data breaches
Labour Party donors caught up in Blackbaud data breach
Labour Party donors caught up in Blackbaud data breach
List of compromised organisations continues to grow amid an ICO investigation
31 Jul 2020
IBM: Stolen employee credentials lead to most expensive data breaches
IBM: Stolen employee credentials lead to most expensive data breaches
Respondents to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report place blame with CISOs
29 Jul 2020
More than 1,000 Twitter employees had the security access needed to aid hackers
More than 1,000 Twitter employees had the security access needed to aid hackers
Former staff say many had the power to make changes to user account settings as well as hand over the controls to third parties
24 Jul 2020
Hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers impacted by data breach
Hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers impacted by data breach
Instacart denies the breach, but credit card data, addresses and transaction information are being sold on the dark web
23 Jul 2020
University of York data breach was kept quiet for two months
University of York data breach was kept quiet for two months
Software provider Blackbaud said it paid a ransom on the assurance the criminals will delete the stolen data
22 Jul 2020
Twitter investigates possibility that DMs were accessed during Bitcoin hack
Twitter investigates possibility that DMs were accessed during Bitcoin hack
Twitter maintains the attack was the result of 'social engineering', although reports suggest an employee may have been bribed
17 Jul 2020
Brave accuses the ICO of ‘falling asleep at the wheel’
Brave accuses the ICO of ‘falling asleep at the wheel’
Brave highlights understaffing and a failure to use statutory powers to investigate the "UK's largest-ever data breach"
13 Jul 2020
Twitter alerts business customers after flagging data breach
Twitter alerts business customers after flagging data breach
The company has apologised for an error that meant third-parties may have had local access to personal data
23 Jun 2020
Activists publish 269GB of hacked US police force data
Activists publish 269GB of hacked US police force data
DDoSecrets publish more than one million 'BlueLeaks' files including documents, videos and emails
22 Jun 2020
Niche dating apps expose almost 1TB of user data
Niche dating apps expose almost 1TB of user data
Sensitive material, including images and voice recordings, has been exposed due to a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket
16 Jun 2020
Nintendo hack was twice as big as first reported
Nintendo hack was twice as big as first reported
The Japanese games company has admitted that 300,000 accounts were affected by recent breach
10 Jun 2020
Babylon Health admits to leak of GP video consultations
Babylon Health admits to leak of GP video consultations
Patients were given access to the video consultations of others, with one user able to access more than 50 recordings
10 Jun 2020
Fitness Depot notifies customers of data breach
Fitness Depot notifies customers of data breach
The fitness retailer has said its ISP was to blame for a breach of its online store
8 Jun 2020
Amtrak Guest Reward suffers a data breach
Amtrak Guest Reward suffers a data breach
Amtrak discloses unauthorized third-party access to Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts
3 Jun 2020
EasyJet faces class-action lawsuit over data breach
EasyJet faces class-action lawsuit over data breach
If successful, every customer impacted by the breach could receive a £2,000 payout
26 May 2020
Report finds 90% of data breaches are financially motivated
Report finds 90% of data breaches are financially motivated
Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Report also found web application breaches rose 43% year-on-year
20 May 2020
EasyJet hack exposes details of nine million customers
EasyJet hack exposes details of nine million customers
Data breach also saw attackers access the credit card details of 2,208 users
19 May 2020
GoDaddy admits it fell victim to data breach in October
GoDaddy admits it fell victim to data breach in October
An unauthorised third-party gained access to login information used to connect to SSH protocol on hosting accounts
5 May 2020
Kinomap data breach exposes 42 million records
Kinomap data breach exposes 42 million records
40GB of exposed data includes users' names and personal details
22 Apr 2020
SOS Online Backup breach exposes 135 million customer records
SOS Online Backup breach exposes 135 million customer records
This massive breach could have legal ramifications for this industry-leading provider
2 Apr 2020
Marriott data breach exposes personal data of 5.2 million guests
Marriott data breach exposes personal data of 5.2 million guests
The hotel chain has notified guests of a second massive data breach within 18 months
31 Mar 2020
General Electric employees hit by Canon data breach
General Electric employees hit by Canon data breach
A raft of information, including passports and social security numbers, was accessed for 10 days in February
24 Mar 2020
Printing company exposes 343GB of sensitive military data
Printing company exposes 343GB of sensitive military data
The leak is the latest in a series of data blunders discovered by vpnMentor's web-mapping project
20 Mar 2020