The Boeing Company headquarters are shown January 25, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Boeing confirms attempted $200 million ransomware extortion attempt That attempt was one of multiple “extremely large” ransom demands made by LockBit over the years, authorities said. May 8, 2024 By AJ Vicens
(alengo/Getty Images) Millions of files with potentially sensitive information exposed online, researchers say A survey by Censys found 314,000 distinct internet-connected devices and web servers with open directory listings. Sep 27, 2023 By AJ Vicens
(Getty Images) Gigabytes of ‘sensitive’ internal Intel documents dumped online The company confirmed the incident is under investigation. Aug 6, 2020 By Greg Otto
(Wikicommons) Ex-NSA contractor pleads guilty to vast classified data leak, faces 9 years in prison The staggering leak was one of several damaging disclosures of NSA secrets in recent years. Mar 28, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty) Bad Box configurations lead to leaks of sensitive corporate data Box allows users to easily share files that are vulnerable to brute-force attacks, cybersecurity company Adversis said. Mar 11, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Pixabay) ‘Gold mine’ of customer loan, tax and other records exposed on open server 24 million records, one server, no password. Jan 23, 2019 By Zaid Shoorbajee
(Pexels) Facebook bug gave developers access to private photos of 6.8 million users Facebook says the bug existed for 12 days and was fixed promptly after discovery on Sept. 25. Dec 14, 2018 By Zaid Shoorbajee
The floor of the 2018 RSA Conference. (Courtesy of RSA Conference) RSA conference app leaks user data Here's a new adage for 2018: It's not a true security conference until someone discovers a flaw in the technology used by the conference's event staff. Apr 20, 2018 By Greg Otto