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Figures released under a Freedom of Information request have shown the PSNI had 260 data breaches over two years — but only a fraction of them were reported to external authorities, and even fewer were publicly disclosed. In one case, Read More …
It remains unclear whether the perpetrator behind a massive data breach of the City of Helsinki has tried to benefit from the crime, according to the City. Detected in April, the hack resulted in the leak of tens of millions Read More …
Data watchdogs in the UK and Canada are now jointly investigating the data breach that hit 23andMe in October 2023. The incident saw a threat actor post 13 million pieces of 23andMe data for sale on the dark web, including Read More …
U.S. law firm Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s largest law firm by revenue, has been pulled into U.S. litigation over a wide-ranging data breach linked to a file transfer tool that compromised data at hundreds of organizations. A proposed class Read More …
Frontier Communications has confirmed more than 750,000 individuals were affected in an April cyberattack on its systems, according to a regulatory filing. Lawyers representing the major US telco told the Office of the Maine Attorney General that data belonging to Read More …
Just a week after the hacking incident involving Telangana police’s HawkEye app, another app, TSCOP, has been compromised as well. As a result, policerelated data is currently available for sale on online forums. The same hacker responsible for the breach Read More …
Microsoft’s Recall feature has been criticized heavily by pretty much everyone since it was announced last month. Now, researchers have demonstrated the risks by creating a tool that can find, extract, and display everything Recall has stored on a device. Read More …
Carmaker Toyota and real estate firm Robinsons Land have confirmed reports of data breaches in their company and are now under evaluation by the National Privacy Commission (NPC). In a statement Thursday, NPC Compliance and Monitoring Division chief Rainier Milanes Read More …
Online prescription provider MediSecure has collapsed into administration and liquidation just weeks after a large-scale ransomware attack resulted in customer details being leaked on the dark web. The Melbourne-based health provider last month confirmed the massive data breach had taken Read More …
At least seven critics of the Kremlin, including journalists were targeted inside the European Union (EU) by a state using Pegasus, a report by digital civil rights NGO Access Now said on Thursday (May 30). In its report, Access Now Read More …