Security News

French company fined 250,000 euros for a data leak
2018-06-12 14:59

CNIL, the French data protection authority, has decided to impose a 250,000 euro fine on Optical Center, a French company selling eye and hearing aids, because it failed to secure the data of...

Chris Vickery Discusses Data Leak of 48 Million Users by Private Intelligence Firm
2018-04-19 13:44

Private intelligence gathering firm LocalBlox leaked data on 48 million users that was scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and other sites.

Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks
2018-04-10 20:26

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company...

Panera Bread Slammed After Keeping Massive Data Leak Quiet For Eight Months
2018-04-03 15:21

Panera is in hot water after sitting on a massive data leak for eight months on its website - and then trying to downplay the amount of customers impacted by the leak.

Panera Bread Data Leak Persisted For Eight Months
2018-04-03 10:13

Database of Customer Information Left Exposed via Unauthenticated API EndpointPanera Bread is warning that information on 10,000 customers has been inadvertently exposed. The data leak, however,...

Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback
2018-03-20 10:18

CSO Leaves Early, Stock Dives, Outrage AboundsFacebook may be facing the fight of its life. The social media company is seeing mounting pressure and a collective outcry over personal data for...

Facebook Attempts to Explain Data Leak, Denies 'Breach'
2018-03-19 10:33

Political Data-Mining Firm Reportedly Obtained 50 Million Users' Private DetailsFacebook is under fire after reports suggested data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica obtained private information for...

NSA "Red Disk" Data Leak
2017-11-30 12:44

ZDNet is reporting about another data leak, this one from US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is also within to the NSA. The disk image, when unpacked and loaded, is a...

Chris Vickery on Amazon S3 Data Leaks
2017-09-25 15:15

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.

Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-24 11:30

Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud....