O2 Data for Sale?

Now here’s an interesting data breach, it’s perhaps indicative of changing approaches by hackers. As companies thankfully become more savvy about protecting data, so hackers are having to become more creative. They augment stolen data by accessing more...

Another breach of very personal data

We read constantly of data breaches and of sensitive data being made available for sale on the ‘dark web’ – indeed as I reported here in February sometimes not even on the dark web. While we at Compliance3 tend to concentrate on the security of, and...

Co-ordinated thefts from ATM’s in Japan

We’ve written in the past about data breaches, where customers’ card details are stolen, and while the press tend to dwell on the ongoing risks to customers as a result of their data being compromised, it’s rare for the subsequent exploitation of data breaches to make...

The Panama Papers

Possibly the most significant data breach of our age. We’ve seen data breaches come and go; they make headlines for a couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks and are largely forgotten, except by those whose data has been compromised and their subsequent victims. The...

Card Details going cheap

We’ve written here, over the past twelve months, about some pretty significant data breaches. Some, like last October’s Talk Talk data breach, triggered an almost instant wave of spam and social engineering telephone calls. Elsewhere, the ‘dark...