Category: data breach
LabCorp slapped with shareholder suit over data breaches
A LabCorp shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the laboratory giant, accusing its board of concealing details of two data breaches that affected millions of patients. The derivative suit, filed on Tuesday by shareholder Raymond Eugenio, targets the company’s leadership and board members, including its chief executive, Adam Schechter. The first…
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Houzz lays off 155 employees, cuts executive salaries
Houzz, an online platform for home renovation and design, has laid off 155 employees, roughly 10 percent of its staff, per an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch. Executive salaries also took a cut. The company, last valued at $4 billion, confirmed the content of the memo in a statement to…
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Decrypted: Post-coronavirus, Auth0’s close call, North Korea warning, Awake’s Series C
Welcome to a look back at the past week in security and what it means for you. Each week we’ll look at the big news of the week and why it matters. What will the world look like after the coronavirus pandemic subsides? Some of us are now in our…
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Marriott says 5.2 million guest records stolen in another data breach
Marriott has confirmed a second data breach in three years — this time involving the personal information on 5.2 million guests. The hotel giant said Tuesday it discovered the breach of an unspecified property system at a franchise hotel in late February. The hackers obtained the login details of two…
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Online printing site Doxzoo exposed thousands of customer files
Doxzoo proudly says on its website that your “documents are in safe hands.” But for some time, that wasn’t true. The U.K. printing company left its customer files on a cloud storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services, without a password. Anyone who knew the easy-to-guess bucket name could access…
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Cathay Pacific fined £500k by UK’s ICO over data breach disclosed in 2018
Cathay Pacific has been issued with a £500,000 penalty by the UK’s data watchdog for security lapses which exposed the personal details of some 9.4 million customers globally — 111,578 of whom were from the UK. The penalty, which is the maximum fine possible under relevant UK law, was announced…
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