Breaches and Hacks Archive
A US government report has revealed the health care sector is the sector worst-affected by data breaches. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ 2020 Healthcare Breach Report, security incidents in hospitals and medical clinics resulted in …
Last year’s SolarWinds hack draws attention to a major cybersecurity issue. SolarWinds is a software development company. One of its products, Orion, is a monitoring and management platform designed to simplify IT administration. The product is very popular and is …
This is a guest article written by David Balaban. The author’s views are entirely his own and may not reflect the views of IT Governance USA. Ransomware is one of the most unnerving phenomenon in the cyber threat landscape. It …
According to Corporate Compliance Insights, more than 50 percent of U.S. businesses are struggling to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Far too many U.S. organizations consider the GDPR to be a strictly European problem, even though …
The attorney generals from all U.S. states announced that California-based Uber was hit with a $148 million fine for failing to report a 2016 data breach. Uber initially tried to cover the breach up, eventually reporting it a year later. …
Matanuska-Susitna, an Alaskan borough just north of Anchorage, declared disaster last month after its systems were infected with various strains of malware. The attack was reportedly multi-vectored, comprising the Emotet Trojan horse, BitPaymer ransomware, and a cyber criminal hacking into …
On August 3, the NDUS (North Dakota University System) reported an employee’s email account had been accessed by an unauthorized user. NDUS Chancellor Mark Hagerott, who led staff of the university in a security measures protocol meeting immediately following the …
Cyber attacks are one of the biggest threats to global stability in the next five years, says the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2018. Every organization is at risk of cyber attacks and data breaches. More than half of …
New research from Shred-it’s 2018 State of the Industry Report has revealed that 84% of C-suites and 51% of small business owners have named employee negligence as one of the biggest information security risks to US businesses. Employee negligence was named as a top data breach concern. Key findings: …
Last week, criminals hacked 119 million records from MyHeritage, an online DNA and genealogy testing service, and Ticketfly, an online ticket distribution site. Hacked websites cause chaos According to MarketWatch, 92 million MyHeritage email addresses and ‘hashed’ passwords were hacked. …
