Shares of Deckers Outdoor jumped as much as 14% to breach the $1,000 mark for the first time on Friday, as the footwear company posted upbeat fourth-quarter results, riding on the popularity of Ugg boots and Hoka sneakers among Americans. Hoka The company’s stock has been on a tear since the beginning of last year, [...]read moreHoka-owner Deckers’ shares breach $1,000 mark for the first time
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. But it should also serve as a wakeup call [...]read moreUnitedHealth data breach should be a wakeup call for the UK and NHS
U.S. health conglomerate Kaiser is notifying millions of its members of a data breach earlier this month. In a legally required notice filed with the U.S. government on April 12 but made public on Thursday, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan confirmed that 13.4 million residents had information taken in a data breach. The notice did [...]read moreHealth insurance giant Kaiser notifies millions of a data breach
Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the enormous growth of API usage — around half of all internet traffic — is putting businesses’ data at [...]read moreVorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach
AT&T has begun notifying U.S. state authorities and regulators of a security incident after confirming that millions of customer records posted online last month were authentic. In a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, the U.S. telco giant said it sent out letters notifying more than 51 million people that their personal information [...]read moreAT&T notifies regulators after customer data breach
India’s largest audio and wearables brand BoAt is investigating a possible data breach after hackers advertised a cache of alleged customer data online. A sample of alleged customer data was uploaded on a known cybercrime forum, which includes full names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses and order numbers. A portion of the data that [...]read moreIndian audio giant BoAt says it’s investigating suspected customer data breach
In a post on its official Facebook page on April 7, 2024, Touch ‘n Go eWallet said it would take legal action against Zahid Baharuddin after the Malaysian singer failed to cooperate in clarifying findings made by the company to his followers on social media. On March 31, Zahid posted a video on his Instagram [...]read moreTouch ‘n Go eWallet to take legal action over Zahid Baharuddin’s viral video claiming security breach
Death, taxes, and regular, terrifying cybersecurity leaks. Those are the facts of life, as the latest AT&T data breach is teaching us yet again. A TechCrunch investigation into leaked customer data from the American telco giant has led to AT&T resetting certain customer account passcodes to prevent them from being at risk. The root of [...]read moreWatch: AT&T data breach prompts millions of passcodes to be reset
AT&T has acknowledged that a data leak making the rounds online contains information from more than 7.6 million current customers and 65 million former customers. The company has reset the security passcodes of active customers affected, and says that leaked information “may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, [...]read moreAT&T confirms data breach and resets millions of customer passcodes
The U.K. government has blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of U.K. voters. In a statement to lawmakers in Parliament on Monday, U.K. deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden attributed the 2021 data breach at the Electoral Commission to hackers working for the Chinese government. Dowden told lawmakers that [...]read moreUK blames China for massive breach of voter data