117 million users breached on professional networking site @ LinkedIn Corporation

In 2012, 73% of their customers' password were stolen from the largest professional social networking site, impacting over 117 million user accounts. Storage of the passwords was not particularly secure, resulting in security researchers being able...

Data exposed by intrusion into hotel reservations system @ Sabre Corporation and 2 more...

In May 2017, a tech company that provides reservation system services for more than 36,000 properties, revealed a breach that allowed hotel customer payment information to be compromised. The unauthorized access was shut off and the company did no...

Customer data stolen from UK telecommunications company @ TalkTalk Telecom Group plc

Considered one of the UK’s biggest hacks in 2015, the company disclosed a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" in October during which details from 156,959 customer accounts were exposed including 15,656 customer's sort codes and bank account numb...

Data breach at hotel group affects credit card companies @ Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Rosen Millennium Technology Group, Inc.

In February 2016, the hotel group which prided itself on providing 'exceptional guest service' disclosed a data breach of customer credit card data over a prolonged period, leading not just to significant fines levied by their credit card issuers but ...

Customer records illegitimately accessed at online homeloan broker @ LendingTree

In January 2008, it was disclosed that an employee at this financial company conspired with third parties to provide both customer and administrator access credentials to their IT systems. This permitted the third parties to access confidential custom...

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