Adobe Creative Cloud database exposed over 7 million user records
Security researchers discovered an unsecured Adobe Creative Cloud Elasticsearch database that exposed nearly 7.5 million user records.
Biometric records of 1M users exposed in massive data breach
Biometric records on 1 million users have been exposed in a massive data breach of publicly exposed database. The records include fingerprints, facial recognition data, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and employee personal data.
Capital One data breach
Capital One announced on Monday night it was a victim of data breach that impacted 100 million individuals in the United States and close to 6 million in Canada.
Louisiana declares state of emergency after ransomware attack
Governor Edwards of Louisiana has declared a state of emergency after three of its school districts were hit with ransomware attacks.
Equifax data breach settlement
Equifax Inc. has agreed to sign a settlement with the FTC to pay at least $575 million, and potentially up to $700 million, related to the massive data breach in 2017 that impacted nearly 147 million people.
Slack resets passwords exposed in 2015 breach
Slack has reset passwords for close to 1% of overall Slack accounts in response to new information learned from 2015 security breach.
British Airways to get fined $230M for data breach
British regulators announced intentions to fine British Airways $230 million (£183m) for a data breach that impacted close to 500,000 customers.
Former Equifax executive goes to prison for insider trading
A former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Equifax had been sentenced to federal prison for insider trading.
Quest Diagnostics data breach impacts 11.9 million patients
Quest Diagnostics has confirmed an unauthorized user gained access to a third party billing service system to potentially access personal data on nearly 12 million patients.
Flipboard confirms data breach, resets passwords
News aggregator Flipboard warned that an unauthorized person gained access to subset of user account data and cryptographically protected passwords.