Following close on the heels of the major Sony hack that exposed millions of accounts to criminals, LastPass notified its subscribers of a major hack on their service, exposing about one and a quarter accounts to these cyber criminals.
Sony yesterday reported a second security breach by hackers, who may have stolen personal information about 24.6 million users, according to news services.
A New York Yankees ticket rep apparently sent out an email blast that included a spreadsheet containing the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of 20,000 season ticket accounts, according to a report in DeadSpin.com, a sports website.
Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, says a Reuters report.
The number of compromised data records in computer security breaches declined last year as thieves shifted their sights to smaller, non-financial businesses, according to a report by Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ).
The personal information of about 3.5 million Texans - including addresses and Social Security numbers - was mistakenly posted on public servers controlled by the state comptroller's office and remained there in some cases for more than a year.
Customers of TiVo Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Walgreen Co. and a number of other major brands were warned over the weekend that hackers may have their e-mail addresses and some other personal information, thanks to a massive data breach at Epsilon.
The cost of a data breach? $214 per compromised record and averaged $7.2 million per data breach event, says the Ponemon's U.S. Cost of a Data Breach report.