Then on Sunday, it appears that some stores were only able to accept cash for about 90 minutes, with the company’s payment processing system suffering a second outage. While the company did their best to fix the situation, customers reported long lines, with many simply giving up and leaving. Target hasn’t said what caused either …
The UK charity for transgender and gender non-conforming children and their families has apologised for a historical data breach that meant private internal emails from 2016 and 2017 were accessible online. “We are sorry,” Mermaids said in an online statement on Sunday (June 16). “At the time of 2016-2017, Mermaids was a smaller but growing …
Only a handful of companies were 100% compliant when GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect on 25 May 2018. Companies spent whopping sums of money to meet the new GDPR compliance checklist, as non-compliance would mean the end of the business itself. It’s been a year since… Link: GDPR Data Breach Notifications hits …
First, the city of Baltimore was held hostage by cybercriminals. Now it’s Philadelphia’s turn. A computer virus has completely brought Philadelphia’s online court system to its knees since May 21, The Verge reports. Document filing systems, email servers, and the court’s website were taken down as a precautionary measure. Link: Malware Shut Down Philadelphia Court …
Philadelphia’s online court system has been down since May 21st as the result of a malware infection on “a limited number” of computers. Upon detecting the infection, authorities shut down the entire network to prevent further damage. The incident has fundamentally disrupted the court system.The… Link: A computer virus has thrown Philadelphia’s court system into …
Millions of private photographs leaked in Ricoh Theta360 data breach June 6, 2019 by John Aldred Leave a Comment vpnMentor reports that its research team discovered that Theta360’s photo-sharing platform has suffered something of a pretty major data breach. The leak, they say, has exposed at… Link: Millions of private photographs leaked in Ricoh Theta360 …
LabCorp, a medical testing company, recently suffered a massive data breach that affected around 7.7 million of its patients’ data. According to a filing with the U.Securities and Exchange Commission, LabCorp. said it discovered the breach at a third-party billing collections firm, the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), between August 2018, and March 30, 2019. …
One year later, the GDPR has swept many industries. How? The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) reports on the changes seen in just one year. . One in three (34 percent) people have high trust and confidence in companies and organisations storing and using their personal information – significantly up from the 21 percent stating this …
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Through every stage of an effective cyber breach response, planning and preparation is essential, according to the technology team at international law firm DAC Beachcroft. Participants at the London Tech Week workshop were asked to consider what they would do in the same situation and “help” the CEO of the online dating firm by registering …
