California proposed legislation if passed, would set stricter guidelines for when companies need to inform customers of a data breach. Attorney General Xavier Becerra and State Assembly member Marc Levine…
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Data breaches have become very common, a data breach is no longer news- you may say! Yes, this is true, to a very great extent. But, let’s look at the…
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500px, the popular photography app has forced all its users to reset their user passwords in a deliberate attempt to secure the remaining areas of their database. The leak included…
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Power utilities are not safe against cybercriminals, this is the fact that has been proven by Eskom (Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie), a power utility in South Africa. Their database was leaked online, causing…
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A security breach has impacted the POS (Point of Sale) system at Huddle House, the U.S-based casual dining and fast food restaurant chain. An official breach announcement dated February 1,…
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After 3 years of hearing, a U.S. judge has denied Yahoo’s planned settlement in connection with the Yahoo email’s data breach from 2013 to 2016. It was dubbed the biggest…
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A data breach that hit Airbus has reportedly employees of the aircraft manufacturing company. European aerospace corporation Airbus has disclosed that a security breach, which led to unauthorized access to…
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January 2019 does not lack any grand scale cybersecurity news, the year just got started and we’re hearing data breaches, virus infections, and stolen data issues regularly as we reported…
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Late last year, we have featured here in Hackercombat.com the story about Marriot International Hotel chain data breach and the resulting accusation against China allegedly being the one behind the…
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We are only starting the second week of 2019, but Australia’s government already experienced its first data breach of the year. Around 30,000 personal information of government staff working for…
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