And this weekend arrived with quite serious bulletins around the crypto industry. An Israel based crypto exchange, Coinmama suffered a massive data breach. It has been revealed that about 450000 users were affected and their emails and hashed passwords were breached. Coinmama Suffered Data Breach A quick Reddit post and twitter handle explain that the […]

A lost computer drive by the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) between Wellington and Auckland earlier this month was potentially far more damaging than the ‘little risk of personal identity theft’ described by NZTA at the time, National’s Data and Cybersecurity spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “National has received documents which show the huge extent […]

Sensitive personal information could have been on a council’s website for 11 years, it has been claimed. Documents containing people’s names, addresses and medical conditions were publicly available on Ceredigion Council’s website on Thursday. The man who notified the council of the breach said he reported the same data on the council’s website in 2007. […]

UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions. The company appealed the […]

Heathrow Airport has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for “serious” data protection failings. It comes after a staff member lost a USB stick last October containing “sensitive personal data”, which was later found by a member of the public. Reports at the time claimed this included the Queen’s security and travel arrangements, […]

The hacked system was connected to the Healthcare.gov website, where the general public can sign up for healthcare coverage. Hackers have got access to personal data belonging to 75,000 people in a breach of government health insurance system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans in the US, […]

Background On 1 October 2018, the FCA fined Tesco Personal Finance plc (Tesco Bank) £16.4 million for failures relating to a cyber-attack. Over a 48-hour period in November 2016, cyber criminals stole £2.26 million from more than 8,000 of Tesco Bank’s 131,000 personal current account customers. The incident received significant press attention at the time. […]

The sales intelligence firm Apollo is the last victim of a massive data breach that exposed more than 200 million contact records. Apollo collects a lot of its information from public sources, including names, email addresses, and company contact information, it also gathers data by scraping Twitter and LinkedIn. The company already notified the security breach […]