Data breach stories - Page 14

New Zealand property management firm LPM Property Management left over 31,000 images of personal information exposed on an unsecured Amazon database.

8.4 billion documents were leaked in the first three months of 2020, smashing records and setting a sombre tone for the year.

GoDaddy, the largest domain registrar with 77 million domains, discloses a data breach affecting users' SSH accounts, impacting 19 million customers worldwide.

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency has been responsible for the leaking of tens of thousands of images of travellers and license plates.

Salesforce faces backlash after a major outage left EU and North America customers' data vulnerable, with permissions issues causing significant disruptions.

Yahoo proposes USD $117.5m settlement for breaches impacting billions. Judge Lucy Koh's approval will determine if it's truly sufficient to address the fallout.

Facebook's reputation takes another hit as 540 million user records are exposed due to misconfigured AWS servers.

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

Largest ever database of breached login details leaked on dark web, containing over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.

In 2018, over a billion people were impacted by data breaches. From British Airways to Marriott, NordVPN highlights the most severe security lapses.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Dell is asking all of its Dell.com customers to change their passwords after it detected 'unauthorised activity' on its network earlier this month.

Google's management was aware of the bug but chose not to share it with the public to avoid scrutiny by regulators.

US retailers are neglecting encryption despite storing more data in the cloud, leading to a 50% surge in data breaches, a Thales report reveals.

Leaked personal information includes names, credentials, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and home addresses.

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.

Multiple US officials have announced the intelligence community had evidence that states had been compromised by Russia but didn't tell anyone.

Equifax has ushered in a new chief information security officer as the fallout continues from the company's massive US data breach last year.