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South African telecom provider Cell C disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack

Security Affairs

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals.

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The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I know: Back in Feb, Dehashed reached out to me with a massive trove of data that had been left exposed on a major cloud provider via a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance.

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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Pharmaceutical giant Cencora suffered a cyber attack and threat actors stole data from its infrastructure. Pharmaceutical giant Cencora disclosed a data breach after it was the victim of a cyberattack. Cencora, Inc. The Company had $238.6 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2022 and had approximately 44,000 employees.

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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Krebs on Security

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a.

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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance

The Last Watchdog

Sadly, data breaches often occur at this time of year. Recently we’ve seen major news stories about breaches at Starwood Hotels and Quora. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. As I said, breaches cannot be 100 percent preventable, but there are a lot of ways to be proactive.

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Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group hacked by Maze ransomware operators

Security Affairs

The Hoa Sen Group (HSG) was founded in the year 2001, it has 7,100 employees across all its 343 companies and has been earning annual revenue of around $1.18 Maze ransomware operators claim to be in possession of the company’s sensitive data and are threatening to release it. . Hoa Sen Group is the no.1

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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

Krebs on Security

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., VFEmail provides email service to businesses and end users.

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