Law Firm Hacks Underscore Third Party Risk
The FBI is investigating attacks on prominent law firms, apparently aimed at stealing sensitive data related to business deals, underscoring the risk of third party data breaches.
The FBI is investigating attacks on prominent law firms, apparently aimed at stealing sensitive data related to business deals, underscoring the risk of third party data breaches.
Less than two years after it disclosed a massive breach of its payment system, Home Depot agreed to pay out more than $19 million to settle a class action suit, citing a need to ‘move on.’
Data breaches via third parties are a growing problem impacting companies across many industries – and one that can be even more difficult to defend against. How can companies secure their assets against cyber attacks that target suppliers and partners or use information stolen in previous breaches?
The legal wrangling over whether data breaches cause harm to consumers continued this week, with a District Court ruling in a case involving health insurer Anthem.
There’s a lot of debate about how much data breaches and hacks cost companies – except when there’s not, as with the hack of UK firm TalkTalk, which put the cost at around $88 million.
Here’s a look back at the top ten biggest data breaches in 2015.
A federal judge throws out a lawsuit against the craft store Michaels after plaintiffs fail to prove that any damages occurred as a result of the leak.
Call it a 21st century whodunnit. A researcher discovers leaked data identifying 190 million registered voters. The question: whose data is it?
A report from Verizon finds that leaks of protected health information are epidemic, as more, different types of organizations are called on to track and store health data.
A report from Accenture warns that the total cost of cyber attacks on U.S. health systems could total $305 billion over the next five years.