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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation also exposed information regarding stock files and production services via unsecured cloud servers.

Cash Converters, a pawnbroker and loan firm, has launched an investigation after suffering a data breach impacting a UK customer database.

Industry survey finds financial players lack confidence when it comes to meeting regulations.

Forever 21 operates more than 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia,Canada and India.

Customers' names, email addresses, passwords, billing addresses, phone numbers, payment details and more may have been stolen by hackers.

The data exposure was caused by an unsecured Apache Hive database, which leaked extensive data about both customers and drivers.

The leak comes just months after a university staffer leaked sensitive data, including family bereavements, health problems and personal issues, of students in another mass email.

Personal information of scores of people was reportedly publicly leaked via the Scottish Appropriate Adult Network (SAAN) website.

The latest breach impacted six websites, including Toyotanation.com and Jeepforum.com – the company's second most popular website.

Equifax has drawn intense scrutiny since the disclosure of the massive hack that compromised valuable personal and financial information of 145.5 million Americans.

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The data left exposed included names, IDs, passwords, phone numbers, addresses, credit card information, staff salary details and more.

At least 10 financial institutions around the world have been hit with a new banking Trojan by an alleged Russian-speaking cybercrime group codenamed "Silence".

Heathrow launched an investigation after the device, which reportedly contained confidential security data, was found by an unspecified man.

Appleby's long list of clients, while not named publicly, include banks, corporations, FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies and "high net worth individuals".

The news comes nearly a year after disclosures from the Panama Papers shook the global political elite and triggered investigations into prominent figures worldwide.

The data of Tarte Cosmetics' customers was left publicly exposed via two unsecured MongoDB databases, which were later accessed by the Cru3lty ransomware gang.

The leaked records contained citizen ID numbers, names, genders, martial statuses, home ownership information, employment details and income data.

Microsoft believed that no customer was put at risk by the loss of data. As a result, officials decided not to tell the public about the breach.

The company said it was alerted by Troy Hunt, security expert and founder of the data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned.

Pizza Hut said that its website was compromised and hackers stole some of its customers' card data between 1 and 2 October.

The largest number of Hyatt properties impacted were based in China with 18 hotels.

The incident comes a month after Equifax disclosed that it suffered a massive breach that compromised valuable personal and financial data of 145.5 million Americans.

The case reportedly relates to the alleged hacking of a Tunbridge Wells firm in April this year, which resulted in one of its clients losing £25,000 via fake invoice.

The number of infections in Latin America remains small, but the IBM researchers believe that such a strategy is run-of-the-mill for the cybercrime gang responsible.

A security researcher described the incident as a "very critical data breach, making every T-Mobile cell phone owner a victim".

The data targeted by the hackers contained records dated between 2011 and 2016. The NCSC issued out a statement advising affected users on how to handle the breach.

Most of the exposed records seemed to be related to tests conducted over the past summer.

Accenture left at least 4 cloud servers publicly exposed, leaving sensitive corporate and customer data potentially freely accessible to hackers.

"While we are still investigating the incident, we believe that it is best to share what we know now," Disqus' chief technology officer Jason Yan said.