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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

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[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers

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American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. ” The company pointed out that it does not store Social Security numbers and financial information in its systems. million customers.

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A data breach broker is selling account databases of 17 companies

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A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. The threat actor is advertising the stolen data since October 28 on a hacker forum. Only RedMart, after being informed by Bleeping computer, disclosed a security breach. million (8.1

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SFO discloses data breach following the hack of 2 of its websites

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San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. In March hackers compromised two websites of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and now it disclosed a data breach. ” continues the data breach notice.

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Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach

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The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Foxit Software discloses a data breach that exposed user passwords

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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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Havenly discloses data breach, 1.3M accounts available online

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Havenly, a Denver-Based company, that realized an interior designer marketplace has disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3 The US-based interior design web site Havenly has disclosed a data breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum.