Data breach stories - Page 26

Optical Center has been fined EUR €250,000 by CNIL for a major data breach affecting 334,000 customers, the largest fine in French history for such an offence.

It's important for healthcare firms to maintain organisation-wide security that is both up-to-date and automated, says Wavelink.

Leaked personal information includes names, credentials, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and home addresses.

The power grid in modern countries may not be as secure as you think, as reports have emerged revealing hackers have breached Germany's supply.

Singapore organizations say they don't have the resources to keep up with the volume of patches required to remediate software flaws.

In 2017, 2.6 billion data records were exposed, mainly due to human error, marking a staggering 580% increase since 2016, Gemalto reports.

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.

A study has revealed the median time for an EMEA business to detect an intruder is more than double that in the US - and it's much worse in APAC.

Now in its tenth year, Trustwave has released its encyclopaedic report that details both current and future threats that are crucial to be aware of.

Most Facebook users could have had their data scraped by cyber attackers, says the social network's chief technology officer.

Credit card data, medical records, payroll data, intellectual property and tax information are all available publicly online with no data protection.

Barracuda SVP Chris Ross talks about the results of a recent survey they ran following the Facebook fallout to determine the true cost.

Asia Pacific organisations take over a year to detect cyber threats, the longest of any region, according to FireEye's M-Trends 2018 report.

A recent study from Gemalto proves it's not just data that is lost following a breach – you'll lose most of your customers too.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has released a statement following the revelation that data from 50 million people was misused.

A whistleblower has uncovered the practices of his illicit company, which include stealing the details of 50m Facebook users to help Trump's campaign.

After the allegations about Emirates' customer data policies emerged, High-Tech Bridge ran a test on the site's security - with interesting results.

Multiple US officials have announced the intelligence community had evidence that states had been compromised by Russia but didn't tell anyone.

Despite the low level of compliance, Forrester Research says these numbers are in fact 'encouraging' for a number of reasons.

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company's massive US data breach last year.