UK’s largest payday loan company, Wonga, suffered a data breach in 2017 that compromised the data of up to 270,000 of the firm’s millions of customers. This is one of the UK’s biggest data breaches involving financial information. The breached data of past and present customers included...
LONDON – The Marriott hotel group has revealed that it suffered one of the biggest corporate data breaches in history. Attackers stole personal data from half-a-billion customers contained in the reservation database used by the company’s Starwood Group. The stolen data related to reservations a...
and the company has taken steps to limit third-party access to data. However, this incident underscored the challenges tech companies face in ensuring data security across their entire ecosystem.
Over the summer, LendingTree acknowledged it suffered two data breaches in the past year, but it denied allegations that it was responsible for a larger breach and that it had "downplayed" the events. After allegations in a class action lawsuit that the company had suffered a breach affecting...
The seller was part of a group that gained access to the database through former Aadhaar employees, according toThe Tribune. ZDNetlater reportedthe leak was on a system run by a state-owned utility company that had access to the database via an unsecured API used to verify customer...
Major data breaches in Southeast Asian countries evidence the region's weaknesses in the areas of cybersecurity and data protection.
Learn about some of the biggest data breaches that have impacted Australian businesses, including recent cyberattacks in 2021.
Verizon's 2020 report found that organized criminal groups committed 55 % of breaches, and 86% were financially motivated, knowing that any company that collects and deals in data must take the threat seriously. Building a security culture means accounting for threats in every decision you make ...
Incredibly, Yahoo has twice been the victim of major data breaches. In 2013, 3 billion accounts were hacked, pretty much the entire database of all users at that point. Confirmation didn't come until 2017, after a four-year investigation. Further, the once popular webmail and search engine...
5 of the biggest data breaches ever If you live in the U.S. and breathe oxygen, there's a good chance you may be impacted by the latest security breach. Equifax (EFX) revealed Thursday that the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans -- or nearly half the country --...