$700m to be paid by credit score agency Equifax as part of a settlement for data breach in 2017. The breach is known to expose data of at least 147 million people. It is FTC’s largest data-breach settlement, much above the uber penalty of $148m. (Free Demo) Discover Your Attack Surface… Read More »Equifax To Pay $700m As Data Breach Settlement
Why It Happened ? Marriott faces a fine of $124 million proposed by UK regulators under the EU’s new privacy rules. Before being discovered, the breach persisted for 4 years, dated back to 2014 but was not discovered until November 2018. Marriott said the long-running breach exposed such information as… Read More »Marriott Hacked : Why It Happened & What Can You Learn?
$230m fine proposed as penalty to British Airways from the Information Commissioner’s Office for the data breach that is believed to have affected thousands of their customers between April and June 2018. The breach was disclosed in September. Why It Happened ? This attack involved user traffic from British Airways website… Read More »British Airways Hacked : Why It Happened & What Can You Learn?
(NASA Hacked) On 21 June, 2019 major news channels disclosed a major hack on NASA. Hackers were able to gain unauthorized access using Raspberry Pi and stole ‘Mars Mission Data’ and breached ‘NASA’s satellite dish network’. This happened around April 2018 and went unnoticed for for almost a year. It… Read More »NASA Hacked : Why It Happened & What Can You Learn?
In recent past there have been some major breaches and some key reasons responsible for the breach were Shadow IT, Leaked Credentials, 3rd Party/Vendor Risks. Major breaches like American Express, Uber, Dropbox, Dunkin Donuts, British Airways & many more. This research was in line with this to continuosly monitor the web (surface,deep,dark) to… Read More »Shocking Results From Hidden Internet – Exposed Database,Leaked Passwords, Code Leaks & more