Data breach hits San Antonio Symphony employees
“The San Antonio Symphony, shown in rehearsal, has suffered a data breach of personnel records of the musicians and staff, the organization said Tuesday. Computer hackers broke into the computer network for the San Antonio Symphony this week, stealing the names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses and W-2 tax forms for about 250 employees, […]
Data Breaches of eCommerce Retailers Cost $172 Per Record
“If your small business hasn’t been “hacked,” it can be difficult to quantify the potential impact of cyber crime. True the impact of a cyber-crime committed against your small business can range from simply annoying to potentially crippling. But in the end, the question remains whether a way exists to measure that impact in dollars […]
Data breaches becoming more complex, pervasive and damaging, finds Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Digest
“Data breaches are becoming more complex and are no longer confined to just the IT department, but are now affecting every department within an organization. Each breach leaves a lingering, if not lasting imprint on an enterprise, finds the 2017 Data Breach Digest. As we found in the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), […]
Most US firms would pay to avoid data breach shame going public
“The majority of US businesses admit they would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars rather than deal with the aftermath of a data breach going public. According to new research from Bitdefender, two-thirds of 250 IT decision makers at enterprise firms say their companies would pay $124,000 to avoid public shaming after a data breach, […]
20,000+ tribal members warned of data breach
“A Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman says more than 20,000 members of two Montana American Indian tribes were notified of a potential data breach involving their personal information. BIA Spokeswoman Nedra Darling says an external hard drive with details on tribal members was stolen last month from an agency law enforcement vehicle in Big Horn […]
Security breach steals tax info for all Bloomington public school employees
“Personal information for 2,800 current and former Bloomington public school employees was stolen in an e-mail phishing scam, school district officials said. The school district is investigating the security breach, in which the 2016 federal W-2 tax forms of all employees were released. School district employees were informed of the scam on Friday. The information […]
Hackers break into Polish banks through government regulator charged with bank security standards
“Polish banks have spent the last week searching for hackers who broke into several of the country’s financial institutions in an incident that looks to be three months old, according to Polish media. The malware infection appears to have come through — of all things — compromised servers at the Polish financial regulator KNF, which […]
Victims of W-2 phishing scams (2017 list)
“When someone appearing to be your boss emails you and says they urgently need you to send them employees’ W-2 information from 2016, what do you do? Well, if you haven’t been trained properly or reminded often enough – or if your employer doesn’t have safeguards in place that might prevent you from just sending […]
Online Security Survey: Six in Ten Americans are Data Breach Victims
“A large majority of Americans have been victims of one form of data theft or fraud or another, according to Pew Research Center’s latest online security survey. Americans not only are concerned about online threats from cybercriminals, they’re concerned about unauthorized surveillance and us by corporations and government. In addition, a substantial share believe their […]
Kaspersky Lab’s top investigator reportedly arrested in treason probe
“In a move that stunned some security researchers, a top investigator at Russia’s largest antivirus provider, Kaspersky Lab, has been arrested in an investigation into treason, a crime that upon conviction can carry severe sentences. Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of Kaspersky Lab’s investigations unit, was arrested in December, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Wednesday. The paper […]