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$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 Now Why It Happened ?… 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 names, email addresses, phone numbers,… 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 being diverted to a fraudulent… 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 is advisable to do an… Read More »NASA Hacked : Why It Happened & What Can You Learn?