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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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AusCERT and the Award for Information Security Excellence

Troy Hunt

Catch me at the panel about data breaches at 13:20 today pic.twitter.com/x7plUhWkY4 — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 30, 2018. Remember also, this has all only happened because I started writing a blog in 2009 , in fact I discuss that in the aforementioned talk about hacking your career.

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Maryland Department of Labor discloses a data breach

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The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts

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Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NASA hacked! An unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network was the entry point

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NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. The report says that hackers stole roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. .”

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RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries

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An example of leaked passwords included in the RockYou2021 compilation: With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times, this leak is comparable to the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB) , the largest data breach compilation ever. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RockYou2021).

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PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

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billion Aadhaars issued by the UIDAI since this ID service launched in 2009, this system represents one of the largest biometric ID programs on the planet, according to a report published by think tank Brookings Institution. In August, another threat actor going by the alias ‘ Lucius ’ posted a thread on Breach Forums promoting a 1.8