Data Breach Alert? How to Confirm Exposure and What to Fix First

Data Breach Alert? How to Confirm Exposure and What to Fix First

You open your inbox, see a message from a service you barely remember signing up for, and the word breach jumps off the screen. Or worse, a push notification or a news alert about a cyberattack lands first and you have no idea whether your account was inside the blast radius. The good news is … Read more

One Compromised Credential, 1,500 Records: Meta’s GitHub Breach Explained

One Compromised Credential, 1,500 Records: Meta’s GitHub Breach Explained

Meta has confirmed that an outside group reached some of its GitHub repositories using a stolen employee credential and walked away with source code and personal information tied to roughly 1,500 people, most of them US-based employees. The company says the intrusion did not stem from a flaw in any Meta product and did not … Read more

Denmark’s CPR Data Breach Exposes 8.8 Million Records in Record Cyberattack

Denmark’s CPR Data Breach Exposes 8.8 Million Records in Record Cyberattack

Denmark’s government confirmed on 5 October that its Central Person Register (CPR) — the identity database at the heart of the country’s highly digitised public sector — was compromised and most of its contents stolen. Officials have labelled it the most serious cyber incident in Danish history. Depending on the figure cited, between 8 million … Read more