017-11-22 18:03

Ride-Sharing Firm Reportedly Fired CSO for Concealing 2016 BreachMove over Equifax. There's a massive new data breach notification in town. And Uber is still struggling to come clean about why it...

Uber suffered massive data breach, paid hackers to keep quiet about it
2017-11-22 15:58

Uber suffered a breach in October 2016, which resulted in the compromise of sensitive information of some 57 million users and drivers, and paid off the hackers to keep mum about it. Compromised...

After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret
2017-11-22 01:38

Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company...

CareFirst Asks Supreme Court to Review Data Breach Case
2017-11-02 19:33

Health Insurer Claims Case Lacks Evidence of HarmCareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a case filed against the health insurer in the wake of a...

Hacking Incidents Dominate 2017 Health Data Breach Tally
2017-11-02 15:03

Vast Majority of Recent Breach Victims Affected by a Hacker AttackWith less than two months left in the year, incidents involving hackers are dominating the federal tally of health data breaches...

Malaysia Stung by Massive Data Breach Affecting Millions
2017-11-02 11:03

Mobile Phone Records Appear on Dark Web, Both for Sale and for FreeMalaysia is grappling with a sweeping data breach that exposed 46 million mobile phone records, jobseeker profiles and data from...