Compiled List of Data Breaches
Here’s a detailed list of data breaches around the world you need to know about, compiled to present as far as 2012.
Here’s a detailed list of data breaches around the world you need to know about, compiled to present as far as 2012.
Blue Shield of California is one of the largest healthcare providers in the state of California. The health insurance company is nonprofit and delivers insurance to Californians all over the state. Hundreds of thousands of residents rely on the provider for their health insurance, and they trust the company with vast amounts of personal and health information.
Successful hackers have the ability to find a specific vulnerability and turn it into millions of dollars if the account is large enough. Good hackers keep it simple by using the browser as a means to attack unwitting users. Cross-site request forgery, commonly called CSRF, is an innovative attack method in which hackers use header and form data to exploit the trust a website has in a user’s browser.
Etsy, since 2005, has been a marketplace for millions of small business owners, selling everything from jewelry to toys. Without a doubt, an online criminal is lurking around every virtual corner. It is estimated that nearly six to eight million individual shop owners are doing business on the Etsy platform. One of the significant aspects of using Etsy to sell your goods is they offer fraud protection in which they pay for any fraudulent transaction under $250.
Driving for companies like Uber is always risky, as you never know who you will pick up, where you will have to take them, and if your vehicle could break down. However, drivers should not have to worry about their identities while driving. Uber was just hit by a cyber attack back in December that hurt more than 77,000 employees, and it seems the company is suffering from another serious data loss that could impact some of its drivers, yet again.
In light of recent password manager breaches, our experts have provided tips on how to protect your organization from compromised credentials. In recent weeks, cybersecurity has once again been thrust into the spotlight with the news that both LastPass and Norton LifeLock, two popular password management services, have been targeted in cyberattacks, resulting in the compromise of customer password manager accounts.
Majestic Care is a nursing home company that has more than 20 locations throughout Indiana. The organization serves elderly patients all over the state and manages a great deal of medical and financial information as a result. That's why it's so upsetting to hear that one of the company's 20 locations was hit by a cyber attack that resulted in the loss of data. If you or one of your loved ones uses the Middletown location, you may have lost important data and could be at risk.
NCB Management Services is a debt-buying company that acquires debt from other businesses and attempts to collect that debt. The organization works with many major companies, such as Bank of America, and it suffered from a serious data breach recently. Since NCB works with so many major companies, customers of those companies can be put at risk of data loss when their data is lost.
Looks like Latitude Finance is trying to give consumers more "latitude" in their exposure to cyber risks. The Australian finance company admittedly fell victim to an attack that has exposed customer data and Latitude Financial has been forced to stop adding new customers from clients such as Apple, Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi as it tries to contain the damage from criminals, who still appear to be active in its computer systems.