Sentences with phrase «say data breaches»

All you have to do is say data breach and just about anybody, anywhere, on the street corner, will know what you're talking about.

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Bradley Tusk says the news around Uber's data breach could have served as a reason for the low offer.

Obviously, there are things like the [data breach] lawsuit that I'm not at all privy to, but I will say that he has really good political instincts.

The SEC said Tuesday that Altaba's payment will settle allegations that the company, when it was known as Yahoo, failed to disclose to investors its knowledge of the huge 2014 data breach that exposed the personal data of over 500 million users.

More than half of health - care organizations surveyed by the company say the number of mobile device data breaches had increased over the past 12 months.

«There is not a universal rule that you should be held harmless in a data breach and there probably should be,» Edgar said.

«Although this would require cyber criminals to target individual cards and wouldn't result in large scale breaches or theft like we have seen in the U.S., the payment technology used won't protect against retailers who aren't storing payment card data securely, and they will still need to be vigilant in protecting stored data,» Candid Wüest, threat researcher at Symantec Security Response, said.

While the media glommed on to a few snafus — such as T - Mobile's Sidekick service losing subscribers» data when its cloud supplier's backup systems failed — it's not the number of breaches and failures (which is small) but what it says about providers» practices that is worrisome.

But as large companies shore up their security systems in response to high - profile data breaches, that means «the bad guys are moving down the food chain, where folks are not as prepared,» says Brian Casazza, CIO at Vistage, a training organization for small - and mid-sized businesses.

«I do think more issuers will move to the tokenization concept,» said Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com «The incredible number of data breaches in the last 12 months has played a part in this.

«Yahoo's failure to have controls and procedures in place to assess its cyber disclosure obligations ended up leaving its investors totally in the dark about a massive data breach,» Jina Choi, director of the SEC's San Francisco regional office, said in a statement.

Yahoo said Wednesday it had discovered a new breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than 1 billion accounts, double the number affected in a different breach disclosed in September.

Yahoo tripled its estimate for the number of accounts affected by an August 2013 data breach to a full 3 billion accounts, the entirety of those registered across Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo - owned properties at the time, the company said Tuesday.

In short, the Senator argued, Equifax has far more to gain from its data breach than it does to lose, with the average victim of a data breach receiving a payout of just $ 2 in restitution, she said.

Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliamentary committee investigating the data breach, said that the ICO and Electoral Commission must have unfettered access to Cambridge Analytica.

After the massive data breach at Equifax, many cybersecurity experts have advised consumers to freeze their credit.But that very measure could mean paying fees that go to none other than Equifax, said Senators Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii), in a series of tweets today.

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.

The current and former chief executives of credit bureau Equifax, which disclosed in September that a data breach affected as many as 145.5 million U.S. consumers, said they did not know who was responsible.

In October, Verizon's top lawyer Craig Silliman said the company has a «reasonable basis» to believe that Yahoo's earlier data breach of at least 500 million email accounts represents a material impact that could allow Verizon to withdraw from the merger.

«The idea here is that Okta's cloud - based platform is taking tons of market share from existing authentication platforms,» Cramer said, noting that some 81 percent of data breaches involve stolen or weak credentials.

The publication said that the researchers reported the data breach and spammers to law enforcement, but that the researchers «can not discuss those elements, because the agencies involved can not comment on pending or ongoing investigations.»

The company said that it investigated the data breach and has remedied the problem, which resulted in its computer systems going offline periodically over the past few days.

In February, Verizon (vz) said it would cut the price of its $ 4.5 billion acquisition bid for Yahoo by $ 350 million because of the data breaches and related aftermath.

The current and former chief executives of credit bureau Equifax, which disclosed in September that a data breach affected as many as 145.5 million U.S. consumers, said they did not know who was responsible for the attack.

The United States Postal Service is the latest victim in a long list of organizations to have recently experienced a data breach, saying it believes more than 800,000 employees» personal data — including Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses among other information — may have been compromised, the Washington Post reports.

«We're looking into some unusual activity that might indicate a possible payment data breach and we're working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,» the company said on its corporate website.

The firm said in the release that 145.5 million consumers might now potentially have been impacted by the data breach, 2.5 million more than previously estimated.

The fallout from Target's Black Friday hacking incident continues with the company saying 70 million people were affected by the data breach — a much larger figure than the 40 million initially repor...

In September, Equifax reported a massive data breach, saying hackers may have accessed the personal details, including names and Social Security numbers, of more than 143 million consumers from mid-May to July.

The company said the data was likely stolen through malware downloaded during phishing attacks or through breaches of other companies that store its customer information.

also said his committee intends to hold a hearing about the data breach at a later date, according to The Hill.

Equifax CEO Richard Smith previously apologized on Thursday for the data breach and said, «This is clearly a disappointing event for our company, and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do.»

German health - care group Fresenius said it had decided to pull out of its planned acquisition of Akorn after it found data integrity breaches at the U.S. generic drugmaker.

said Friday that his committee intends to hold a hearing on the historic data breach, which cybersecurity experts said dwarf other high - profile security incidents affecting companies like Yahoo (yhoo) and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

«After the Equifax data breach, we saw Congress talk a good game but fail to follow through on helping consumers,» Litt said.

«Obviously I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian,» T - Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said in a note to customers posted on the company's website.

The company says it has patched the data breach and added a two - factor authentication feature and a password kill switch to shore up users» accounts.

Akorn — German drugmaker Fresenius pulled out its $ 4.75 billion deal to buy the U.S. generic drugmaker, saying it had found «material breaches» of Food and Drug Administration data integrity requirements at Akorn.

Fresenius (FMS) pulled out its $ 4.75 billion deal to buy U.S. generic drug - maker Akorn (AKRX), saying it had found «material breaches» of FDA data integrity requirements at Akorn, which disputes those claims.

Mr. Zuckerberg has said the misuse of data represented a «breach of trust» by the company.

In fact, many experts now say that the Equifax data breach that took place on July 29th, 2017 may have impacted as many as 143 million consumers in the U.S..

Joyce said at a conference last month that U.S. officials were trying to persuade European regulators to allow a carve out in the law for security researchers to continue collecting data pertinent to data breaches or other cyber crime investigations.

Ensuring the safety and security of payment systems data is essential to reduce the risks from data breaches while maintaining a healthy pace of growth in digital payments, the RBI said.

The interview was one of several that Sandberg gave on Thursday explaining how the Cambridge Analytica breach took place and taking responsibility for the company's handling of users» data, which the company has said were «improperly shared.»

«Credit Karma can now alert you as soon as possible if you've been affected by a data breach and provide next steps you can consider to help secure your information,» said Adam Boender, product manager, in a blog post.

«As noted previously, the bureau is looking into Equifax's data breach and response,» the spokesperson said.

FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives said he believed Steinhafel, who will stay on in an advisory role for a while, is the first CEO to be removed following a major data breach.

While Dr. Adam Dissel says that news of headline - grabbing data breaches does scare him, he is confident that Cannata and CMIT Solutions keep a finger on the pulse of trends in the cybersecurity world — and keep his data is safe.

The Equifax data breach was even worse than initially feared, say Senate Democrats who accuse the CFPB for its lack of a «robust investigation» and plans to make its complaint database private.