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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.
One of the worst cyber-attacks this year!
The U.K. was subject to a horrific mass cyber-attack in May 2017 that ground several health providers to a halt.
Chaos and frenzied panic set in when GP surgeries and hospital screens were locked with a ransom demand. Hackers had managed to infiltrate network systems with malicious ransomware, preventing access to records unless the user paid $300 (£240) worth of Bitcoins into a provided account.
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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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Owners of Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza suffer huge cyber attack
The giant hoteliers InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) have issued their worrisome findings after conducting an internal investigation into their hotels.
The huge company – owners of popular hotel chains Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza – began their investigation when malicious software was detected on their front desk systems late last year. Whilst the breach into their systems were detected as early as 29 September 2016, traces of the malware is suspected to have remained until March of this year.
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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.”
The NHS are being held to ransom after a huge cyber-attack has thrown IT and phone systems in to chaos.
As the networking system has been crippled by malicious software, huge amounts of IT systems have been shut down to prevent further damage, seriously impacting the level of care the NHS can provide.
Cyber criminals are reportedly holding the network systems hostage for an undisclosed sum while watching the nation’s health service struggle to cope. Physicians are understood to be using pen and paper to made medical notes, and real lives are in real danger.
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Top digital security provider Gemalto released a Breach Level Index (BLI) report on cyber-attacks and compromised data records in 2016. They found a total of 1,792 data breaches last year alone, leading to around 1.378 billion data records being illegally accessed.
Since 2013, over 7 billion data records have reportedly been stolen across the globe. And these are just the ones that have been reported. To break this number down, this equals to:
A new study finds that teaching hospitals are more likely to suffer from data leaks.
In a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers found that larger health care providers and teaching hospitals are more likely to have data breaches. At the John Hopkins Carey Business School, Assistant Professor Ge Bai identified that around 1,800 data breaches were reported in the last 7 years, and he found that, the larger the hospital, the more data breaches occur.
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A school examining board has recently fallen victim to a mass data breach, compromising approximately 64,000 current and former examiners’ personal information.
AQA’s online systems were reportedly hacked on the 21st March 2017. These online systems stored examiners’ name, addresses, personal phone numbers, and passwords. The examining board were quick to stress that the attacked systems didn’t store any financial details or any personal data of the schools, pupils or exam material.
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Regulators have identified that up to 100,000 student loan applicants could have had their personal information stolen by hackers.
This comes after a “data retrieval tool” that allowed applicants to upload their tax information to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which was hacked by criminals. John Koskinen, head Commissioner for the IRS, has been investigating the ways in which the breach could have happened.
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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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EasyJet admits data of nine million hacked
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