What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast

Data Security

The latest on data breaches and cybersecurity and data security by Adam K Levin.

Wawa data breach
Convenience store and gas station chain Wawa informed customers of a data breach that compromised payment card information at most of its 842 locations. In...
2020 Cybersecurity predictions
2019 is virtually over and a new year beckons with all the solemnity of the grim reaper for those who don't have their eyes...
Honours leak
2020 seems to be getting off to an inauspicious start with the compromise of the home addresses of prominent UK citizens--many of them in...
CCPA
California’s groundbreaking privacy law went into effect January 1, 2020. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires businesses to inform state residents if their data...
pro-iranian hackers
A federal website was defaced with pro-Iranian messaging in what is believed to be retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed one of...
Travelex
Currency exchange giant Travelex has effectively been taken offline by a ransomware attack.  The attack was first detected the night of December 31. Soon after,...
Las Vegas cyberattack
The City of Las Vegas successfully averted what could have been a disastrous cyberattack earlier this month. City officials detected a cyberattack January 7, and...
WeLeakInfo
The FBI has seized the domain of WeLeakInfo.com, an online service that sold data from hacked and breached websites. The domain seizure and termination of...
Mitsubishi data breach
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it experienced a major data breach in June 2019 that has been traced back to a Chinese hacking group. “ur...
Avast antivirus
A subsidiary of Avast antivirus is selling sensitive user browsing data to many companies, including Revlon, Microsoft, Google, Yelp, Condé Nast, and TripAdvisor. According to...