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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mercedes).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[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. Abusewith[.]us

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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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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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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Related: Damage caused by ‘business logic’ hacking. This is according to Verizon’s latest 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report ( DBIR ). In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches. •A 2009 DBIR page 17) .

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows.

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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

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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In 2017 the FTC charged the company for deceiving customers with its privacy and data security practices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

2017 was a big year for malware, hacks, and data breaches. Voting machines proved to be easily hackable, Uber was caught paying off cybercriminals, and of course, Equifax experienced a breach that affected 140 million Americans.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Software company OSIsoft has suffered a data breach, the firm confirmed that all domain accounts have likely been compromised. Software company OSIsoft notified security breach to employees, interns, consultants, and contractors. ” reads the data breach notification. Below the data provided by the company.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The United States Department of Justice charged 4 Chinese military hackers with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. The United States Department of Justice officially charged 4 members of the China’s PLA’s 54th Research Institute, a division of the Chinese military, with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2016 data breach).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Fast forward to 2017.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Another South Korean cryptocurrency exchange was hacked, this time the victim is Upbit that lost $48.5 The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit disclosed a security breach, the company told its customers that hackers have stolen $48.5 SecurityAffairs – Upbit exchange, hacking). million in cryptocurrency. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2019

The data breach of Capital One was big news, but it was also a familiar story: a major financial company with the budget and means to secure its data didn’t bother to do so, and the personal information of over a hundred million of its customers and applicants was exposed. Cloudy with a Chance of Client Error.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 21, 2020

The FBI has seized the domain of WeLeakInfo.com, an online service that sold data from hacked and breached websites. The relative frequency and scope of data breaches over the last several years has created a secondary market for aggregated records.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. in 2017 totaled 1,579, a nearly 44.7 The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included a vulnerable app that could be exploited for malicious purposes. Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included dormant software that could be exploited by attackers to compromise them. ” reads the report. ” reads the report.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

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