Every relationship is built on trust. Trust is at the core of every lasting relationship, whether it’s between family members, between spouses, between organizations and their customers, and even between citizens and their government. At the start of this week, this trust was unfortunately violated in Bulgaria. The data of 5M people was leaked from
It’s been released that hackers stole £130bn from consumers in 2017, and that number is only predicted to rise in 2018. Hackers wasted no time and were off to a quick start in the new year, especially following their success in 2017. Let’s recap what hackers have been up to in January.
From a Republican National Committee contractor exposing voting data on nearly 200 million people to Equifax revealing a breach impacting over 143 million people – it’s safe to say that when it comes to data breaches, 2017 has kept us on our toes. So much so that more data was lost or stolen in the
Recent research confirms that a third of the internet is under attack, with millions of network addresses subjected to DDoS attacks over a two year period (source). And as I write these monthly hacks and breaches reviews, this statement comes as no surprise. Just because it’s officially the holiday season, it doesn’t mean that hackers
Another month, another absurd amount of data breached. The start of October saw an update in one of the most notorious data breaches of all time: Yahoo said in a statement that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in data breach which occurred in 2013. This tripled the original number of thought accounts
All data breaches are bad, but this past Thursday the United States was shook by one of the biggest breaches the world has ever seen. Equifax, a credit monitoring company, disclosed that the breach of its system exposed the Social Security Numbers, driver’s licenses, phone numbers, birthdays and addresses of as many as 143 million
New research shows that at the end of 2016, predictions were being made that the amount of cyberattacks are set to double in 2017 – as we are inching towards the end of 2017, those predictions were made true. And then some. August proved to be a busy month, with cyberattacks hitting every sector and
With July being the official halfway mark in the year, it’s safe to say that 2017 is giving us both the expected and not-expected hacks and breaches, hitting every industry and affecting just about every country in our world. And this is coming at a pretty high cost. According to a report released by Lloyd’s
It’s only May, and 2017 is well on its way to set a new cyberattack record. As new statistics show, there have been over 1,200 reported data breaches and around 4,800 discovered vulnerabilities released in the first quarter of this year. So, while this post may focus on the month of May – and some
April showers bring… hacks and breaches? Our list of April cyber-events begins with Dallas residents getting quite the fright as a hacker triggered the city’s emergency sirens. In early April, users of Wonga, a payday loan firm, were alerted about a data breach. The breach is said to affect 245,000 accounts in the UK and
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