Yahoo’s UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.…
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Barely more than one-in-five companies are well-prepared for a cyber attack, information technology survey indicates
The survey found that trust is the new battleground for IT, as organisations delicately balance the revenue-driving potential of using customer data with the need for privacy and security. The…
GDPR Too Close, Half of Global Companies Not Ready
Kacy Zurkus With only one month remaining before the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, many organizations are still scrambling to be in compliance. That could result in…
Lyft investigates privacy abuse claim
Dave Lee Ride-sharing company Lyft, seen as Uber’s biggest rival, is investigating an anonymous claim that employees were abusing customer’s private data. The allegations, posted online, suggested that employees looked…
Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
60GB MSSQL database contained customer records and other sensitive data. By Steve Ragan Scottrade Bank, a subsidiary of Scottrade Financial Services, Inc., recently secured a MSSQL database containing sensitive information…
Thousands warned they may be victims of rogue webmaster
Police in the Netherlands are contacting more than 20,000 people who they suspect had their data stolen by a rogue web developer. They say the man coded a backdoor into…