Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

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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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Dark Reading

JANUARY 15, 2020

million as breach compensation and spend another $1 billion on transforming its information security over the next five years. The 147 million US consumers affected by the breach have one week from today to file a claim. Company agrees to set aside a minimum of $380.5

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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

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

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The defendants have also attempted to extort money from the companies requesting them to pay ‘bug bounties’ to avoid publicly disclose the data breaches. In 2017 the FTC charged the company for deceiving customers with its privacy and data security practices. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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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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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Department of Justice just filed federal charges against Uber's former Chief Security Offier (CSO) for allegedly covering up a company data breach and bribing hackers to stay silent about the attack. SecureWorld wrote about this case in Uber Data Breach: 3 Things Revealed in Testimony to Congress.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018. Securi ty Affairs – data breached, hacking). billion records.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We hope that your business is never victim of a security or data breach. But, with some studies suggesting [updated for 2017] that not only are data breaches increasingly common, but increasingly expensive as well, it’s important to prepare. Data breaches won’t go away. Try to hide or bury it.

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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

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Attackers also obtained portions of credit card customer data, including: .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015, . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“SCHULTE’s theft is the largest data breach in the history of the CIA, and his transmission of that stolen information to WikiLeaks is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the U.S.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach, attackers have stolen the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. has suffered a data breach, threat actors exploited a now-fixed bug in their website to steal the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Security experts from Cyble reported that a threat actor is attempting to sell twenty-nine databases on a hacker forum since May 7. Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. million January 2017 CafeMom.com 2.6 million N/A EatStreet.com 6.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The software engineer Tillie Kottmann was informed by an anonymous source that the Git server was exposed online and accessible to anyone using the default login credentials admin/admin. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially thought, a hacker is offering for sale details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web. Bad news for the guests of the MGM Resorts, the 2019 data breach suffered by the company is much larger than initially reported. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. The marketing firm Apollo.io

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. ” reads a “ Notice of Data Breach” sent to users impacted and shared by BleepingComputer. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2020

US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over 2019 data breach. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has imposed an $80 million fine to the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp over 2019 data breach.

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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. The university was notified by an undisclosed third party, who provided information to help the team find and identify the malware. This can take years, however.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The database contains personally-identifiable and subscription information for 44,000,000 Pakistanis, including customer full names, home addresses (city, region, street name), National identification (CNIC) numbers, mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, and dates of subscription. – Database apparently got hacked in 2017.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In September 2017, Equifax Inc. According to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, the Equifax data breach is one of the largest hacking case ever uncovered of this type. ” The Equifax hack was caused by the exploitation of the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

More clients of Capital One have been impacted in the 2019 data breach, the US bank is notifying them of their SSNs exposure. US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. District Court in Seattle.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

In 2017, the credit reporting agency Equifax suffered a massive data breach, attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability. . Apache Struts 2 is an open-source, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017). It encompasses a range of electromagnetic radio waves utilized for wireless information transmission. IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’ve seen similar vulnerabilities exploited before in breaches like the 2017 Equifax data breach. rc1), but security researchers already discovered a bypass and urge impacted organizations to updating to the latest RC build log4j-2.15.0-rc2. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of the largest data breaches, including the ones that affected Last.fm , Rambler.ru , FriendFinder Networks , LinkedIn , and MySpace.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

There’s no way to eliminate security vulnerabilities completely, so it’s our shared responsibility as a global information security industry to implement approaches to hunt and fix them swiftly. Organizations should pay more attention to international and country-level guidelines on information security best practices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The code also contained an access key to the data server that stored customer info, such as email addresses and management numbers. An unauthorized third party could have had access to the details of Toyota customers between December 2017 and September 15, 2022. The source code was leaked by a development subcontractor.

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