Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested

Another week, another massive data breach.

Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the Uni… Continue reading Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested

Over 92 Million New Accounts Up for Sale from More Unreported Breaches

All these numbers….

“More than 5 billion records from 6,500 data breaches were exposed in 2018” — a report from Risk Based Security says.

“More than 59,000 data breaches have been reported across the European since the GDPR came into force in 2018” —… Continue reading Over 92 Million New Accounts Up for Sale from More Unreported Breaches

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many “high-profile” users.

The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified… Continue reading Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users