Data Leak

A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment. Other terms for this phenomenon include unintentional information disclosure, data leak, information leakage and also data spill.

Rubrik Exposes Customer Data, May Face GDPR Fines
Rubrik Exposes Customer Data, May Face GDPR Fines
January 30, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management company, has suffered a massive data leak. The company pulled the server offline on Tuesday (Jan. 29)...

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Ascension Leak Of 24M+ Loan Data Is Reexposed
Ascension Leak Of 24M+ Loan Data Is Reexposed
January 25, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Ascension’s data leak has gotten worse, with original loan and mortgage documents exposed again online. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Ascension had suffered a...

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Two-Sided Markets Sizzle, Swipe Fees Fizzle And Exactis Leaks A Lot Of Data
Two-Sided Markets Sizzle, Swipe Fees Fizzle And Exactis Leaks A Lot Of Data
June 29, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Fizzle of the Week: Exactis “Records are made to be broken.” That famous quote has been assigned, in some variation, to Richard Branson, Michael Phelps,...

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Exactis Exposes Non-Financial Data On Close To 340M Americans
Exactis Exposes Non-Financial Data On Close To 340M Americans
June 28, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Exactis, the marketing and data aggregation firm, was the subject of a data breach in which customer information ended up on the Internet for hackers...

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Panera Leaves Customer Data Exposed Online For Months
Panera Leaves Customer Data Exposed Online For Months
April 03, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Panera revealed the data of millions of customers for eight months or more before removing it from the bakery restaurant’s website Monday (April 2), reported...

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Nearly 123 Million American Households’ Data Exposed In Massive Leak
Nearly 123 Million American Households’ Data Exposed In Massive Leak
December 20, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Over 123 million American households — a figure which represents nearly all of them — have likely had at least some data about them leak...

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Essential Admits To Accidental Leak Of Customer Data
Essential Admits To Accidental Leak Of Customer Data
August 31, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Ooops. If one needed a single word description for the difficulties facing Essential — a small smartphone maker facing a large data privacy kerfuffle —...

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Web Host Data Breach Cost 13M Users Their Passwords
Web Host Data Breach Cost 13M Users Their Passwords
October 29, 2015  |  International

The usernames and passwords of millions of users of Lithuanian web hosting company 000webhost may have been compromised as the result of a recent data...

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