A new 4IQ report found that 12,449 data breaches occurred in 2018, which is a staggering increase of 424% compared to the year before. However, the number of records exposed per breach was 4.7 times …
Experian: More Than a Third of Companies are Unprepared to Respond to a Data Breach
New research by Experian shows that companies are still falling short when it comes to cyber security disaster preparedness. The study found that just over one-third of business executives (36%) …
Why businesses fear cyberattacks from ex-employees more than nation states
According to a new AppRiver survey, 58% of cybersecurity decision makers at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are more concerned about their organization experiencing a data breach than about …
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Credit card details worth nearly $3.5 million put up for sale on hacking forum
In the past month, three large collections of stolen payment card data have been uploaded to a major underground marketplace. Two of the dumps involved data on 69,189 Pakistani payment cards, …
Hacker puts up for sale third round of hacked databases on the Dark Web
For the third time in a little over a week, a threat actor using the moniker 'Gnosticplayers' has put a large collection of stolen data from multiple companies for sale on the Dark Web. While the …
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Where’s the Equifax Data? Does It Matter?
According to a recent report by CNBC, the data on almost 150 million people that was compromised in the 2017 Equifax data breach has never been published or put for sale on the Dark Web, as usually …
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Collection of 127 Million Stolen Accounts Up for Sale on the Dark Web
A threat actor using the moniker "gnosticplayers" has put two large collections of stolen data for sale on a dark web marketplace this week. The first batch contained 620 million records that were …
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The year 2018 was the second most active year on record for data breaches, report says
According to a new report by Risk Based Security, 3.2% fewer data breaches took place in 2018 compared to the year before and the number of exposed records decreased 35.9%, from 7.9 billion in 2017 …
80 Percent of U.S. Businesses Expect a Critical Breach in 2019
A new study by Trend Micro and The Ponemon Institute indicates that IT business leaders consider cyberattacks among the biggest threats to their organizations. A whopping 8 out of 10 respondents in …
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Exposed Consumer Data Skyrocketed 126% in 2018
According to a new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), around 446.5 million sensitive consumer records were exposed in 2018. This is a 126% increase compared to 2017, when the number …
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