Since the inception of Facebook, we have seen it develop and evolve rapidly. From its early days as a social network to share posts and photos with friends and colleagues, it has now become a massive global advertising network. Did you know Facebook has approximately 2.41 billion monthly active users? As the biggest worldwide social…

Organisational data could come across serious pitfalls via which data can be easily compromised. This is especially true of websites and online businesses where large volumes of sensitive information are shared between the individual and the company. A recent case in point is Facebook, that revealed the user data of millions of its consumers was…

First published by Steve Evans, ReInsuranceNews, 31 July 2019. Capital One, the U.S. and global banking and personal finance group, has disclosed a $400 million cyber insurance tower that the market is now watching closely, following its hacking and loss of data for more than 100 million of its customers. Capital One said on July…

First published by: Richard Lawler, engadget (@Rjcc), 19 July 2019 Remember that time Equifax had a data breach and leaked an incredible amount of information — addresses, social security numbers and even driver’s licenses — on more than 143 million people in the US alone? That was revealed nearly two years ago, and tonight media…

First published by Carolyn Cummins, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 30 2019. LandMark White claims it is the victim of a saboteur bent on destroying the listed valuation firm after it was hit with another data leak.  On Thursday night, the company revealed that valuation and related commercial documents had been uploaded to international document…

First published: June 20, 2019 by The Canadian Press Desjardins Group says the personal information of more than 2.9-million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization. The Quebec-based financial institution says the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members.  It says the situation is the result of…

Published by Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • June 20, 2019     The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay hackers about $600,000 in bitcoin to end a ransomware attack that crippled the city’s IT infrastructure for nearly a month Riviera Beach is one of several governmental units hit by ransomware attacks during the…

First published by Shawn Lim–24 May 2019 07:56am, thedrum.com Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has introduced three new initiatives which aim to promote innovation through trust by holding businesses accountable for the way they collect consumers’ personal data. Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s data protection initiative GDPR, the PDPC, which…

Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data. Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info. First published by Thomas Clanburn, 17th May 2019, theregister.co.uk. Unlucky Salesforce customers have been unable to reach the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to…

Hacker claims to have stolen the data of 139 million Canva users. Original story by ZDNet, Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | May 24, 2019 Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach,…