Data Breach

Data breach roundtable | The bigger they are, the harder they fall

The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses the recent data breach of US mobile network operator company, T-Mobile – being the third-largest US wireless carrier, how will they take the correct steps to both secure its systems and contain the fallout? Over 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a “highly sophisticated […]

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Cyber-attack roundtable | Decrypting the ‘secret sauce’

The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses this week’s cyber attack on McDonald’s – how has the world’s largest burger chain responded? Fast-food giant, McDonald’s has been hit by a cyber-attack this week, accessing a ‘small number’ of files on customers in the US, South Korea and Taiwan. The burger chain said last

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Ransomware roundtable | ‘The numbers don’t lie…’

The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) and how the most common forms of cyber attacks have affected the international security landscape during the global pandemic. This year’s Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report saw 5,258 breaches from 83 contributors across the globe, a third more

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Data breach roundtable | Playing from the same music sheet

The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses the recent data breach of musical instrument marketplace, Reverb – is this another classic example of a simply misconfigured system? Reverb, the musical instrument marketplace, has suffered a recent data breach after an unsecured data base containing customer information was exposed online. The online market, dedicated

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Data breach roundtable | LinkedIn shadows Facebook’s error

Earlier this week, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. Now, there is news of another huge data leak involving LinkedIn with 500 million users’ data being compromised, according to reports. Information that has been leaked includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links

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Data breach roundtable | Vulnerability calls for Accountability

A new data forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. The exposed data, published on 3rd April, includes the personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from over 100 countries, including 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the

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Reserve Bank of New Zealand suffers data breach

A third-party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua to share and store some sensitive information, has been illegally accessed. Governor Adrian Orr stated that the breach has been contained, but that it would take time to determine the impact. “We are actively working with domestic and

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Bitesize | The Aspen Pointe data breach, with Robert Meyers of One Identity

It was reported that the nonprofit US healthcare provider AspenPointe has notified patients of a data breach. In a media statement AspenPointe said they discovered unauthorised access to their network in September 2020. The patients affected number over 295K.  Robert Meyers, channel solutions architect and fellow of information privacy at One Identity discusses the situation.

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