In Pictures: Worst data breaches of 2014
We used 1 million records exposed as our floor in creating this list. Starting with a number that big says a lot about the state of data security.
Sensitive personal details of individuals, including whether they appeared on the Dow Jones Watchlist of risky individuals, were exposed by a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.
Amazon.com was asked by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to brief them on security protocols for its cloud storage service after a massive data breach of Capital One by a suspect formerly employed by the online retailer.
Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday the personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of about 100 million individuals in the United States were obtained by a hacker who has now been arrested.
Credit-reporting company Equifax will pay up to US$700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, in a landmark settlement that was nonetheless criticized by consumer advocates and some lawmakers who called for stricter regulation.
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov described the arrested man as a "wizard" hacker and said the country should hire similar "unique brains" to work for the state rather than against it
Upon discovering that someone has illegitimately accessed data on the network, IT managers initially believe (hope, really) that the threat came from outside. But as recent, headline-grabbing data breaches demonstrate, a lapse in internal security — whether accidental or malicious — is often what enabled the attack to succeed, in spite of robust external security. Download this whitepaper to see how to minimize the risk of the internal threat to the availability, confidentiality and integrity of AD.