Bad actor was inside social network for months without being detected By Simon Sharwood Nostalgia aggregator Timehop has revised its advice about the data breach it reported earlier this week.…
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340 Million Records Exposed in Exactis Breach
Kacy Zurkus Another major data breach has left roughly 340 million records exposed by data aggregation firm Exactis after information was left on a publicly accessible server. The 2 terabytes’ worth…
Altaba Fined $35m for Yahoo Breach Notification Failings
Phil Muncaster The company formerly known as Yahoo has agreed to pay a $35m penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission after failing to notify the market promptly about a breach…
Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 over data breach
Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a data breach in 2015. Hackers gained unauthorised access to the personal data of more than three…
50K Australians Exposed in Server Misconfig Snafu
Tara Seals Personal details of almost 50,000 Australian employees have been compromised in the country’s largest data breach since the Red Cross leaks. Reports state that up to 48,270 personal…
Malaysian data breach sees 46 million phone numbers leaked
A massive data breach has seen the customer data of more than 46 million mobile subscribers in Malaysia leaked on to the dark web. The leaked information includes mobile numbers,…