Seventy Percent of Customers Say They’ll Bail after a Breach - but is it True?

A survey of consumers finds hardened attitudes about data breaches, with 7 in 10 saying they would stop doing business with a company that lost their data.

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Supreme Court Could Decide Question of “Harm” in Data Breaches

A case related to breaches at the firm CareFirst could see the U.S.’s top court weighing in on the legal question of whether having your data stolen constitutes “harm” to individuals.

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Game of Pwns: Breach Notices Suggest Few Victims in HBO Hack

Statements mailed to state attorneys general suggest the breach - which saw episodes of Game of Thrones released early - affected a small number of people, not HBO’s millions of subscribers.

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Hilton Was Fined $700K for a Data Breach. Under GDPR It Would Be $420M

Consider $2 per lost record versus $1,200 per lost record. That’s the difference between what Hilton will pay to New York State versus what it will pay to EU regulators once the GDPR takes effect in May.

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New Revelations and Website Weirdness Push Equifax from Bad to Worse

Driver’s license data on millions may have been stolen, while many more Brits were affected.

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Do Dark Markets Drive Data Breaches?

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein claims that dark markets drive breaches. It’s an interesting idea - but also a dangerous one, and wrong.

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Deloitte Hack Underscores Risk of Credential Leaks

The exact circumstances of the hack of Big 4 accounting firm Deloitte aren’t known, but evidence suggests the company was among many that fail to prevent leaks of sensitive data to cloud-based platforms like GitHub.

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Equifax Breach Could Have Far-Reaching Effects

The Equifax data breach—one of the largest breaches ever made public—has the potential to be the catalyst for a major change in the way that courts look at the damage that data breaches cause to victims.

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Equifax Hacked Via Six Month Old Struts Vulnerability

Equifax confirmed that a vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, patched in March, was used to hack into the firm and steal data on 143 million individuals. Is that the whole story?

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The Data Breach (Amazon) Bucket List

The leak of data on U.S. veterans this week is just the latest to be tied back to insecure cloud-based storage. What’s going on? Let’s take a look.

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