Data Breach

Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers

Cyber-crime15 Aug 2023 | 306

Cumbrian Police accidentally publish all officers' details online

Names, job titles and salaries included in unwitting leak

Security14 Aug 2023 | 87

Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error

At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week

Security09 Aug 2023 | 33

UK voter data within reach of miscreants who hacked Electoral Commission

'It doesn't help if the organization responsible for the integrity of elections' gets pwned

Cyber-crime08 Aug 2023 | 116

Big Tech's going to love India's new personal data protection bill

Big fines for breaches. Also big powers – including takedowns – for planned Data Protection Board

Legal04 Aug 2023 | 6

What would sustainable security even look like?

Opinion Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today

CSO31 Jul 2023 | 40

US senator victim-blames Microsoft for Chinese hack

Infosec in brief ALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns

Security31 Jul 2023 | 10

Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action

95% pertain to pension schemes administered by outsourcing giant, says Barings Law

Cyber-crime21 Jul 2023 | 12

Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones

Infosec in brief ALSO: Shell fails to learn from past leaks; hundreds of solar plants found open to Mirai; and this week's crit vulns

Security10 Jul 2023 | 45

Russian military satellite comms provider offline after hack

Infosec in brief ALSO: Ransomware hit on Mancunian Uni spills NHS patient deets, USPTO leaks inventor info, and this week's crit vulns

Systems03 Jul 2023 | 6

Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy

Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking

Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 10

American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed

Time to start practising identity protection

Cyber-crime26 Jun 2023 | 2

Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info

50K-plus employees' personal info swiped after law firm rolled

Cyber-crime20 Jun 2023 | 6

Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach

Barings Law claims 250 people that 'suspect' data theft signed up to class action

Cyber-crime16 Jun 2023 | 15

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

Microsoft blames Russian Clop ransomware crew for theft of staff info

Cyber-crime05 Jun 2023 | 27

Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak

Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison

Offbeat25 May 2023 | 2

Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach

Took two years to tell us 'small number of emails' accessed

Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 5

Dish confirms 300,000 people's data was exposed in February's attack

But don't worry – we know it was deleted. Hmm. How would you know that?

Cyber-crime23 May 2023 | 4

More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder

As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks

Cyber-crime22 May 2023 | 35

Six million patients' data feared stolen from PharMerica

Cue the inevitable class action lawsuit

Cyber-crime18 May 2023 | 5

US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people

Not the first time Uncle Sam has had the wheels come off its IT systems

Security16 May 2023 | 4

Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs

Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater'

Cyber-crime10 May 2023 | 9

Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches

Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app

Security10 May 2023 | 10

Western Digital: Customer info stolen in that IT attack

Hard times for buyers of these hard drives

Cyber-crime08 May 2023 | 8

T-Mobile US suffers second data theft within months

in brief Also, Capita's buckets are leaking, ransomware attackers deliver demands via emergency alert, and this week's critical vulns

Security08 May 2023 | 6

Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves

Ransoms, investigations, and breach-related lawsuits are hitting companies in the wallet, law firm says

Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 6

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

Patient data 'was and is never endangered', says medical tech slinger

Cyber-crime01 May 2023 | 6

That 3CX supply chain attack keeps getting worse: Other vendors hit

In Brief Also, Finland sentences CEO of breach company to prison (kind of), and this week's laundry list of critical vulns

CSO24 Apr 2023 | 9

Chinese scientists calculate the Milky Way's mass as 805 billion times that of our Sun

Asia In Brief ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more

Security24 Apr 2023 | 12

Capita has 'evidence' customer data was stolen in digital burglary

Admits criminals accessed 4% of servers from March 22 until it spotted them at month-end

Cyber-crime20 Apr 2023 | 14

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

No worries, outsourcer only handles government tech contracts worth billions

Cyber-crime18 Apr 2023 | 40

Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman

When bragging about your job on Discord gets just a little out of hand?

Cyber-crime13 Apr 2023 | 96

Criminal records office yanks web portal offline amid 'cyber security incident'

ACRO says payment data safe, other info may have been snaffled

Cyber-crime06 Apr 2023 | 20

Uber driver info stolen yet again: This time from law firm

Never mind software supply chain attacks, lawyers are the new soft target?

Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 14

Western Digital confirms digital burglary, calls the cops

Thinks info from internal systems 'obtained' by miscreant, unsure of nature or scope data

Cyber-crime03 Apr 2023 | 10

Lawyers cough up $200k after health data stolen in Microsoft Exchange pillaging

In addition to $100k given to LockBit

Security27 Mar 2023 | 8

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 4

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 8

You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k?

At the very least, with other costs on top

Cyber-crime18 Mar 2023 | 16

T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B

Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere

Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9

Zoll Medical says intruders had 1M+ patient, staff records at their fingertips

Names, addresses, SSNs all up for grabs

Security13 Mar 2023 | 2

What happens if you 'cover up' a ransomware infection? For Blackbaud, a $3m charge

File under cost of doing business

CSO10 Mar 2023 | 9

US House reps, staff health data swiped in cyber-heist

Data for sale via dark web, Senate in line of fire, too

Cyber-crime09 Mar 2023 | 8

Acer confirms server intrusion after miscreant offers 160GB cache of stolen files

Customer info safe, or so we're told

Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 4

Dish: Someone snatched our data, if you're wondering why our IT systems went down

Outage-hit telco still won't confirm ransomware infection, or if it's paying up

Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 4

Telus source code, staff info for sale on dark web forum

$50k buys you '1,000 unique repositories' that may or may not be legit

Security25 Feb 2023 | 8

Sensitive DoD emails exposed by unsecured Azure server

AWS, Google and Oracle may benefit as Microsoft blames the Pentagon and the Pentagon blames Microsoft

Security23 Feb 2023 | 19

Lawyers join forces to fight common enemy: The SEC and its probes into cyber-victims

Did the financial watchdog just do the impossible and herd cats?

Cyber-crime23 Feb 2023 | 10

LockBit's Royal Mail ransom deadline flies by. No data released

in brief Also: Russian wiper malware authors turn to data theft, plus this week's critical vulns

Cyber-crime13 Feb 2023 | 9

Suspect in Finnish psychotherapy center blackmail hack arrested

Suomi sentence expected for shrink records theft

Security08 Feb 2023 | 7

Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty in data theft and extortion case

Nickolas Sharp now faces up to 35 years in prison

Cyber-crime03 Feb 2023 | 4

FTC prescribes GoodRx a $1.5m pill after 'sharing health info' with web giants

Facebook, Google, Twilio had a look-see of that data, we're told

Personal Tech02 Feb 2023 | 8

JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

No payment details exposed in breach, says retailer, but shoppers told to be 'vigilant about potential scams'

Cyber-crime30 Jan 2023 | 25

Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine

in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online

Security30 Jan 2023 | 12

US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online

In brief Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war

Security23 Jan 2023 | 4

Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers

Sixth snafu in five years? Crooks have this useless carrier on speed dial

Cyber-crime20 Jan 2023 | 11