This spring’s crop of database breaches has been about as abundant as the pollen count this time of year. Each occurrence offers valuable lessons for security professionals with regard to locking down databases and the applications that access them. The following five high-profile breaches offer some of the low lights of late and what organizations can learn from each of these incidents. LivingSocial committed the ultimate social faux pas when it allowed thieves to pillage a database containing the personal details of 50 million of its customers. The $45 million ATM heist discovered by investigators this spring had its roots in a database hack.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/5-big-database-breaches-of-spring-2013