Articles Tagged with ''personally identifiable information (PII)''

Canyon Bicycles GmbH recently announced that its online business was targeted by a cyberattack. 

A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access. 

Genius, an Android app-based cash register built by French postal service La Poste, leaked more than 23 million records. 

Just in 2018, there were 500 million personal records stolen. How many records will be stolen by year’s end? According to the RiskBased Data Breach QuickView Report 2019 Q3, at the end of September, there were 5,183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records. Compared to the 2018 Q3 report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3 percent and the total number of records exposed more than doubled, up 112 percent.