Articles Tagged with ''data breach''

European businesses that provide critical infrastructure services, including banks, stock exchanges, telecommunications firms and utilities, may soon be required to disclose any data breaches to authorities.

The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.

94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have suffered at least one data breach in the last year, according to the Ponemon report.

Free mobile applications often come with unusual permissions that can put users' data at risk, such as outgoing calling, camera access and SMS capabilities.

Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.

Most cyber security incidents often go unreported or undetected even though they can affect millions of citizens and businesses worldwide. 

A data breach originating in an email with a malicious attachment has affected 8,000 people through the EPA.

The hacking group responsible for the leak calls it a wake-up call, not a threat against Yahoo.