Marriott Hit With $123M Fine For Massive 2018 Data Breach

The U.K.’s privacy watchdog is hitting Marriott International with a $123 million £99 million penalty stemming from its 2018 data breach of more than 383 million guest records. The Tuesday fine is issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO and comes only a day after the organization...

Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office ICO today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite...

British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office ICO today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite...

Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations

Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission FTC as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that's about one month's revenue for the social media giant. To be clear the amount of fine is not what the FTC has announced or hinted yet...

Facebook May Face $5 Billion FTC Fine for Data Misuse

UPDATE Facebook may be facing fines as high as $5 billion after a year-long Federal Trade Commission FTC investigation into its data-security practices. Though it wasn’t mentioned in its earnings call on Wednesday, the social-media giant in a release for its Q1 2019 earnings said that it was...

Russia Fines Facebook $47 Over Citizens' Data Privacy Dispute

Yes, you read that right! Russia has fined Facebook with 3,000 rubles, roughly $47, for not complying with the country's controversial Data Localization law. It's bizarre and unbelievable, but true. In December last year, Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor sent notifications to Twitter and...

Cyber Security Week in Review (March 15)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week The U.S. warned Germany that...

FTC Hits TikTok With Record $5.7 Million Fine Over Children’s Privacy

The social media app will pay $5.7 million to settle the allegations, and be required to delete videos uploaded by anyone under 13...

Airbus Data Takes Flight; and Billions of Credentials Dumped on Dark Web

French airplane and military aircraft behemoth Airbus SE has become the latest victim of a cyberattack leading to a data breach, with an incident detected on its “commercial aircraft business” information systems. It is only the latest high-profile data exposure to come to light in recent days, a...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 25

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the biggest news from this week. That includes a rare “emergency directive” issued by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, which warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS hijacking attacks...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Focused Menus in Croatia

This is almost over: From 1 December 2018 -- 6 January 2019, Days of Adriatic squid will take place at restaurants all over north-west Istria. Restaurants will be offering affordable full-course menus based on Adriatic squid, combined with quality local olive oil and fine wines. As usual, you can...

Facebook Fined $11.3M for Privacy Violations

Facebook faces its second privacy-related fine in Europe, with the most recent action taken by the Italian Competition Authority. On Friday, Facebook was hit with two fines, totaling 10 million Euros about $11.3 million, for violating Italy’s Consumer Code. The Italian Competition Authority ICA...

A week in security (November 26 – December 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at our cybersecurity predictions for 2019, we explained why Malwarebytes participated in AV testing and how we took part in an joint take down of massive ad fraud botnets, warned that ESTA registration websites still lurk in paid ads on Google,...

This Week in Security News: Ethics and Law in the Dark Web

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how Trend Micro software can aid in safely securing containers on the AWS Cloud. Also, how the dark web has become a new advertising...

500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach

The world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International today disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and walked away with personal details of about 500 million guests. Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide was acquired by Marriott...

Uber fined $1.1 million by UK and Dutch regulators over 2016 data breach

British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 1.1 million for failing to protect its customers' personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users. Late last year, Uber unveiled that the company had...

Knuddels Flirt App Slapped with Hefty Fine After Data Breach

Germany has slapped a popular in-region dating, flirting and chat service with a €20,000 fine or around $22,667, after a hack affected more than 1.8 million accounts this summer. The Baden-Württemberg Data Protection Authority announced last week it had issued the fine, which is the country’s fir...

Modular Distributed Fingerprinting Engine: Scannerl

Scannerl is a modular distributed fingerprinting engine implemented by Kudelski Security. Scannerl can fingerprint thousands of targets on a single host, but can just as easily be distributed across multiple hosts. Scannerl is to fingerprinting what zmap is to port scanning. Scannerl works on...

Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers. Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both...