"LaunchPoint learned that some other, non-Anthem data, may have been misused by the employee." Insurance giant Anthem is once again reporting that they have suffered a data breach. The cause this time seems to have been one of Anthem's very own employee. The rogue employee sent 18,500 member records to their private email account. The revelation came on April 17, 2017 when Anthem's coordination firm, LaunchPoint Ventures, learned that one of their employees was "likely involv

"On March 13, 2017, during security monitoring activities, our data security team identified potential unauthorized access to certain Virgin America computer systems." - Alaska Air Vice President, Kyle Levine Virgin America has confirmed in a letter to employees that their network had been breached and credentials had been stolen. The breached occurred on March 13th earlier this year. Hackers had gained "gained unauthorized access to certain Virgin America information systems

"hotel reservations made for Google business travel were among the many reservations affected by a security incident impacting a third-party" - Google Notice of Data Breach UPDATE: 14.07.2017 - Statement from CWT A spokesman from CWT has reached out to Tritium Information Security and has provided us with the following statement: "CWT was informed by Sabre, that some traveler data had been viewed by an outside party due to a breach of Sabre’s Hospitality Solutions / SynXis Ce

The ransomware known as "Petya" has been ravaging computer networks around the world On Tuesday morning reports of a ransomware known as "Petya" was encrypting computers beginning in Ukraine. It quickly spread throughout business and enterprise computer networks in different countries. Although we do not have all the answers for Peyta here is what is known so far. What is Petya? Petya is a type of malware known as ransomware. Machines infected by the ransomware have their fil

The first infections in Ukraine — more than 12,500 machines encountered the threat. - Microsoft The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CRET) has issued an alert of the ransomware Petya that is infecting computers around the world. Petya is a type of malware that is taking the world by storm by encrypting files and demanding a payment of bitcoins in order to restore the stolen files. A spokesperson from Microsoft has stated "We saw the first infections in Ukra