Adam Levin

JULY 22, 2019

Equifax has reached a settlement for the 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and personal information of nearly 150 million people. for a data breach, it has drawn heavy criticism for being too lenient. The proposed deal with the U.S. 175 million of the proposed fine would be paid to U.S.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. Compounding the confusion, on Sept.

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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 Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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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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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Fortnite Scams: What Parents Need to Know IdentityIQ Since the summer of 2017, Fortnite Battle Royale has been one of the most popular games in the world. Unfortunately, offering financial information exposes players to scams, potentially resulting in identity theft. What is a Fortnite Scam?

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Identity IQ

MARCH 22, 2021

86 on the list for an outstanding 251% growth between 2017 and 2019. IDIQ offers the IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands for credit report and identity theft monitoring and the DataBreachIQ® brand for business data breach preparation and response support. Born of the annual Inc. IDIQ earned the rank of No.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

August is two-thirds of the way through year, and we have already seen a number of serious, far-reaching data breaches making headlines, some occurred in 2018, and some from 2017 that are now being disclosed. When it comes to data breach notification laws, things can get tricky and complex, varying state-by-state.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM Bank , a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. based ICBA Bancard Inc.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 17, 2021

Temecula, California; August 17, 2021 – IDIQ ®, a leader in the identity theft and credit monitoring industry and producer of IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands, announced today it achieved the rank of No. Businesses are ranked by revenue growth between 2017 and 2020. 722 on the 2021 Inc. Each year Inc. 722 overall on the Inc.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2021

Breach fatigue is a real concern for cybersecurity leaders who are trying to communicate that security is everyone's responsibility. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken. After all, how bad could it really be?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. In response to the security breach, the United States subsidiary of HSBC blocked access to online accounts to prevent abuses. Security Affairs – HSBC bank, data breach).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit monitoring service offered by a top competitor — Experian.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

On January 4, 2017, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), located in Cleveland, Ohio, became aware of an infection on more than 100 of its computers. On January 10 2017, and unaware of this ongoing investigation, Malwarebytes became aware of the Mac version of the malware that would become known as FruitFly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

The restaurant chain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen suffered a payment card breach, hackers hacked the company network between Nov. 3, 2017 and Jan. Once again here we are to discuss of a data breach suffered by a restaurant chain this time the victim is Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. 3, 2017 and Jan.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Breach fatigue is a real concern for cybersecurity leaders who are trying to communicate that security is everyone's responsibility. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken. After all, how bad could it really be?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

And as we saw with Equifax’s consolidated class-action settlement in response to letting state-sponsored hackers from China steal data on nearly 150 million Americans back in 2017 , class-actions and more laughable “free credit monitoring” services from the very same companies that created the problem aren’t going to cut it.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen, 37, and Nicole Milan, 31, are described as two habitual offenders, responsible for multiple felonies, including one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

A freeze makes it much harder for identity thieves to open new lines of credit in your name. In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. Consumers in every U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2019

Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. ” Again, the existing breach settlement page is light on specifics there. . per victim, right? .

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". 1 November 2017. Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. The company's incident response after the breach was similarly damaging. Before the.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The oldest entry goes as far back as 2017, and it is unclear how long this instance had been open prior to the Cybernews discovery. The 3.9GB-strong database held information from 2017 onwards. Data breach monitoring platform Breachsense has indexed over 25 billion leaked credentials. Proper encryption is key.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Expectations around how corporate America responds to and communicates around data breaches has evolved significantly over the past two decades,” said T.J. When a data breach is discovered, the heat is on the IS/IT department(s) and, in many organizations, there is a culture of blame,” said Winick. Here is a sampling.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

MSF had Jim fill out an affidavit claiming the loan was the result of identity theft, which necessitated filing a report with the local police and a number of other steps. Then in mid-January, Jim heard from MSF via snail mail that they’d discovered a data breach.

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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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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in data breaches related to data stored in the cloud. This simplicity is what ultimately poses a danger to the owners of file repositories in AWS known as “buckets”, which are most often breached due to an incorrect system configuration.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 28, 2024

Human error remains one of the leading causes of security breaches. A study by Verizon in their 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involved a human element, such as social engineering, misuse of privileges, or simple mistakes. million compared to those with lower levels.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, “the number of publicly reported data compromises in the U.S. through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” Ransomware is not new, and it has been around for decades.A

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. This is valuable personal data that can be used for anything from targeted advertising to identity theft in extreme cases.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

One particularly alarming breach tracked by HUNTER analysts led to the leak of 6.8 million voter records related to the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election on the ‘eleakstore,’ and on the Hydra Market cybercriminal forums in TOR network. A database containing over 2.3

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More niche examples of doxing include: Breach Doxing : the unintentional dropping of documents via a data breach or leak. Personal details about users – whether inadvertently available on social media or through a data breach on a long inactive account – are everywhere, giving persistent threat actors plenty to utilize.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2017 is designed to ensure the privacy and security of sensitive personal information. It applies to any organization that manages data of 10,000 or more U.S. It was enacted to prevent and mitigate identity theft, provide notice of security breaches, and enhance law enforcement assistance.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Federal Trade Commission announced today that Equifax will pay $575 million in its settlement over the credit bureau's 2017 breach. The allegations hold that Equifax's failure to take reasonable steps to secure its network led to a data breach in 2017 that affected approximately 147 million people.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Federal Trade Commission announced today that Equifax will pay $575 million in its settlement over the credit bureau's 2017 breach. The allegations hold that Equifax's failure to take reasonable steps to secure its network led to a data breach in 2017 that affected approximately 147 million people.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

Federal Trade Commission announced today that Equifax will pay $575 million in its settlement over the credit bureau's 2017 breach. The allegations hold that Equifax's failure to take reasonable steps to secure its network led to a data breach in 2017 that affected approximately 147 million people.

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