The UK government has called on all businesses in the country to protect themselves from the growing threat of cybercrime. Ed Vaizey, minister for culture and the digital economy, said that while many enterprises are “reaping the benefits” of being online, no organization is immune to the menace of cyberattacks. As an example, he stated … More 90% of large businesses in the UK experienced data breach
Carphone Warehouse is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after the UK high street retailer revealed that they were the victim of a major hack. The ICO, which is the UK’s official data watchdog, said that it looking into the breach, which has affected up to 2.4 million customers. A spokesman for … More ICO investigating major data breach at Carphone Warehouse in the UK
Barclays bank is to pay out around £500,000 in compensation to 2,000 customers whose personal data was found on a USB stick in a flat on the south coast of England. The USB stick was discovered during an unrelated police raid, and is thought to be encrypted, according to a report by the Herald Scotland, … More Barclays compensates customers after their personal data was compromised
The US Office of Personnel Management has admitted that the widely-publicised data breach in June was more wide-reaching than at first thought. The OPM has now publicly recognised that data records of 21.5 million people have been lost after hackers targeted central databases. The 21.5m records include present, former, and prospective government employees and contractors … More Millions of records lost in huge OPM US data breach
The “Hacking Team” security company has been hacked and more than 400 GB of confidential info has been leaked by a group of unidentified attackers. Normally, this would be just another report talking about one intrusion among all the others that we see every day in companies around the world. Hacking Team’s status as a … More 400GB of info leaked from Hacking Team
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