Data Security

Saks Fifth Avenue reportedly exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of customers in plain text on publically accessible pages.

Wishbone, a mobile app that is especially popular with teenage girls, suffered a data breach in August 2016 that compromised 9.4 million records, 2.2 million of which were registered with unique email addresses.

The Association of British Travel Agents has suffered a data breach affecting approximately 43,000 individuals after an unauthorized intruder exploited a vulnerability in a third-party web server, the trade organization acknowledged.

In a manner that is becoming too familiar, hackers have once again broken into the iCloud accounts of female celebrities.

More than half of the internet traffic is already HTTPS encrypted for the sake of higher security. However, the encrypted traffic is used by cyber-criminals as well to hide their malicious activities from detection.

The majority of people don’t even know every place their personal information has been provided or acquired, and it’s this quagmire that keeps privacy officers up at night.

So far this year, there have been 312 data breaches as of March 14, 2017, which have compromised a combined total of more than 1.3 million records.