Private companies store huge amounts of private data. What they store and how they store it needs to be much better regulated. The Optus hack, for example, revealed the company was keeping data not only from current customers but also past customers. Given how often customers change telecom p...
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Privacy protection company Surfshark analyzed 5.3 billion data points from the most significant breaches of the past year, including Facebook, (...)
The SEC is investigating whether two massive data breaches at Yahoo should have been reported sooner to investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. An SEC spokesman declined to comment. A Yahoo spokesman directed Reuters to the company’s November...
Choice Point, Inc., has become a focal point for these concerns after the consumer data company experienced a security breach that reportedly affected more than 140,000 people in all 50 states. Given the nature of the kind of data held by Choice Point, this breach led to consumer outrage ...
Data breaches can have a devastating impact on any company, depending on the scale and the importance of the data compromised. While modern-day tech companies try to safeguard their infrastructure from such incidents, attackers always tend to find a way to breach their systems. Mobile virtual net...
into the accounts of Yahoo users via “forged ‘cookies'” – bits of code lying hidden in the user’s browser cache so that a website doesn’t require a login with every visit. The company claimed the breaches were “state-sponsored” and acknowledged that a hacker accessed proprietary ...
When It Comes to Protecting Data, We’re All in This Together If there’s one overarching narrative in all these recent data breaches, it’s that cybersecurity failures don’t happen in isolation. A compromised database at one company will resurface as credential stuffing attacks at another. ...
Recent Company Highlights Entered into a definitive agreement with Peak Bio Inc. (Peak Bio) to merge as equals in an all-stock transaction. The combined entity will operate as Akari Therapeutics, Plc, which is expected to continue to be listed and trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market as AKTX...
These goals can range from exploring systems out of curiosity, stealing sensitive data and defacing websites to illegally profiting from system manipulation. In the context of cryptocurrencies, hackers target exchanges, wallets and users to steal funds. The latest news on hackers shows that no ...