Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2025

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals.

Data breaches 129

Data breaches Unstructured Data Identity Theft Healthcare 129

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

. “Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. ” UNC5537 used stolen credentials obtained via infostealer malware.

Unstructured Data 122

Unstructured Data Media Hacking Cybercrime 122

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2024

“The impacted server analysed by McGrathNicol Advisory consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructured data stored across a variety of data sets.” .” reads a company’s statement on cyber security incident.

Data breaches 133

Data breaches Unstructured Data Healthcare Identity Theft 133

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain. The attack took place on May 23, 2023 and the Play ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the data breach. ” concludes the announcement.

Ransomware 139

Ransomware Data breaches Unstructured Data Architecture 139

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

Retail 71

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 71

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Any operational downtime or even worse data loss due to a data breach could significantly impact customer loyalty and their highly anticipated holiday season revenues. According to a recent study, the average cost of a retail data breach in 2024 is reported to be $3.48

Retail 64

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Risk 64

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By September of 2021, the number of publicly reported data breaches had already surpassed the total of the previous year by 17%. Increasingly, personal privacy is being viewed as a human right, and the way vendors handle consumer and employee data will determine how much the public trusts them and wants to conduct business with them.

Data breaches 142

Data breaches Ransomware Government Cybersecurity 142