Tag: data breach

British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack

A hack that accessed the personal data of around half a million British Airways customers has earned the firm a record £183 million fine Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208964-british-airways-faces-largest-ever-data-breach-fine-for-2018-hack/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Former Equifax CIO Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Insider Training

An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
A former Equifax executive who sold his stock in the consumer credit reporting firm before it announced a massive data breach has been sentenced to four months in federal prison for insider trading. Jun Ying, former chief information officer for the company’s US Information Solutions, was also ordered to pay about $117,000 in restitution and a $55,000…

Desjardins Data Breach Affecting 2.9 Million Members Caused By Employee Who’s Since Been Fired

Freshly Exhumed shares a report from The Georgia Straight: The Quebec-based Desjardins Group has admitted to being victimized by one of the largest data breaches in Canadian history. Laval police informed the financial-services giant that personal information of more than 2.9 million members has been shared with people outside of the organization. This includes 2.7 million people and 173,000 businesses. “This…

Tech Companies Need To Take Responsibility For the ‘Chaos’ They Create, Tim Cook Says

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Sunday in a commencement address at Stanford University that technology companies need to take responsibility for the “chaos” they create. From a report: He did not name specific companies in his speech, but referenced several reasons that tech firms, particularly social media platforms, have come under scrutiny in recent months. He also made an apparent reference…

Mozilla Debuts Its New Firefox Logos

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today introduced a new Firefox family of logos, a rebranding effort it kicked off more than 18 months ago. For most people, Firefox refers to a browser, but the company now wants the brand to encompass the entire Firefox family of apps and services. “The ‘Firefox’ you’ve always known as a browser is stretching to cover…

Boost Mobile Says Hackers Broke into Customer Accounts

Boost Mobile is informing customers of a data breach nearly two months after it happened. “Boost.com experienced unauthorized online account activity in which an unauthorized person accessed your account through your Boost phone number and Boost.com PIN code,” said the notification. “The Boost Mobile fraud team discovered the incident and was able to implement a permanent solution to prevent similar unauthorized…

App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet

For your regular reminder that developers across the world sometimes have real trouble putting any sort of protection on their databases, third party apps left Facebook user data exposed to the open internet, according to cybersecurity firm UpGuard. Bloomberg was first to report the news. The data exposures do not come from Facebook itself, but… Continue reading App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet