Capital One Breach Clouds Technology Strategy; Puts $400M Cyber Insurance in Play August 1, 2019 By Jenny Surane and Lananh Nguyen Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The...
Capital One Reports Data Breach of 100 Million Accounts; Suspect Arrested July 29, 2019 By Uday Sampath Capital One Financial Corp. said on Monday personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100...
Premera Blue Cross in Northwest to Pay States $10M in Data Breach July 16, 2019 By Gene Johnson Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states...
DNA Testing Service Left Client Health Records Open to Public July 12, 2019 By Nico Grant DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy...
British Airways Faces Record $230M Fine for Data Breach Under New GDPR Rules July 8, 2019 By Paul Sandle British Airways-owner IAG is facing a record $230 million fine for the theft of data from 500,000 customers from its...
Data Breaches That Take Minutes to Occur, Often Require Months to Discover July 3, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield While it typically only takes a short amount of time for a successful breach to compromise data, the amount of...
Canada’s Desjardins Blames Employee for Leak of Personal Details of 2.9M Customers June 21, 2019 By Doug Alexander Desjardins Group, the largest financial co-operative in North America, said an “ill-intentioned” employee illegally exposed the personal information of some...
British Hacker Gets 4 Years in Jail for TalkTalk Data Breach June 12, 2019 By Jonathan Browning A British man who hacked TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc, blackmailed executives and offered to supply customer data has been jailed...
Title Insurer First American Says App Defect May Have Exposed Customer Data May 28, 2019 U.S. real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. said on Friday it had learned of a design defect...
University Of Alaska Reaching out to People Hit by Data Breach April 30, 2019 The University of Alaska is attempting to contact people who may have been affected by a computer data breach. The...