AT&T Data Leak: Millions of Customers’ Information Exposed on the Dark Web Written by WebProNews Saturday, March 30, 2024 In a stunning revelation, AT&T, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, has disclosed that a data set containing personal information from ...
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...
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...
Data Leak So, I’ve mentioned a data breach, but what is a data leak, you ask? Is there a difference? Yep. While a breach involves an outsider like a hacker (think of the dude in movies who’s always sitting in a van with computers and saying things like, “All right, I’m in...
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 ...
The source of the data leak was an unsafe backup in the cloud. ParkMobile In March 2021, ParkMobile discovered a cybersecurity incident that exploited a vulnerability in a company’s third-party software. The security team immediately started to investigate, but the perpetrator already accessed and...
Last year, in 2022, the state Attorney General settled with 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 sh...
This incident was part of a larger data leak impacting 18 companies and exposing 386 million records. The compromised database of 444,000 records included user records with email addresses belonging to: The University of Sydney The University of New South Wales The University of Melbourne The ...