Yale University is being taken to court following the discovery of two data breaches that occurred a decade ago. Hackers infiltrated the Ivy League’s databases between April 2008 and January 2009, stealing names, social security numbers, email addresses, birth dates, and physical addresses. Two lawsuits have now been filed claiming damages for the incidents. Officials […]
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Facebook data breach down to spammers seeking cash
Facebook has announced that its recent data hack was down to spammers aiming to cash in on user data, not a foreign government attack, as was first suspected. The attempted theft, which was discovered and subsequently disclosed to regulatory authorities at the end of September, was initially thought to have affected 50m user accounts. The […]
Facebook data breach affected 3 million users in Europe
The data breach suffered by Facebook is now thought to have compromised the personal details of 3m of the social network’s users in Europe, the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) has announced. Facebook discovered the breach at the end of September this year, after hackers managed to access user accounts via a glitch in the […]
US regulator issues record data breach fine
US regulator issues record data breach fine The second-biggest health insurer in the US has been hit by a record-breaking $1.6m penalty for a data privacy breach dating back to 2015. Anthem, which is based in Indianapolis, suffered a cyber-attack three years ago which compromised the personal information of almost 80 million individuals. Details accessed […]
Data breach hits up to 30,000 workers at the Pentagon
News reports have emerged that a data breach at the Pentagon has left up to 30,000 workers affected, after a contractor left infrastructural vulnerabilities which hackers used to gain access to private details. The Pentagon, which is the headquarters of the US Department of Defence, revealed how the contractor inadvertently compromised the personal details of […]
Twitter’s turn to fall under GDPR scrutiny
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) are looking into the extent of Twitter’s compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As reported by Fortune, a researcher used a short link provided by Twitter to request more knowledge of the data held on them. However, the platform refused to submit the information, in contravention of the […]
Facebook hack victims fewer than first thought
Automated software led to hackers accessing the private information of 29 million Facebook users in last week’s highly publicised data breach, Reuters reports. GDPR:Report last week described how the social media giant’s most recent data privacy transgression was thought to have compromised in the region of 50 million accounts’ details, but the number of people […]
Social Media poses biggest data breach threat
Following the amount of airtime devoted to scandals from Facebook / Cambridge Analytica to Google+, it may come as no surprise that social media platforms pose the biggest danger when it comes to data breaches. Gemalto’s latest Breach Level Index, which keeps a record of the world’s public data breaches points the finger firmly at […]
Cybersecurity ‘what if’ scenarios: what would you do?
Do you think about your digital identity? Many of us are at least somewhat in tune to our reputations – how we look, how we feel and what is happening in our social circles. However, the extension of ourselves in today’s digital world is not as material as the ways we often think of when […]
Regulator in Ireland asks for more knowledge on Google+ data breach
The Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) is to ask Google for more details regarding a bug which led to the revealing of 500,000 Google+ users this week, a CNBC report reveals. The ubiquitous search engine giant took to social media on Monday to disclose the issue to the world, admitting that the glitch meant tech […]