Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2021

If that trend continues, or even if there is only an average of 141 new compromises per month for the next six months, the total will still exceed the previous high of 1,632 breaches set in 2017. The post Phishing, Ransomware Driving Wave of Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 The study highlights the significant impact of the ongoing pandemic on the cost of data breaches and the effort to contain them. since the 2017). ” states IBM Security.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.6 million customers, exposed data includes financial data and social security numbers (SSNs). Mercedes-Benz USA disclosed on Friday a data breach that impacted some of its customers and potential vehicle buyers. The incident exposed approximately 1.6

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For the last 4 years, I've also run a free service called Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which aggregates data breaches and presently contains about 4.8 million people presently subscribe to those notifications and I've had up to 3 million people visit the site in a single day after a major data breach.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But it's equally important that we acknowledge exemplary handling of data breaches when they occur because that's behaviour that should be encouraged. Last week, someone reached out and shared a number of data breaches with me. Breaches I'd never seen before. — Jesse Houston (@gtez) October 6, 2017.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. It all started with this tweet: Just hijacked some big MySQL database server containing 53K credit card details with complete CVV2 happy new years to the 4 million users pic.twitter.com/pXda5DbNCz — Taylor (@0x55Taylor) December 31, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. In April 2017, another cyber attack hit McDonald’s Canada career website and hackers stole records of 95,000 job seekers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach ).

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sizable fines assessed for data breaches since 2019 suggest that regulators are getting more serious about organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Marriott was hit with a $124 million fine, later reduced, while Equifax agreed to pay a minimum of $575 million for its 2017 breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals. “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2024

Dell is warning its customers about a data breach after a cybercriminal offered a 49 million-record database of information about Dell customers on a cybercrime forum. So, this is another big data breach that leaves us with more questions than answers. It is up to date information registered at Dell servers.

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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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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 22, 2024

A data breach at National Public Data, a relatively obscure but widely connected company, has exposed 272 million Social Security numbers. This breach, reminiscent of the 2017 Equifax breach but on an even larger scale, has sent shockwaves through the security sector.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2021

An independent security researcher reported on June 11th,2021 that a data breach on a cloud platform has leaked over 1.6 What’s interest in the find is that the carmaker discovered from the security audit that the accessed data would require special software and tools to read the content on the stolen files.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

What I said was that the very act of firms contracting with breach response services inhibit the creation of a market for breach response, and the FTC should require them to give vouchers to consumers. Vice Motherboard is reporting that " Firm Hired to Monitor Data Breaches Is Hacked, 143 Million Social Security Numbers Stolen."

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Security Affairs

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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. A redacted portion of the CIA’s report on the Wikileaks breach. ” -CIA’s Wikileaks Task Force.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

ComputerWeekly reported back in May that more data records were stolen in January 2021 than in all 12 months of 2017. million records were stolen in January, reflecting the continued increase in cyber attacks and putting 2021 to be on track to be a record year for data breaches.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files. The company added that the data breach impacted some Nissan customers, dealers, and current and former employees.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach. According to The Wall Street Journal, Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach.

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Identity IQ

MAY 10, 2024

Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers IdentityIQ Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers Dell recently announced its investigation into a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 49 million customers. How Did This Data Breach Happen?

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The security incident was the latest to affect the service in recent times in the wake of unauthorized access to its development environment in August last year , serious vulnerabilities in 2017 , a phishing attack in 2016 , and a data breach in 2015. To read this article in full, please click here

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The automaker reveals in a data breach warning that a subcontractor uploading Toyota source code to a GitHub repository unintentionally set to public access was the primary cause of the data loss. The post Toyota Discloses Data Breach Impacting Source Code appeared first on Hacker Combat.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequency with which it's been suffering data breaches that have ultimately landed in my inbox. i'm also the creator of the data breach aggregation service known as "have i been pwned".

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Users can check if their data have been exposed in the StreetEasy and Sephora data breaches. SecurityAffairs – StreetEasy, data breach).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2024

CrowdStrike’s investigation reveals that USDoD’s leader, Luan BG, has been a hacktivist active since at least 2017. Then Federal Police arrested him as part of a recently launched Operation code-named “Operation Data Breach.” However, the Brazilian national turned into more complex cybercriminal activities by 2022.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2019

The former CIO of Equifax has been sentenced to prison for selling his stock in the company before news of its 2017 data breach was publicly announced. Information Solutions, sold his shares in the company for over $950,000 ten days before the company admitted that its data had been accessed by hackers. Attorney Byung J.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? and River City Media data breaches. Who is Verifications.io, and what information was exposed in the data breach? Was your personal data exposed in a data breach?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Bad news for the Australian telecommunications industry, the largest company in the country Telstra suffered a data breach. Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed a data breach through a third-party supplier. You may have heard about a data breach involving Telstra employee details.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. One reader’s copy of their Equifax Breach Settlement letter. They received a check for $6.97. In February 2020, the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2023

Joe Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Uber, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for covering up a cyber attack on the company’s servers in 2016, which led to a data breach affecting over 50 million riders and drivers.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The current threat landscape isnt just about data breaches. CEOs say that protecting their innovations and customer data is now a business necessity, not just an IT concern. Risk management has re-entered the top 10 CEO priorities for the first time since 2017, with cybersecurity at the heart of that shift.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The international soccer league FIFA announced it had been hacked earlier this year and is bracing itself for a potential data breach. This latest cyber incident marks the second major successful hack on the organization, the first reported in 2017. terabytes of data that cover events leading up to this year.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the year 2017, Equifax experienced a massive data breach leading to the leak of social security numbers, DOBs, addresses, contact info, and other details of nearly 150 million people. The post Equifax Data Breach Settlement of $20,000 per Victim appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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