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.

Swiss Prosecutors Looking Into 2022 Credit Suisse Data Leak

Swiss Prosecutors Looking Into 2022 Credit Suisse Data Leak
Swiss Prosecutors Looking Into 2022 Credit Suisse Data Leak
February 03, 2023  |  Cybersecurity

Switzerland aims to identify and prosecute those behind a 2022 Credit Suisse data leak. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Toyota Apologizes For Breach of User Info
Toyota Apologizes For Breach of User Info
October 07, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

The world’s biggest carmaker on Friday (Oct. 7) apologized for a breach apparently caused by a third-party vendor that is thought to have leaked close...

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Data Leak At Alibaba’s Shopping Site Taobao Exposed Billion Bits Of User Info
Data Leak At Alibaba’s Shopping Site Taobao Exposed Billion Bits Of User Info
June 15, 2021  |  Data & Research

A Chinese software developer used web-crawling software to scrape 1.1 billion pieces of data from Alibaba’s Taobao shopping platform, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...

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Wyze Smart Device Co Leaks 2.4M Customers’ Data
Wyze Smart Device Co Leaks 2.4M Customers’ Data
December 29, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Internet of Things (IoT) vendor Wyze announced a server leak that exposed the data of 2.4 million customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 24. The...

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Facebook Mistakenly Leaked User Info To Developers
Facebook Mistakenly Leaked User Info To Developers
November 05, 2019  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook has revealed that it unknowingly gave outside developers access to some private user information. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Russia’s Sberbank Investigating Potential Client Data Leak
Russia’s Sberbank Investigating Potential Client Data Leak
October 04, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Russia’s Sberbank has been the victim of a client data leak. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
May 31, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

A cybersecurity research team at vpnMentor has discovered that The Pyramid Hotel Group, which manages Marriott and other hotel brands, underwent a data leak exposing...

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Samsung Internal Coding Projects Leaked Data
Samsung Internal Coding Projects Leaked Data
May 08, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Dozens of internal coding projects being worked on by Samsung engineers were reportedly leaking source code, credentials and keys because of a lack of security....

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