UniCredit Hackers Try to Sell Employee Data on Cyber-Crime Forums April 21, 2020 By Daniele Lepido and Sonia Sirletti Data on about 3,000 UniCredit SpA employees was put up for sale on cyber-crime forums after a hacking attack. The...
CyberCube Releases New Edition of Cyber Accumulation Model April 20, 2020 CyberCube, the cyber analytics provider for the insurance industry, has released an updated version of Portfolio Manager, the cyber risk...
Cyber Criminals Increasingly Will Target Top Executives in Ransomware Attacks: Report April 14, 2020 Senior executives increasingly will be targeted by cyber criminals looking for ways to steal money from large corporations, according to...
UK’s Virgin Media, Owned by Liberty Global, Reports Database Breach March 6, 2020 Virgin Media, owned by Liberty Global, on Thursday reported a breach that allowed unauthorized access to the cable company’s database...
UK Fines Cathay Pacific $639,000 for Data-Security Lapses over 4-Year Period March 6, 2020 By Stephanie Bodoni Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. was fined 500,000 pounds ($639,000) by the UK’s privacy watchdog for failing to protect customers’ data...
Canadian Lab Test Firm, LifeLabs, Pays Ransom After Data Breach December 20, 2019 Lab test provider LifeLabs said Tuesday that it paid a ransom to secure data for Canadians that was stolen in...
As Breaches Rise, So Do Cybersecurity Pros’ Paychecks August 8, 2019 By Anders Melin It took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned cybersecurity expert to join one of America’s largest...
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...
Hong Kong’s Privacy Watchdog Slams Cathay Pacific for 2018 Data Breach June 10, 2019 Airline Cathay Pacific has been found to have not followed data protection principles in relation to the security of passengers’...
Bayer Detects and Covertly Monitors Cyber Attack – Before It Removes Threat April 4, 2019 By Patricia Weiss and Ludwig Burger German drugmaker Bayer has contained a cyber attack it believes was hatched in China, the company said, highlighting the risk...