Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Last week, hackers published a list of Discord credentials (email addresses/passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. Last week, a group of hackers published a list of Discord login credentials (email addresses and passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

Booking.com, an online travel agency has been fined €475,000 for not reporting the data breach within the stipulated time frame crafted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The post Dutch company booking.com fined €558,000 for serious data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Every year about this time, Verizon comes out with an annual review of the results of its investigations into thousands of data breaches and security incidents from around the world. The report can be very data heavy and even a little depressing, but we can learn great things from it. Here are just ten: 1.

Retail 52

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Phishing scams can take many forms, and ransomware is one of the most dangerous. Addresses can easily lead to phone numbers, making people easy targets for phishing scams. Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

The archive included credentials for Zoom accounts belonging to organizations in various industries, including banking, consultancy, healthcare software companies. While some of the accounts “only” included an email and password, others included meeting IDs, names and host keys.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Healthcare Phishing Accountability Banking 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Data breach hunter Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to the company exposed online. The post Data for 600K customers of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Hacking Data breaches Identity Theft Advertising 106

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. ” The phishing email utilized a Constant Contact tracking URL that redirected the victims to a page designed to steal donors’ credit card details.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate. The situation was worse than initially thought, the company announced on Monday that the security breach affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Accessing an online account, users could make several actions, such as manage insurance claims and pay bills. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SecureBlitz

MAY 25, 2021

In 2014, over 5 million Google account passwords were leaked online after a successful data breach. I will show you tips to protect your privacy online as well as social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, etc. in this post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. What about data breaches? Source Accenture.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. “Today, we’re announcing Password Monitor in Microsoft Edge to help keep your online accounts safe from hackers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . On December 30th, 2019, users began receiving a message from the Poloniex exchange notifying them of the data leak. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Passwords Cryptocurrency Data breaches Advertising 64

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Identity Theft Passwords Advertising Accountability 119

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

The University of Utah Health disclosed a security breach, it has discovered malware on its systems and revealed unauthorized access to some employee email accounts. Attackers breached the organization with a phishing attack, the intrusion took place between January 7 and February 21, 2020. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem Inc. back in 2015. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Hacking Insurance Data breaches Identity Theft 75

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. ” The company hired a security firm to investigate the incident, it discovered that the attack begun with a phishing email received in July 2018.

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Passwords Retail Accountability Data breaches 75

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacking Cybercrime Data breaches Advertising 87

Spinone

MARCH 11, 2018

The Internet blew up with the latest news about Gmail phishing attack. What Was the Goal of Gmail Phishing Attack? The most intriguing part of the Google Docs phishing attack is that a victim received the email with a phishing link from a person who was familiar to him /her. What can we expect? What should we do next?

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

The hackers used a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks. There may also be additional affected accounts that have not been identified yet.” ” reads a data breach notification published by Binance. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

“The credentials of nearly 4 million MobiFriends users have recently been discovered by our Data Breach Research team on a prominent deep web hacking forum. The leaked data sets are currently available in a non-restricted manner despite being originally offered for sale.” SecurityAffairs – data leak, hacking).

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Passwords Hacking Data breaches Advertising 78

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hostinger disclosed a data breach that affects 14 Million customers. Binance says that leaked KYC Data are from third-party vendor. Experts uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering the Quasar RAT. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed. Remove it now from your phone!

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eCommerce Data breaches Malware Advertising 50

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Joker’s Stash, trading since 2014 , received more than $100,000 in Bitcoin from SSNDOB. Once your data is out there, you can’t get it back. You run the risk of being targeted for spear phishing, or having your personal information used for fraudulent applications. Tips for locking down after an SSN breach.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online. XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers. Experts devised advanced SMS phishing attacks against modern Android-based phones. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Crooks stole €1.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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IoT Data breaches DNS Advertising 78

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 8 security breaches available for sale. Million email accounts without permission.

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