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We focus on the latest news surrounding data breaches, leaks and hacks plus daily internet security articles.
We focus on the latest news surrounding data breaches, leaks and hacks plus daily internet security articles.
Healthcare data breaches continue to rise
Whilst an overwhelming amount of data breaches occur due to human error – like sending an email to the wrong recipient, or failing to hide multiple recipients’ identities from each other – ransomware of healthcare records are on a rapid climb.
In a report conducted by the Breach Industry Forecast, patient data is one of the most valuable types of information to cyber criminals. Hospitals and other healthcare organisations usually keep masses of patient data in digital databases, and these are far from secure it seems.
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Following on from the several big recent hacking scandals where million of users’ personal details have been compromised, Guardian Soulmates – a dating service provided by The Guardian newspaper – are the latest victim of a cyber-hack.
Users of the dating website reportedly received sexually explicit emails following on from the hack. Soulmates usernames and email addresses were exposed by an unknown third-party service provider, according to Guardian News and Media (GNM).
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A recent hack saw thousands of Debenhams Flowers customer details compromised.
The hack was targeted at the staple retailer’s flowers website, but their primary website Debenhams.com is not thought to be affected.
Debenhams has reportedly notified affected customers, and issued a statement:
“Debenhams has taken immediate steps to minimise risk to customers affected and made contact with all those customers whose data has been accessed.”
According to recent figures, 1 in 8 people have suffered a healthcare data breach.
This is very worrying as healthcare data can be very private and sensitive information, and it can also be a goldmine for cyber-criminals.
Off the back of Friday’s monumental ransomware attack that hit almost one hundred countries around the world, and brought the NHS to an almost standstill, this is very worrying news.
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Three’s recent data breaches have caused a rippling effect for many customers.
The newest of the breaches caused some customers to be without texting and telephone functions on 22nd April 2017, and also led to some texts going to totally random people rather than the intended recipients.
We have already taken cases on where personal text messages ended up in the inbox of someone totally random, and social media was filled with complaining customers asking for explanations.
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The Police Federation’s head of misconduct has revealed that a large number of the police force are “persistently” committing data breaches.
Fears have arisen that the police force are using technologies like the Police National Computer (PNC) and the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) “for non-work related reasons”, according to the Police Federation.
And it’s happening all the time.
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Numerous security experts have noted that data breaches at the Financial Times Stock Exchange’s (FTSE) 100 firms have cost approximately £120 million in market value.
£120 million isn’t really loose change that organisations and firms should disregard; it should be a wake-up call!
According to the Breach Level Index, almost 1.4 billion data records were lost or stolen in 2016. The statistics showed an 86% increase from the previous year. The Breach Level Index notes that:
“…more and more organisations are accepting the fact that, despite their best efforts, security breaches are unavoidable.”
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) originally believed that 12 of their properties were compromised from the data breach, but it now transpires that approximately 1,200 IHG hotels are affected.
On the 19th April 2017, IHG released new information in regards to the data breach. The information shows that the cyber-attack’s consequences were far worse than originally thought.
The data breach led to the theft of hotel guests credit card information.
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The Metropolitan Police are being questioned for potentially breaching the personal data of approximately 30,000 firearm owners.
It transpires that the London Metropolitan Police have reportedly disclosed the names and addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners (around 5,000 rifle owners and 25,000 shotgun owners) to a direct mail marketing agency, named Yes Direct Mail, which is said to be as part of an advertising campaign.
In the absence of specific permissions, any handover of information can be construed as a breach of data law.
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It’s almost impossible to avoid everyday news of another company being added to the long list of data breach perpetrators and here’s another one…
Parking app “RinGo” is the latest company to suffer a breach. The app supposedly removes the hassle of paying for parking, making it quick and easy without the need to queue.
After the company updated their app, hundreds of customers reportedly saw other people’s details when they tried to log into the app.
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