London’s Hackney Council has been forced to pay an incredible £12 million after its online services and IT systems were hit by a cyber-attack.
The personal data of 129,000 customers and 23 businesses was exposed in a 2020 cyber-attack on a telco company. Australia-based Optus revealed in September that 10 million customers had been exposed in a data breach – but it has since come to light that a further two attacks were made on its parent company,
The former security officer of Uber, Joe Sullivan, has been convicted on criminal charges in relation to a data breach.
A healthcare system in Wisconsin and Illinois has had to notify patients of a data breach that exposed millions of personal details.
Technology corporation IBM has announced a $5 million grant to schools to improve their readiness for cyber-attacks. The grants will go to schools in Ireland,
Executives from Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and other social media companies are due to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
