Data Breaches Increased by Nearly 20 Percent in 2019 Washington State has released a new report on data breaches. The report may not be on a national or international scale, but it provides an interesting bit of data that can give us insight on what’s happening with our personal information. Attorney General Bob Ferguson released…
Do Big Fines Prevent Data Leaks? You’ve seen the big headlines – one company after another leaks personal information and then is fined by the government. But this begs the questions, do the fines and punishments actually result in any improvements? British Airways was hit with a $230 million fine by United Kingdom regulators for…
Attack on InfoTrax Every day new attacks are launched on large servers. Hackers have automated hacking into a zombie-like phenomenon where computers slave away in order to obtain your personal data. Hackers span the globe and catching them sometimes simply can’t be done, even if they do a sloppy job and get found out. InfoTrax…
Voting Machines Are Full of Personal Information When you register to vote, your personal information is stored in various locations. Once that information is logged and saved, it’s out of your hands. You’ll find it impossible to check if various levels of government are handling your personal information correctly. Who will punish the government, when…
Information on Data Breach Data breaches happen all the time. 2019 seems to have been a year for data breaches, with many going on during the summer months, including the start of fall in September. Quite a few doctor’s offices were hit, along with various other businesses. However, one place that many people use for…
More Than 4 Billion Records Exposed in 2019 The year isn’t even over yet, but a company called Risk Based Security has published a report detailing the damage done so far in 2019. According to Forbes and Risk Based Security, the first six months of 2019 have seen more than 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches exposing…
The 3 Biggest Data Breaches Data breaches can happen to anyone, any time. How a company responds to these breaches is important for its customers’ privacy and the company’s reputation. What are some of the world’s biggest data breaches? Yahoo, Equifax, and Uber. What happened? Yahoo Yahoo had some data breaches in 2013 and 2014…
Ransomware Attack At Hospital in Wyoming No one is safe from data breaches, not even hospitals. A ransomware attack at the Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyoming happened last Friday morning. This small-town trauma hospital had to send its patients more than 125 miles away from town to another hospital so they could be…
What Is A Data Breach? Data breaches happen all the time, but what exactly are they? When someone exposes confidential and protected personal information to outside sources, this is called a data breach. Data breaches can happen due to a cybercriminal hacking a database or because the company’s database was not secured, or someone from…
Yahoo Data Breach In 2016, there was a confirmation from Yahoo that their company experienced a huge data breach. This breach affected 3 billion accounts and included names, security questions, and passwords. Yes, you read that right, hackers got important information from Yahoo customers, and billions of people were affected. This was one of the…