Robert Pleasant

Robert Pleasant is a writer and unabashed nerd, contributing news coverage and editorial articles to SiliconANGLE. His experience includes writing articles for websites such as UCStrategies, G33k-HQ, and Green Tea Graffiti, covering a range of subjects in technology, gaming, and entertainment. Robert, known to his friends as Robbie, earned his degree in Creative Writing from University of California, Santa Cruz, before getting into the tech news field, and in addition to the writing he does for SiliconANGLE, enjoys creating original comedic stories in his downtime.

Latest from Robert Pleasant

Hacker leaks personal information of Chinese officials and industry leaders

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

When you try to control the Internet, the Internet sometimes bites back. The Chinese government suffered a large data breach, as the personal information of Chinese Communist Party officials, and several industry leaders, were exposed and posted to Twitter. While the account …

Hospital suffers data breach as employee steals over the course of seven years

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Sometimes a data breach can be a quick strike and resolution, other times it’s a long game. In the case of UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital, an employee was accessing files without authorization over the course of about seven years, taking in names, health insurance …

Multiple banks struck by Turkish hackers

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

More banks are under cyber attack, with five South Asian banks suffering a data breach. Turkish hacking group Bozkurtlar (translated to “Grey Wolves”) has taken credit for the attack, following its recent attacks on the Qatar National Bank and UAE’s InvestBank. The …

US House of Representatives fortifies its defenses against ransomware threat

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

What do politics and cyber security have in common? They can be a pain to deal with, but ignoring them will have disastrous consequences. Well, the House of Representatives should make sure to not ignore their cyber security, as ransomware attacks have …

Parents beware: Data breach at Kiddicare

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

The life of a new parent can be rough, between the minimal sleep, the need to constantly keep an eye on the child, the constant barrage of often-contradictory parenting advice, and the data breaches. Actually, that last one wasn’t a problem until …

Charles Schwab customers learn what happens when you repeat a password

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

If you have investments saved in a Charles Schwab account, keep an eye out for contact from the bank soon. A recent data breach has seen unauthorized login activity on several accounts, but the interesting part is, it’s not Charles Schwab that …

200 million emails compromised: Is yours on the list?

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

A massive hack has resulted in the theft of usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites, which are now on sale in Russia. This includes users of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft emails, as well as Russia’s Mail.ru service, and stands …

Gumtree hack loses customer info, no passwords stolen

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

There’s no denying that people aren’t fond of advertisements, but that doesn’t justify a cyber attack on ad-posting websites. Still, that didn’t stop hackers from hitting the website Gumtree, and taking the email addresses, names, and phone numbers of several of its …

SWIFT reports Bangladesh bank breach is one of many

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

Following the massive hack in the central bank of Bangladesh, which was made possible by vulnerabilities in SWIFT software, SWIFT has now admitted that this is not the first time the platform has been compromised. SWIFT, which stands for Society for Worldwide …

Goldcorp gets mined in massive data breach

NEWS By ROBERT PLEASANT10 YEARS AGO

A group of hackers think they may have struck gold when they went after Goldcorp, a gold-mining firm in Vancouver. The metaphorical riches plundered come in the form of company and employee information, making up around 14.8 GB worth of data, including banking …

Robert Pleasant

Latest from Robert Pleasant

Hacker leaks personal information of Chinese officials and industry leaders

Hospital suffers data breach as employee steals over the course of seven years

Multiple banks struck by Turkish hackers

US House of Representatives fortifies its defenses against ransomware threat

Parents beware: Data breach at Kiddicare

Charles Schwab customers learn what happens when you repeat a password

200 million emails compromised: Is yours on the list?

Gumtree hack loses customer info, no passwords stolen

SWIFT reports Bangladesh bank breach is one of many

Goldcorp gets mined in massive data breach

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