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140% YOY growth: 37 billion data breach records leaked in 2020
According to data analysed by the Atlas VPN team based on the 2020 Year End Data Breach QuickView Report by Risk Based Security, the number of leaked data records worldwide hit a... more
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EasyJet admits data breach via cyber-attack
EasyJet has revealed that the personal information of 9 million customers was accessed in what the low-cost airline is describing as a “highly sophisticated” cyber-attack. The company announced that email... more
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Fresh Marriott International data breach puts 5.2 million at risk
Marriott International has sadly had to admit that it has suffered a second data breach following the earlier admission in 2018. According to an incident notification published on their website, the company spotted... more
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Equifax data breach settlement set at $1.38 billion
Equifax’s failure to patch a known web application security flaw—that later proved to be the root cause of the its massive data breach in 2017—is $1.38 billion. Equifax has agreed... more
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Cost of a data breach study – Global overview
IBM Security and Ponemon Institute have released the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview. This year it conducted interviews with more than 2,200 IT, data protection, and compliance... more
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