“If claims that data for 100 million people have been hacked prove to be true, [the] breach will be among the largest carrier data breaches ever."
CFOs can add discipline to the technology selection process and set the “tone at the top’” by demonstrating a willingness to upskill.
The new report also found that breaches cost over $1 million more on average when remote work was indicated as a factor in the event.
At the median, public companies took 37 days last year to disclose a breach, the longest period recorded since 2016, says Audit Analytics.
The data was exposed after a response to a Freedom of Information Act request was published online.
The lab testing giant says a hacker gained access to personal data of about 11.9 million patients that it had provided to a billing collection service.
A suspected Ukrainian hacker allegedly passed on data he stole from the EDGAR database to traders who used it to make illicit stock trading profits.
The company lowered its estimate of guests compromised by the hack of a reservation system to an upper limit of 383 million from 500 million.
A congressional committee concludes cybersecurity complacency at Equifax led to one of the largest data breaches in corporate history.
The crowdsourced question-and-answer site said 100 million users were affected.
'Unauthorized access' to the database may have compromised the personal information of hundreds of millions of people who stayed at Starwood hotels.
The strain of ransomware that was reportedly used in the attack on LabCorp can "effectively lock down a computer, encrypting all the files inside."
