data breaches

Stolen data contained users’ names, addresses, hashed passwords

The incident affected 9.4 million customers and led to at least 60,000 instances of fraud

Billing data, email addresses, user names, and encrypted passwords all leaked to the dark web

The National Insurance numbers of thousands of individuals applying for disability benefit were left online

Reservation platform used by Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia left sensitive data exposed on a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket

Around 13 billion user files are believed to be circulating on hacker forums

Malicious code was embedded on the site for six months and captured personal and payment information

The decision to issue a substantially lower fine once again raises questions as to the effectiveness of GDPR enforcement

The tally smashes 2019’s record, despite a decline in the number of security incidents

Vastaamo CEO Ville Tapio was reportedly fired for obscuring information about the incident for more than two years

The worker leaked customer email addresses to an unidentified third-party

Forrester expects internal incidents to cause a third of breaches next year, an 8% increase compared to 2020

The Information Commissioner's Office will now fine the airline £20 million for a data breach that affected over 400,000 customers

Government departments reported scores of breaches and made numerous notifications to the ICO between 2019 and 2020

Webhose will send dark web data to Signal Corp, allowing it to detect breaches early and alert enterprises

German wing of the fashion retailer violated GDPR by chronicling and sharing employee holiday experiences

The company has blamed a "technical issue" for the leak that saw hosts' data made available to others

Nathan Wyatt is the only member of the prolific hacking group to be identified

Human error sees Welsh residents' details leaked for 20 hours on a public-facing server

Is reputational damage from a data breach really worth worrying about?

Joseph Sullivan allegedly paid $100,000 to conceal the ride-hailing firm's 2016 data breach

The lawsuit is seeking compensation for the hotel's UK-based customers involved in the breach

The P&O parent company says it expects that cyber criminals accessed the personal data of guests and employees

Credit card fraudsters potentially compromised the personal data of guests visiting the five-star hotel