It may not be the first time the databases have been offered for sale.

Late last week, Australian security agencies reported they were looking into a security breach of the Federal Parliament’s network.

“The first lesson is that we need the victim to survive” - it is better to work together to learn from breaches than point the finger and shame.

Google was fined €50 million earlier this year – the biggest fine to date under the GDPR.

The OIAC received 262 notifications in the three months, the highest number since the commencement of the NDB scheme.

New Zealand Police say they are making ‘good progress’ into the investigation of an alleged cryptocurrency theft from Christchurch-based crypto exchange Cryptopia.

The research centres on how advanced cyber traps, which are used to identify data breaches as they happen, can be used in conjunction with tools such as artificial intelligence.

Dubbed “Collection #1”, the data set contains emails and passwords with over a billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords.

Cryptopia has reportedly experienced a security breach that has taken the entire platform offline – and resulted in ‘significant losses’.

The 2018 Singapore SingHealth data breach was poorly managed and riddled with vulnerabilities from the start.

In 2018, over a billion people’s data was compromised.

One Identity and Secureworks executives Alex Tilley and Serkan Cetin have released what they see coming for cybersecurity in 2019.

The compromised servers stored personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to current and former NASA employees.

Commvault's Nigel Tozer reflects on the year that's been and the one ahead with three predictions of what will be and one that won't.

One of Twitter’s support forums was hit by a data breach that may have ties to a state-sponsored attack, however users' personal data was exposed.

Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Quora’s 100 million users are the latest targets in a major data breach, but at least the company has moved quickly to contain it.

A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data. 

Dell is asking all of its Dell.com customers to change their passwords after it detected ‘unauthorised activity’ on its network earlier this month.

“Paying the attackers and then keeping quiet about it afterwards was not, in our view, an appropriate response to the cyber attack."

The HP New Zealand IT Security Study surveyed 434 New Zealand small to large businesses across the services, production, retail and hospitality.

Amazon isn't providing enough details about the error - and customers aren't happy.

"New data compliance rules offer an opportunity for businesses to re-evaluate their processes and improve data management and customer loyalty."