Concerned about being hacked? Now you have to worry about outer space? NASA is reportedly investigating what’s said to be the first ever instance of a space crime. According to a report by The New York Times, the space organization is currently looking into a claim that astronaut Anne McClain improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse Summer Worden while aboard the International More »
The use of facial recognition, iris recognition or fingerprints — referred to as Biometric authentication; is seen by many experts as the savior of security by allowing organizations to do away with passwords. However, on Wednesday August privacy researchers discovered a large bank of unprotected biometric, password and other personal data open on the internet. The data, which belong to the BioStar 2 identity and access More »
Capital One Financial Corp announced Monday that the FBI has arrested an alleged hacker who accessed the personal information of as many as 6 million people in Canada and 100 million people in the United States. For Canadians, the hack compromised 1 million social insurance numbers (SIN). The information exposed in the hack was largely linked to consumers and small businesses that applied for Capital One credit card More »
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fine against Marriott as the result of a major security breach in 2018 that resulted in more than 339 million guest records being exposed. The $123 million GDPR fine is approximately 3 percent of the company’s $3.6 billion in global annual revenue. The maximum fine under the GDPR rules can now More »
Fines continue to be levied for data breaches across the planet, and a $700 million settlement from credit-reporting company Equifax has been trending on Google News. It is the largest settlement related to a data breach that we have ever seen. Equifax experienced a major data breach in 2017, which exposed the private information of around 147 million customers. As part of the settlement, Equifax More »
The U.K. data regulator is fining British Airways 183 million pounds ($229 million) over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers. The airline revealed in September that it had been the victim of a hack. The scam saw customers diverted to a fake website where credit card details were harvested by the attackers. Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office says its investigation found “poor More »
Desjardins announced Thursday June 20, 2019 that the private information of around 2.7 million of its clients was leaked by an employee. According to a report from CBC, the employee gained access to much of this data by gaining the trust of their co-workers and leveraging that to gain access to their permissions. “Not every breach is caused by a malicious nation-state. Insiders account for More »
© Provided by Canadian Press Enterprises Inc MONTREAL — Desjardins Group said Thursday the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization. The Quebec-based financial institution said the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members. It said the situation is the result of unauthorized and illegal use of its internal data More »
Freedom Mobile confirmed Tuesday it had a data security breach from late March to late April 2019, but the wireless carrier said only about 15,000 customers were affected — far fewer than an outside research firm’s estimate. The Calgary-based company — which operates networks in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia — was apparently warned of the breach by researchers at vpnMentor, which announced it to More »
McAfee has released its latest report “Grand Theft 2”. Here is a link to the full report here https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/restricted/rp-data-exfiltration-2.pdf The results were from a survey of 700 IT and security pros who worked at organizations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As the graph indicates, compared to 2015, intentional breaches by employees have dropped from 30 percent More »