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
February 03, 2023  |  Security & Fraud

Switzerland aims to identify and prosecute those behind a 2022 Credit Suisse data leak. Reuters reported Friday (Feb. 3) that the country’s federal prosecutors have launched criminal proceedings and...

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Toyota Apologizes For Breach of User Info
Toyota Apologizes For Breach of User Info
October 07, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

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

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  |  Security & Fraud

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

Facebook has revealed that it unknowingly gave outside developers access to some private user information. The social media giant explained that since April 2018, it...

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Russia’s Sberbank Investigating Potential Client Data Leak
Russia’s Sberbank Investigating Potential Client Data Leak
October 04, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Russia’s Sberbank has been the victim of a client data leak. The country’s biggest lender revealed that it is investigating the potential leak, which could...

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Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
Data Leak Discovered In Marriott’s Management Company
May 31, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

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  |  Security & Fraud

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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Millions Of Americans Could Have Data Leaked Via Exposed Database
Millions Of Americans Could Have Data Leaked Via Exposed Database
April 30, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Security experts have discovered an online, unprotected database that stores the personal data of 80 million American households. Not only does the data on the...

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