Foster parents' information breached in Maine (US) @ Maine Foster Care and Maine Office of Information Technology

In November 2017, residents in Maine receiving foster care were advised that their personal information had been exposed. During a system upgrade on 21st September 2017, a contractor hired by the Maine Office of Information Technology accidentally...

2 million customers' phone and credit card details leaked @ CeX Ltd

In August 2017, the second-hand electronics retailer suffered a data breach and notified 2 million registered customers that their information might have been compromised. Personal information including names, addresses, email addresses and phone ...

Company providing information security services 'bug' leaks company data online @ Cloudflare, Inc.

The company disclosed in February 2017 that “1 in every 3.3 million requests could have been leaked”, the exposed information was said to have included personally identifiable information, passwords, encryption keys, HTTP POST bodies, HTTP cookies and...

Data breach at workplace group chat tool @ Atlassian, Inc. and HipChat

In May 2017, the company sent a security notice to users warning them that their data had been breached after a connected third-party was targeted by hackers. The breach affected a server in the company's cloud web tier and for some (reported as 0...

1.5 million players details leaked at online video game community @ E-Sports Entertainment Association League

One of the largest video gaming communities disclosed a data breach in December 2016 though it wasn’t known at that time what was stolen or how many users were affected. Reportedly a ransom of $100,000 had been demanded which the company did not p...

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