Italian cyber security company hacked and 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked @ HackingTeam

In July 2015, this breach was disclosed which exposed over 1 million emails from the company which develops spy tools for government agencies, including those that can go around traditional anti-virus solutions. The emails revealed the company's ...

139 million users hit in data breach @ Canva

In May 2019, the company suffered a data breach that affected 139 million customers. The company identified the attack whilst it was ongoing so the perpetrator took to twitter to make their attack public which forced the company into swift damage cont...

Gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with other companies @ Grindr and Grindr, Inc.

In April 2018, the online dating company disclosed that they had provided users’ HIV status, GPS location data and email addresses to two companies ("our trusted vendors, Apptimize and Localytics") hired to test their application's technical performan...

Canadian telecommunications business bankrupted by cyber attack? @ Nortel Networks Corporation

The spiral of decline at Nortel Networks leading ultimately to its bankruptcy in 2013 is now believed to have been directly caused by a decade-long cyber attack. Investigations have pointed to a state-sponsored attack resulting in intellectual prop...

CEO scam attack results in large financial loss @ Ubiquiti Networks Inc.

In August 2015, the US networking firm disclosed that cyber attackers stole USD $46.7 million using a business email compromise attack in which attackers pretend to be executives at the victim company to initiate unauthorised international wire transf...

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