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23andMe's disastrous data breach just landed it a regulatory probe
By George Fitzmaurice published
News 23andMe received flack for its botched handling of the incident after it pinned the blame on customers

Frontier Communications confirms over 750,000 people affected in data breach
By George Fitzmaurice published
News Frontier Communications fell victim to a data breach in April after an unauthorized third party gained access to the firm’s systems

Banking details of 30 million Santander customers exposed during breach allegedly up for sale on the dark web
By Solomon Klappholz published
News The ShinyHunters threat group claims to have financial data stolen during a data breach on 14 May after an attack on an unknown third party

BBC pension scheme data breach exposes more than 25,000 current and former employees
By Emma Woollacott published
News Thousands of current and former BBC employees have been impacted by the breach, prompting the corporation to offer credit monitoring services

Speculation mounts over how Ticketmaster hackers stole half a billion customer records
By Solomon Klappholz published
News More than half a billion Ticketmaster users have been impacted by the breach

Dell hacker claims they had access to systems for nearly three weeks
By Solomon Klappholz published
News The hacker trying to sell a Dell database containing 49 million customer records claims he was able to persist on the company’s systems for several weeks

Zscaler praised for swift response amid data breach claims – but what happened?
By Solomon Klappholz published
Zscaler has received praise from cyber professionals for its response to an alleged data breach, but as the saga continues, customer uncertainty remains

Dell says data breach affecting 49 million customers poses no 'significant risk’
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Dell claims customers aren’t exposed to significant risk in the wake of a major breach, but they should be wary of targeted social engineering attacks.

Nearly half of EMEA data breaches were due to internal blunders in 2023
By Emma Woollacott published
News Misuse of privileges and other human errors are rife, with two-thirds of breaches involving a non-malicious human action

Sisense breach could have far-reaching consequences as CISA urges businesses to rotate credentials
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Millions of access tokens, keys, and passwords were exposed in a major breach affecting data analytics company Sisense, with CISA urging businesses to rotate and reset any credentials they may have shared with the company
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