Breach Diary

•           Jan. 18. Softpedia reports confirmation of a information breach that compromised a database of 6 million Nexus Mods person bills. Nexus Mods is the largest gaming mods database at the net.

•           Jan. 18. New West health services reviews robbery of pc containing non-public information of contemporary or former customers. The breach reportedly may want to affect 25,000 people. but, the corporation says there's no evidence that the facts has been accessed or used.

•           Jan. 19. security researcher Chris Vickery reports that a database containing the non-public account information of 325,000 Earbits users changed into uncovered on the net for an unknown time period.

•           Jan. 20. FACC publicizes it incurred US$55 million in damages when its economic accounting branch turned into the goal of cyberfraud.

•           Jan. 20. SplashData releases annual listing of worse passwords. Its evaluation of greater than 2 million leaked passwords in 2015 reveals that the most used password become "password," observed with the aid of 123456 and 12345678.

•           Jan. 20. A distributed denial-of-provider attack disrupts the internet site for eire's country wide Lottery for two hours.

•           Jan. 20. college students at Virginia Tech university petition the management to get rid of two-issue authentication requirement for certain web sites as it's a "problem."

•           Jan. 21. Kantar Worldpanel Comtech reviews TalkTalk, which suffered a huge information breach in final yr's fourth area, misplaced 7 percentage of its customers and 4.four percentage of its marketplace proportion during that length.

•           Jan. 21. Irish pc Society releases a survey that discovered 55 percent of Irish organizations have visible their data stolen, hacked or in any other case compromised over the past 12 months largely because of "negligent employees."

•           Jan. 22. The Obama management pronounces it has asked the defense branch to design, construct and operate a new laptop machine for storing and processing non-public records for federal personnel, contractors and others. in keeping with news reviews, the circulate is a response to the big records breach at the workplace of employees control remaining 12 months.

•           Jan. 22. The university of Virginia proclaims that a data breach of its human resources systems has uncovered tax information for 1,four hundred employees and direct deposit banking information for forty others.

•           Jan. 22. Irish authorities websites return on line after DDoS attack took them offline.

•           Jan. 22. Northwest Territories power sends letter to an undisclosed variety of clients informing them that their private statistics became despatched accidentally to a client in an electronic mail attachment. The employer says the consumer did now not open the email and has signed a confidentiality settlement.

Upcoming protection occasions

•           Jan. 28. know-how Malware Lateral spread used in high fee assaults. midday ET. Webinar subsidized with the aid of Cyphort. unfastened with registration.

•           Jan. 28. nation of the Phish -- A 360-degree View. 1 p.m. ET. Webinar subsidized sponsored by means of Wombat security technology. unfastened with registration.

•           Jan. 28. Cybersecurity Forecast: what is on the Horizon. 2 p.m. ET. Webinar sponsored with the aid of Kaspersky Lab. loose with registration.

•           Feb. 3. building an IT protection recognition program That honestly Works. 2 p.m. ET. InformationWeek DarkReading webinar. loose with registration.

•           Feb. 4. 2016 annual international Infrastructure security update. 11 a.m. ET. Webinar sponsored via Arbor Networks. free with registration.

•           Feb. five-6. B-aspects Huntsville. Dynetics, 1004 Explorer Blvd., Huntsville, Alabama. unfastened.

•           Feb. 9. start With security. college of Washington regulation faculty, 4293 Memorial way NE, Seattle. sponsored by way of Federal alternate fee. loose.

•           Feb. eleven. SecureWorld Charlotte. Charlotte convention middle, 501 South university St., Charlotte, North Carolina. Registration: conference bypass, $195; SecureWorld Plus, $625; well-knownshows and open classes, $30.

•           Feb. 11. statistics Breach & privacy Litigation conference. Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California St., San Francisco. Registration: attorneys and corporations, $795; litigation provider company, $1,195; law firm assistant, $375; criminal marketing attendee, $595.

•           Feb. 11-12. fits and Spooks DC. The country wide Press membership, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Registration: $599; government and academia, $499.

•           Feb. sixteen. Architecting the Holy Grail of network security. 1 p.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by way of Spikes protection. unfastened with registration.

•           Feb. 17. stopping Breaches at the fringe: strategies for relaxed access manage. 1 p.m. ET. Webinar subsidized by 451 research and SecureAuth. free with registration.

•           Feb. 20. B-facets Seattle. The Commons Mixer constructing, 15255 NE fortieth St., Redmond, Washington. Tickets: participant, $15 plus $1.37 fee; superb notable donor participant, $100 plus $three.forty nine charge.

•           Feb. 28-29. B-aspects San Francisco. DNA lounge, 375 eleventh St., San Francisco. Registration: $25.

•           Feb. 29-March 4. RSA u.s. 2016. The Moscone center, 747 Howard St., San Francisco. Registration: full convention bypass before Jan. 30, $1,895; earlier than Feb. 27, $2,295; after Feb. 26, $2,595.

•           Feb. 29-March four. HIMSS16. Sands Expo and conference center, Las Vegas. Registration: before Feb. three, $865; after Feb. 2, $1,one hundred sixty five.

•           March 10-11. B-aspects SLC. Salt Palace conference middle, 90 South West Temple, Salt Lake town. Registration: $sixty five.

•           March 18. Gartner identity and get right of entry to control Summit. London. Registration: earlier than Jan 23, 2,225 euros plus VAT; after Jan. 22, 2,550 euros plus VAT; public area. $1,950 plus VAT.

•           March 29-30. SecureWorld Boston. Hynes convention center, showcase hall D. Registration: convention bypass, $325; SecureWorld Plus, $725; exhibits and open sessions, $30.

•           June thirteen-sixteen. Gartner security & hazard management Summit. Gaylord national resort & conference middle, 201 Waterfront St., national Harbor, Maryland. Registration: before April sixteen, $2,950; after April 15, $3,150; public zone, $2,595.