The data leak first came to light in 2021, whenhackers claimed they'd stolen customer data from AT&Tand would put the information up for sale. Fast-forward to March 2024, the stolen personal information was discovered on the dark web,according to Troy Hunt, creator ofHave ...
The largest reported data leakage as of January 2024 was the Cam4 data breach in March 2020, which exposed more than 10 billion data records. The second-largest data breach in history so far, the Yahoo data breach, occurred in 2013. The company initially reported about one billion exposed ...
When we talk about leaked source code with clients, most are worried about the loss of intellectual property. That’s a fair risk assessment, and the impacts can be long standing. Take for example, the leak of RSA source code in 2011, that underlined their flagship SecureID product, and w...
Date: March 2018 Impact: 1.1 billion people In March of 2018, it became public that the personal details of more than a billion citizens in India stored in the world’s largest biometric database could be bought online. This massive data breach was the result of a data leak on a system...
Infinity Insurance disclosed a data leak in March 2021—attackers temporarily achieved unauthorized access to files on the company’s servers for two days during December 2020. Here is the information leaked during this event: Employee information— The exposed servers housed PII of existing and forme...
This bug in Cloudflare’s systems is being described as a “data leak”. It is unclear at this point whether it is considered a “data breach”. A private database of customer personally identifiable information was not stolen. However, private data that may have included customer PII was l...
Privacy Breach: AOL Search Data Leak (2006) AOL's 2006 release of search query data led to a privacy breach due to inadequate anonymization. Researchers identified users from anonymized data, emphasizing the risks of insufficient data security measures in data releases. ...
Dropbox acknowledged the leak of personal data in late July, though they were quick to assure that the addresses and passwords had been stolen from “third party sites,” ultimately, because users had used very weak passwords. Alas, it was not all that simple. As it turned out, it was ...
Last year, in 2022, the state Attorney Generalsettledwith an organization $600,000 for failing to meet minimum standards that led to a breach in security and a leak of personal information. While there have been no recent updates to the law, it is still very active and enforced, as shown...
Cover all data leak channels. Cons: Limited file analyzing options. The management console, tasks, installers, and detection needs improvement. Verdict:It is trusted by famous brands like Canon, Toshiba, Honda, Allianz, Greenpeace, and more. It has been awarded ‘Best Security Product of the Ye...