SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

AI service Cutout.Pro has suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of 20 million members, including email addresses, hashed and salted passwords, IP addresses, and names. [.]

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The nonprofit organization Freecycle Network (Freecycle.org) confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7 million users. The security breach was discovered on August 30, exposed data includes usernames, User IDs, email addresses and passwords.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 1, 2023

As a result of another attack on LastPass’s systems, the company disclosed a severe data breach in December 2022 that allowed threat actors to access encrypted password vaults.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The password manager's most recent data breach is so concerning, users need to take immediate steps to protect themselves.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

MGM Resorts confirmed the leaked data as being the result of a data breach that occurred last year. We are confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.”. The post MGM Data Breach Affects Over 10 Million Customers appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T Data Breach: How to Know If Your Information Has Been Exposed IdentityIQ More than 51 million people have had their personal information compromised in the recent AT&T data breach. The exposed data has been found on the dark web , a place where cybercriminals buy and sell leaked personal information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

An unprotected cloud server is said to have led the security researchers belonging to UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to a data trove of a quarter billion passwords. The aim was to see whether any of the quarter billion password were compromised and the online account services linked to those passwords were been misused.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Samsung Electronics disclosed a data breach that exposed customer personal information to an unauthorized individual. Samsung Electronics suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of some of its customers to an unauthorized individual. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

Protecting yourself from a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Every breach is different, so check with the vendor to find out what’s happened, and follow any specific advice they offer. Change your password.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2024

com's database, exposing the sensitive data of a vast number of the gaming site's users. The post Airsoft Data Breach Exposes Data of 75,000 Players appeared first on Security Boulevard. Failure to configure authentication allowed malicious actors to exploit Airsoftc3.com's

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ personal information. Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. DarkBeam has apparently been collecting information to alert its customers in case of a data breach. Sample of leaked data. What to do if your password was leaked?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2024

As is often the case these days, it turns out that the cyberincident was very likely a ransomware attack that included a data breach. Ransomware operators typically steal data from the compromised systems to use as extra leverage against the victim. Change your password. Check the vendor’s advice.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 9, 2021

billion password entries, says CyberNews. Dubbed RockYou2021, the list as revealed on a hacker forum contains 8.4

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2024

Beware of scammers Scammers are always on the lookout for data breaches as it presents an opportunity for phishing. Data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Change your password. There are a few tips to keep in mind.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 13, 2024

Streaming company Roku has revealed that over 15,000 customers' accounts were hacked using stolen login credentials from unrelated data breaches. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Pwned Passwords is a repository of 613M passwords exposed in previous data breaches, which makes them very poor choices for future use. They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Risk Level 3 Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. Remember when we talked about Facebook , Marriott , easyJet , and J.Crew ’s data breaches in past years? They can even help generate secure passwords for you!

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

New revelations have shed light on the extensive fallout of the 23andMe data breach, which exposed the personal information of a staggering 6.9 This significant update comes almost two months after the genetic testing company initially reported a breach affecting 14,000 individuals. million users.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen. million customers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 230,000 individuals. Access to the affected legacy database has also been closed.”continues

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. The original WordPress Admin password that was set at the time of provisioning was exposed.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

OpenSubtitles has suffered a data breach, the maintainers confirmed that the incident impacted 7 Million subscribers. OpenSubtitles is a popular subtitles websites, it suffered a data breach that affected 6,783,158 subscribers. ” reads a data breach notification published on the website.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Millions of Neiman Marcus customers have had their personal and financial information exposed in a data breach. million customers of Neiman Marcus Group stores, specifically Neiman Marcus and Last Call, are being notified about the data breach by email. According to the press release 4.6 What information was stolen?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. The telecom giant had initially claimed that a large trove of personal data leaked on the Dark Web did not originate from their systems.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Scammers often try to take advantage of data breaches. They know that the breached company is likely to be contacting victims, and that the victims will be looking out for emails from the company. Users are also advised to rotate database passwords and enable multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. ” reads the data breach notification published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. The vulnerability on which the attack was based has been fixed.”

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 17, 2023

Category Awareness, Guides Risk Level Data breaches are a significant concern here in the digital age. million victims were impacted by a data breach in 2022 alone. Remember when we talked about Facebook , Marriott , easyJet , and J.Crew ’s data breaches in past years? Now what do I do?"

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Also, no customer account passwords were accessed. million of them.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At Malwarebytes we’ve been telling people for years not to reuse passwords, and that a password manager is a secure way of remembering all the passwords you need for your online accounts. But we also know that a password manager can be overwhelming, especially when you’re just getting started. Encryption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The threat actors claim the stolen database contains customer information, including names, emails, phone numbers, hashed passwords, and password salt.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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