Top 10 data breaches since 2008

Data breaches by the numbers


Heartland Payment Systems (2008-2009)              130 million records
Target Stores (2013)                                               110 million records
Sony online entertainment systems (2011)            102 million records
National Archive and Records Admin (2008)        76 million records
Anthem (2015)                                                        69-80 million records
Epsilon (2011)                                                        60-250 million records
Home Depot (2014)                                               56 million records
Living Social (2013)                                              50+ million records
TJX Companies (2006-2007)                                46+ million records
Sony Pictures Entertainment (2014)                     Company inner workings


Cyber crime - average cost - $8 million per company in 2015




To keep up-to-date on the latest breaches please view the following site:
http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach




US-CERT to Windows Users: Dump Apple Quicktime

 Apple has finally posted a support document online that explains QuickTime 7 for Windows is no longer supported by Apple. See the full advisory here.

Microsoft Windows users who still have Apple Quicktime installed should ditch the program now that Apple has stopped shipping security updates for it, warns the Department of Homeland Security‘s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The advice came just as researchers are reporting two new critical security holes in Quicktime that likely won’t be patched.

Over half a billion personal records were stolen or lost in 2015

Symantec Corporation released a report which stated that in 2015 many companies avoided disclosing the full details of their data breaches after researchers found that over 429 million records were lost or stolen and that data breaches grew by 85 percent compared to data breaches in 2014. In addition, the report stated that 75 percent of popular Web sites had major vulnerabilities; of which, 15 percent were considered as critical flaws.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/over-half-a-billion-personal-records-were-stolen-or-lost-in-2015as-502858.shtml