Uber Total Loss: 57 Million Records Stolen But Data Breach Was Hidden For A Year

Nov 22, 2017 7:37:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Oh boy. Uber is known for pushing the limits of the law and has dozens of lawsuits pending against it, but this one went too far and now comes the reckoning. Bloomberg was first to report ...

Whole Foods Point Of Sale Data Breach. Did Amazon Buy An Organic Lemon?

Sep 29, 2017 9:39:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Uh Oh. They just announced. Generally it's the tip of the iceberg, and then over time more details are released that show it was muuuch worse than initially expected. Looks like Amazon ...

Large Insurance Company Settles for $5.5 Million over "Failed To Patch" Data Breach

Aug 16, 2017 10:06:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A large insurance company (Nationwide) agreed to pay a total of $5.5 Million to settle charges brought by 32 states resulting from the loss of critical consumer information attributable ...

Data Breaches Are Up 29 Percent Over Last Year

Jul 22, 2017 11:52:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Data breaches are running 29 percent above last year, according to a report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. Hacking was the leading cause of data breaches ...

Cleveland Medical Associates Ransomware Infection Caused 22K-Record Databreach - How To Prevent This

Jul 8, 2017 5:25:58 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cleveland Medical Associates is offering about 22,000 patients identity protection services after a ransomware attack against the practice. The practice is offering a year of protective ...

Urgent Phishing Alert: Warn Your Users Against AdultFriendFinder Scams Now

Nov 14, 2016 7:52:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Your end-users may have seen this in the news yesterday, or will read about it today. A massive data breach of the adult dating and entertainment company Friend Finder Network has exposed ...

Scam Of The Week: FBI Warns Against Data Breach Extortion

Jul 11, 2016 7:58:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The number of data breaches keeps going up. Last week it was more than 1,000 Wendy's where credit card records got ripped off. Fraudsters quickly use the news release of a high-profile ...

Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Email Change Your Password

May 21, 2016 10:33:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You probably remember the 2012 LinkedIn data breach. It was a big deal because something like 6.5 million user account passwords were posted online, but LinkedIn never confirmed the final ...

What Is The #1 Cause Of Healthcare Data Breaches?

May 14, 2016 10:00:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As a new story about hospital ransomware or a stolen laptop containing PHI seemingly emerges every day, it comes as no surprise that healthcare data breaches have steadily increased in ...

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Medstar Washington Hospital

Mar 28, 2016 8:29:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Washington Post reported that a ransomware infection penetrated the computer network of MedStar Health early Monday morning, forcing the Washington health care behemoth to shut down ...

What is the REAL cost of a data breach?

Sep 20, 2015 11:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new survey done by Kaspersky with participation of 5,500 companies in 26 countries finally shows the real cost of a data breach broken out by Small and Medium Business (SMB) and ...

Half Of Your Users Are Now Spear Phishing Targets

Sep 16, 2015 5:45:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a presentation at the Intelligence & National Security Summit, Bill Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) announced "There have been just ...

Stop The AshMad Insanity!

Aug 22, 2015 10:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

First a 10Gig dump with the full Ashley Madison database. Then a 20Gig dump with their whole Github repository, and then to top it all off a 300G(!) dump. In an interview with Motherboard ...

Phishing Alert: Warn Your Users Against Ashley Madison Scams Now

Aug 20, 2015 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Your end-users saw this in the news yesterday, or will read about it today. The hackers who stole more than 36 million records from the Ashley Madison site (which makes it easy to cheat ...

SHOCKER: Data Breaches Cost Big Companies Very Little

Apr 6, 2015 5:16:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Two articles today in Fortune Magazine and Harvard Business Review each lifted a piece of the veil about a dirty little secret about data breaches. From Home Depot to Target to Sony, big ...

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem 80 million records

Feb 5, 2015 7:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last updated Feb 7, 2015 - Both the Wall Street Journal and cyber security blogger Brian Krebs reported that Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer disclosed that hackers ...

Staples: 6-Month Malware Breach, 1.16 Million Cards

Dec 20, 2014 11:36:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Office supply chain Staples Inc. today finally acknowledged that a malware intrusion by hackers this year at some of its stores resulted in a credit card breach. The company now says some ...

Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

Nov 7, 2014 8:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...

Home Depot, Target Breaches Exploited Old WinXP Flaw

Sep 20, 2014 2:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The massive security breaches and theft of credit card information at The Home Depot and Target have something in common. They were both allowed by a vulnerability in XP embedded that was ...

Home Depot Hit By Same Russian Hackers As Target

Sep 13, 2014 3:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Right after the Target Hack, C-level execs at Home Depot Inc. put together a task force to prevent being the victim of a similar attack. The task force recommended to fully ...

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Uber Total Loss: 57 Million Records Stolen But Data Breach Was Hidden For A Year

Whole Foods Point Of Sale Data Breach. Did Amazon Buy An Organic Lemon?

Large Insurance Company Settles for $5.5 Million over "Failed To Patch" Data Breach

Data Breaches Are Up 29 Percent Over Last Year

Cleveland Medical Associates Ransomware Infection Caused 22K-Record Databreach - How To Prevent This

Urgent Phishing Alert: Warn Your Users Against AdultFriendFinder Scams Now

Scam Of The Week: FBI Warns Against Data Breach Extortion

Scam Of The Week: LinkedIn Email Change Your Password

What Is The #1 Cause Of Healthcare Data Breaches?

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Medstar Washington Hospital

What is the REAL cost of a data breach?

Half Of Your Users Are Now Spear Phishing Targets

Stop The AshMad Insanity!

Phishing Alert: Warn Your Users Against Ashley Madison Scams Now

SHOCKER: Data Breaches Cost Big Companies Very Little

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem 80 million records

Staples: 6-Month Malware Breach, 1.16 Million Cards

Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

Home Depot, Target Breaches Exploited Old WinXP Flaw

Home Depot Hit By Same Russian Hackers As Target

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