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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

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million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. ” . .

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UK ICO proposes a $123 million fine for Marriott 2014 data breach

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The UK’s data privacy regulator plans to fine giant hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million ($123 million) under GDPR over 2014 data breach. ’s Information Commissioner’s Office, Marriott International was not compliant to the European Union’s data protection regulation GDPR.

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UK ICO fines hotel chain giant Marriott over data breach

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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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SunCrypt Ransomware behind North Carolina school district data breach

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A school district in North Carolina disclosed a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. The Haywood County School district in North Carolina has suffered a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Marriott International suffered a new data breach, attackers stole 20GB of data

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Hotel chain Marriott International suffered a new data breach, a threat actor has stolen 20GB from the company. Hotel chain Marriott International confirmed it has suffered a new data breach after a threat actor stole 20GB of files from one of its properties. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo!

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Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo! Consequences from the Yahoo Data Breach. Though it’s easy to focus on the cost of a data breach, the ramifications of Yahoo!’s s breach were vast and equally as destructive. accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! billion to $4.48

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Cognizant admitted data breach in April Ransomware Attack

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In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. Now the company informed its customers that the threat actors also stole personally identifiable and financial information before encrypting the files. Pierluigi Paganini.