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Robinhood Exploit Results In Leak Of 7 Million Users' Personal Data
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 4:37am | 352Financial services company Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ: HOOD) reported a data security incident where the personal information of over seven million users was compromised. What Happened: In a statement on Monday, Robinhood, which allows trading of stocks and cryptocurrencies on its...
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T-Mobile Investigates Massive Data Breach Affecting Up To 100M Customers
Sunday, August 15, 2021 - 3:39pm | 233T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is investigating an online forum post that claims the personal data of over 100 million users have been compromised, Vice reports. A hacker claims to have gained access to the T-Mobile servers obtaining data, including social security numbers,...
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SEC Fines First American Financial $487K For 'Deficient Disclosure Controls' Over Data Breach
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 11:05am | 371First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) has agreed to a $487,616 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that resolves charges related to a data breach that exposed confidential customer information. What Happened: The SEC alleged that First American Financial received...
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Alibaba's Taobao Shopping Site Succumbs To Colossal Data Leak: WSJ
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 3:22pm | 579A Chinese software developer sifted Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (NYSE: BABA) Taobao shopping website for eight months and secretly collected over 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed, the Wall Street Journal reported from a Chinese court verdict....
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Data Breach Hits 44 Big Canada Post Shippers, Exposing Nearly 1M Customers
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 4:07pm | 412Canada Post said on Wednesday that a cyberattack and data breach on an electronic data interchange (EDI) supplier has compromised information from 44 of its large parcel business customers, affecting nearly 1 million recipients. The attack on Ontario-based Commport Communications compromised the...
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LinkedIn Denies Data Breach Allegations: Report
Friday, April 9, 2021 - 12:13pm | 385Microsoft Inc (NASDAQ: MSFT) owned professional network platform, LinkedIn, suffered a massive data hack compromising 500 million user profiles, the quint reports based on CyberNews. The data hack included users’ email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information...
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Facebook Won't Tell The 533 Million Users Their Data Was Compromised In Massive Breach
Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 4:03am | 448Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) does not plan to notify more than 530 million users whose personal information was leaked online in a massive data breach, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing a Facebook spokesman. What Happened: The social media company's spokesman said it was not confident on...
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Tesla Factories And Warehouses Impacted In Massive Security-Camera Breach: Report
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 1:11am | 522Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) was among the several companies that were impacted by a massive security-camera breach, with hackers gaining access to live footage from the electric car maker’s factories and warehouses, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. What Happened: According to the report, a group of...
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Another Alibaba-Backed Grocer Suffers Massive Data Breach
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 4:42am | 344In more trouble for the Chinese tech giant, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BABA)-backed Indian grocer BigBasket suffered a massive data breach affecting a million users, Bloomberg reports. The cyberattack comes a few weeks after another Alibaba-backed e-...
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Alibaba's Lazada Suffers Data Breach Involving 1.1M Users
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 4:53am | 400Singapore-based Lazada Group, an e-commerce company owned by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BABA), disclosed that 1.1 million users were affected in a data breach. According to CNBC, all affected users were part of the RedMart database — the company's...
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UPDATE: TQL Says Data Breach Was Not Malware Or Ransomware Attack
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 9:50am | 736Total Quality Logistics (TQL) says it will continue to work with an expert cybersecurity firm to find out how external hackers breached its IT systems and gained access to some carriers' sensitive business information. Tom Millikin, corporate communications manager of TQL, told FreightWaves the...
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BREAKING: Carriers Notified Of Hacker Data Breach Of TQL's IT Systems
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 1:55pm | 256Carriers were notified around 11 a.m. on Thursday that external hackers had breached Total Quality Logistics (TQL) IT systems and may have gained access to customers' business information. According to an email sent out to carriers by Kerry Bryne, president of TQL, hackers may have gained access...
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Macy's Acknowledges Data Breach, Stock Falls
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 2:08pm | 363Macy's Inc (NYSE: M) acknowledged in a letter to customers it was the victim of a data breach and personal information could have been compromised. What To Know About The Macy's Data Breach Macy's believes an unauthorized third party gained access to its system and added an unauthorized...
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Experts Discuss Google's Secretive Project Nightingale
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 6:38pm | 389Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google unit is actively storing and analyzing patient data with the major hospital system Ascension in an initiative dubbed Project Nightingale. Howley: Nothing Illegal Google's relationship with Ascension dates back a year and is fully...
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New Ways To Prevent Security Breaches: How Censys Is At The Forefront
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 4:32pm | 482Internet security veteran Censys Inc. provides digital asset tracking and advanced detection services, which are used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and several Fortune 500 companies. As technology and data services evolve, it's increasingly imperative for companies and individuals...