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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