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Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field

Hundreds of email addresses exposed, customers predictably less-than-thrilled

17 Nov 2020

Kids' gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel

UpdatedTens of millions of usernames and passwords go walkies amid claims of decryption

12 Nov 2020

Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats

Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website

26 Oct 2020

Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses

And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance

01 Oct 2020

Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics

Pair of England's unis figure out better way of admitting terrible thing

24 Sep 2020

UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court

Tawdry political scuffle over database access binned for lack of evidence

27 Jul 2020

Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet

Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!'

17 Jul 2020

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked

No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee

26 May 2020

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too

19 May 2020

At the Supreme Court, Morrisons pops data breach liability win into its trolley – but it's not a get-out-of-compo free card for businesses

Vicarious liability now applies to intentional leaks, top court says

01 Apr 2020

Brit housing association blabs 3,500 folks' sexual orientation, ethnicity in email blunder

UpdatedPlease update your contact details in this handy spreadsheet ... oh

25 Mar 2020

Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US's third security whoopsie in as many years

And there it is – exactly what telco was fretting over in FY'19 results

05 Mar 2020

Delicious irony: Credit rating builder Loqbox lets customer details and card numbers slip after 'sophisticated attack'

'We are truly sorry'

02 Mar 2020

Hacker swipes customer list from controversial face-recog-for-Feds Clearview. Its reaction? 'A part of life'

AI biz tells clients miscreant 'gained unauthorized access', tells us 'servers were never accessed, flaw patched'

26 Feb 2020

Rotherwood Healthcare AWS bucket security fail left elderly patients' DNR choices freely readable online

Plus birth certificates, job interview data and more

26 Feb 2020

Oh buoy. Rich yacht bods' job agency leaves 17,000 sailors' details exposed in AWS bucket

It's 2020 and people are still letting S3 storage leak

04 Feb 2020

2015-member database floats off through breach in Royal Yachting Association's hull

Change your passwords, ye scurvy-free non-landlubbers

24 Jan 2020

WindiLeaks: 250 million Microsoft customer support records dating back to 2005 exposed to open internet

Quickly shuttered partially redacted leaky DB included 'internal notes marked as confidential'

22 Jan 2020

Articles about Data Breach

Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field

Kids' gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel

Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats

Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses

Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics

UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court

Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet

Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked

Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon

At the Supreme Court, Morrisons pops data breach liability win into its trolley – but it's not a get-out-of-compo free card for businesses

Brit housing association blabs 3,500 folks' sexual orientation, ethnicity in email blunder

Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US's third security whoopsie in as many years

Delicious irony: Credit rating builder Loqbox lets customer details and card numbers slip after 'sophisticated attack'

Hacker swipes customer list from controversial face-recog-for-Feds Clearview. Its reaction? 'A part of life'

Rotherwood Healthcare AWS bucket security fail left elderly patients' DNR choices freely readable online

Oh buoy. Rich yacht bods' job agency leaves 17,000 sailors' details exposed in AWS bucket

2015-member database floats off through breach in Royal Yachting Association's hull

WindiLeaks: 250 million Microsoft customer support records dating back to 2005 exposed to open internet

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