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APRIL 2, 2020

Marriott announced another data breach, this one affecting 5.2 name, mailing address, email address, and phone number) Loyalty Account Information (e.g., account number and points balance, but not passwords) Additional Personal Details (e.g., company, gender, and birthday day and month) Partnerships and Affiliations (e.g.,

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MARCH 6, 2020

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million of its guests.

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MAY 23, 2020

Officials revealed that the Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach that impacted some residents who have made unemployment claims. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity revealed that the Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach that impacted some residents who have made unemployment claims.

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MAY 21, 2020

Meal delivery service Home Chef has confirmed that it recently suffered a security breach that exposed its customer information. Meal delivery service Home Chef has disclosed a data breach that exposed its customer information. There’s no need to adjust the other sections on the Account page (e.g. Subscription”).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined US hotels group Marriott over the 2018 data breach that affected millions of customers worldwide. million) for multiple data breaches suffered by the company since 2018 that exposed the personal information of its customers. million ($23.5 According to the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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JUNE 12, 2021

Volkswagen America discloses a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal details of more than 3.3 Volkswagen America discloses a data breach suffered by a third-party vendor used by the car vendor for sales and marketing purposes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak). million of its customers.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The third-party company is owned by a former Team Leader, still Member of the JRD team at the time of the breach.” ” reads the data breach notification. “Known to the current Team Leader at the time of the breach. ( [link] ) Each backup copy included a full copy of the website, including all the data.”

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APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019. Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords.

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JUNE 18, 2020

In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. This week, Cognizant reported to the Office of the Attorney General of California that intruders were able to exfiltrated “a limited amount of data from Cognizant’s systems.”.

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MAY 6, 2020

Hackers have breached the online learning platform Unacademy and are selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. The attack against Neiman Marcus Group took place in May 2020, as a result of the attack, threat actors had access to customers’ information, including payment card data. Approximately 4.6

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MARCH 16, 2020

Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nitro PDF suffered a massive data breach that impacts many major organizations, including Apple, Chase, Citibank, Google, and Microsoft. A massive data breach suffered by the Nitro PDF might have a severe impact on well-known organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Chase, and Citibank. Nitro Software , Inc.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2020

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. According to the data breach notice send sent by email to the affected individuals, the attack took place on January 30 and February 7. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

The staff promptly locked out the intruders once discovered the data breach. According to the data breach notification email sent by the Radisson Hotel Group the security breach affected only a “small percentage” of the Radisson Rewards members. ” reads the data breach notification.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users. New breach: XKCD had 562k accounts breached last month. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

. “On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the august ransomware attack. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the ransomware attack that took place in August.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Zoom accounts are flooding the dark web, over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on hacker forums. Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are available for sale on the dark web and hacker forums. Cyble confirmed that the accounts’ credentials belonging to some of its clients were valid.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot.

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MAY 3, 2020

The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. – Database contains emails, password hashes, names pic.twitter.com/CZTYImj6jA — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) May 2, 2020. ZDNet confirmed the authenticity of the leaked data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Blue Cross of Idaho announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers accessed to the personal information of about 5,600 customers. According to officials, the portal of Blue Cross of Idaho was breached on March 21 in an attempt to fraudulently reroute financial transactions made by providers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful has suffered a data breach, just a few days after it has announced it would be acquired by the education tech firm Chegg for $80 million. Thinkful confirmed that an unauthorized user was able to gain access to employee accounts credentials. ” continues the notification.

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JULY 9, 2019

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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AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information.

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MARCH 14, 2020

Slack addressed a critical flaw within 24 hours from its disclosure, the issue allowed attackers to carry out automate account takeover. The researcher Evan Custodio discovered a critical vulnerability in Slack that could have allowed attackers to launch automate account takeover. ” explained the expert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed online via an exploit. . ” reported Slashgear.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Click2Mail.com, a US Postal Service affiliate partner, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The US Postal Service affiliate partner Click2Mail has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The security breach was discovered on October 4, 2019.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. I love beer. You'll never believe what happened next.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach. On August 1, the US social commerce marketplace Poshmark disclosed a data breach. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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