Data breach stories
Thirty percent of UK and Ireland board directors still rank cyber threats as a top risk, with healthcare concern rising, survey data showed.
Travel customers could face phishing scams after Booking.com found suspicious activity may have exposed names, contact details and reservation data.
Growing fears over harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks are driving demand for quantum-safe controls as data moves to edge systems and cloud services.
Weak identity controls are now driving most attacks on Australian organisations, with breaches hitting revenue, customers and supply chains.
Many SMEs face repeat disruption after paying ransomware gangs, with insurers warning that restored access often still means costly system rebuilds.
New research shows two-thirds of Australian business and IT leaders feel pressured to approve AI projects while overlooking security risks.
Security teams will soon be able to track sensitive information in vector databases as Commvault extends AI risk controls beyond unstructured data.
Businesses with public-facing IP addresses are under constant threat as a new tracker shows 71,793 automated attack attempts in 24 hours.
SMEs are demanding clearer incident response as cyber attacks rise, boosting Talion’s case for a model built around decision-making over alerts.
Customer data and service security may be at risk, as nearly one in five UK telecom web servers leak configuration details, a study finds.
Australian security teams are under pressure to prioritise fixes as attacks surge and exploited vulnerabilities can now be used within five days.
Tens of thousands of dollars in disputed payments have left a Sydney skincare business exposed as household budgets tighten and chargeback fraud rises.
Lost or mishandled paper records have triggered 11,141 UK data breaches since 2020, with employee details among thousands of cases.
Managed AI tools are gaining ground in finance, yet regulated data still drives most policy breaches as staff mix personal and corporate accounts.
The expanded tie-up gives Collingwood extra protection for member and supporter data as cyber threats intensify across Australian sport.
Email fraud is still slipping through Australian firms as front-line staff prove better than managers at spotting scams, a CommBank survey found.
Fraud is eroding trust in digital services, with 56% of Australians saying they have already suffered online scams or identity theft.
Higher complaint volumes are adding regulatory and reputational pressure on UK firms handling sensitive customer data, especially in finance and health.
The appointment signals Halcyon’s push to bolster customer defences as ransomware drives operational disruption, extortion and revenue losses.
Australian organisations face fresh risk of cloud and identity compromise as the cyber watchdog reissues its alert on repository attacks.
