Kayla Matthews
Kayla Matthews is a technology journalist with an interest in tech productivity and cybersecurity. Her work has appeared in Digital Trends, Security Boulevard, InformationWeek and others. To see more of her work, visit ProductivityBytes.com or follow her Twitter account @KaylaEMatthews.
More content by Kayla Matthews
Incident of the Week: Nintendo Investigating 160,000 Account Breaches
May 01 by Kayla Matthews
The Japanese video game company has since readdressed weak points in its security. Rumors of a breach circulated throughout the month as users noticed unusual account behavior. Players reported that f...
Incident Of The Week: How Hackers Are Taking Advantage of Coronavirus
April 17 by Kayla Matthews
While hackers direct some of their attacks at health organizations, CISOs should be cognizant of cybercriminals' capabilities. From the World Health Organization (WHO) to Italy's INPS, these are the p...
Incident Of The Week: Health and Human Services Hit with Security Breach
March 27 by Kayla Matthews
On March 15th, the HHS's network security system detected a sharp increase in activity. Over several hours, hackers tried to overload the department's servers with millions of requests. The hackers we...
Incident Of The Week: Carnival Cruise Lines Hit By Cyber-Attack
March 06 by Kayla Matthews
A Carnival cruise ship was subject to a cyber-attack in May of 2019. Though several months have passed, the effects are still lingering. This Incident Of The Week looks at how the cruise line responde...
Incident Of The Week: Leak Discloses UN Data Breach From 2019
February 07 by Kayla Matthews
Hackers broke into dozens of United Nations (UN) servers in July of last year, and UN officials kept quiet about it. The worst part? PII was stolen and employees were kept in the dark. Cyber Security...
Incident Of The Week: Zynga Security Breach Affects 170 Million User Accounts
January 10 by Kayla Matthews
Mobile game developer Zynga disclosed unauthorized access to 170 million user records. With personal data at stake, an openness and level of transparency is needed by businesses when communicating wit...
Incident Of The Week: Mixcloud Data Breach Puts 20 Million Users at Risk
December 06 by Kayla Matthews
British music streaming service Mixcloud admitted this month that data from more than 20 million users was compromised in a data breach. This Incident Of The Week explores what data was stolen and how...
Incident Of The Week: UniCredit Breach Impacts 3 Million Clients
November 01 by Kayla Matthews
A customer file created in 2015 has been breached according to disclosures from banking and financial services company UniCredit. In this edition of Incident Of The Week, we look into the trend of mod...
IOTW: Multiple Yahoo data breaches across four years result in a $117.5 million settlement
October 07 by Kayla Matthews
Yahoo has had a years-long history of both data breaches and cases where hackers break into systems but do not take anything. The collective hacks have led to an eventual court settlement. In this Inc...
Incident Of The Week: Apple iPhones Affected By Data Breach Discovered By Google’s Project Zero Security Researchers
September 06 by Kayla Matthews
Apple has patched a series of iPhone vulnerabilities discovered by Google’s Project Zero security researchers allowing malware to be embedded into iOS devices. Infiltrated smartphones were capable of...
IOTW: Historic Capital One hack reaches 100 million customers affected by breach
August 02 by Kayla Matthews
A closer look at what happened in the Capital One mega-breach, the kinds of data compromised, and the financial services organization’s response in the CShub Incident Of The Week.
Incident Of The Week: Dominion National Finds Evidence of Data Breach Nearly a Decade Later
July 05 by Kayla Matthews
In late April 2019, Dominion National investigated an internal alert with the assistance of an outside cybersecurity firm. The results showed that unauthorized parties could have had access to some of...
