Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below the list of top data breaches that took place in the last 12 months: May 2020 – CAM4 adult cam site leaked 11B database records including emails, private chats.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

International ticketing services company See Tickets disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ payment card details. Ticketing service company See Tickets disclosed a data breach, and threat actors might have accessed customers’ payment card details. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 Million accounts back in April 2018. The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 At the time of writing, it is not known how DeHashed obtained the huge trove of data.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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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. 78% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

million patients have been impacted by a health care data breach so far in 2021, a whopping 185% increase from the same time period last year where just 7.9 Malicious cyberattacks caused the majority of these security incidents, accounting for 73% of all breaches. More than 22.8 trillion, by 2025, a 75% increase.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

GandCrab dissolved in July 2019, and is thought to have become “ REvil ,” one of the most ruthless and rapacious Russian ransomware groups of all time. In April 2020, Truniger was banned from two of the top Russian cybercrime forums, where members from both forums confirmed that Semen7907 was one of Truniger’s known aliases.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

As people conduct more and more business online — both in their personal and professional lives — cybercrime has become big business, more organized and well-funded than ever. With the acceleration in digital spending, there’s been an increase in related cyberthreats, like account takeover. billion in 2021 when compared with 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence that two million credit and debit card numbers belonging to the company’s customers were being sold in the cybercrime underground. In a statement posted to its Web site today, Orlando, Fla. and Mixology in Los Angeles.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The hacker behind the 2019 Capital One data breach has been sentenced to time served and five years probation by the U.S. In 2019, 37-year-old Paige Thompson, a former Amazon employee known by her online nickname "erratic," was arrested after Capital One alerted the FBI of her hacking activity.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. In August 2019, the company said a third-party investigation into the exposure identified just 32 consumers whose non-public personal information likely was accessed without authorization.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

The websites were informed by some affected TrueFire customers which shared details the data breach notification they received from the company. reads the Notice Of Data Breach. TrueFire is requesting users to change passwords for their accounts. SecurityAffairs – TrueFire, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. The back of the napkin math isn’t pretty.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the digital age, having a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is now just as crucial to organizational success as accounting, sales, marketing and other core business functions. In fact, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projects that by 2021: Global cybercrime costs could total approximately $6 trillion in the US. lost more than $3.5

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

Twilio hackers also compromised the food delivery firm DoorDash, the attackers had access to company data, including customer and employee info. On-demand food delivery service DoorDash disclosed a data breach, the threat actors behind the Twilio hack gained access to the company’s data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. On the evening of Monday, Jan. million merchant locations are now accepting chip cards.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 24, 2021

A credit report monitoring service can allow you to receive alerts for activity such as new account applications, the opening of new accounts and changes in personally identifiable information (PII). With more than a billion records exposed by data breaches so far, millions of people are falling victim to identity theft every year.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million more.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

On September 30th, 2019, the financial institution began sending out data breach notifications to the impacted, the notice informed them that the former employee potentially used the data for fraudulent activities, including identity theft and financial frauds. ” reads the data br each notification.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that the volume and magnitude of high-profile data breaches and ransomware attacks that punctuated 2019 really kept the cybersecurity industry on its toes. Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Truth be told: cybercrimes against students continue to rise, especially against those who report to university campuses and use university resources. According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. It goes deeper.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. The report contains analysis from 16,312 security incidents, of which 5,199 were confirmed breaches.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 8 security breaches available for sale. Million email accounts without permission.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Decathlon Spain data leak exposed Spanish employees’ data & more. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

The researchers discovered the unsecured database in December 2019. SecurityAffairs – financial documents, cybercrime). Advantage and Argus seem to be the same company working under two different names, they offer funding and startup capital to business owners without access to traditional lending and financial services.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. Considering the many ways cybercriminals target employees and the costs of cybercrime to employers, it’s a wise investment.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

According to the ongoing investigation, threat actors had access to the data of some of the Company’s customers who transacted with the Company prior to March 2019. The attack caused disruptions at some of the company’s properties, however, the incident did not expose any customer bank account numbers or payment card details.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

On the plus side, months of quarantine have massively decreased demand for account information that thieves buy and use to create physical counterfeit credit cards. The economic laws of supply and demand hold just as true in the business world as they do in the cybercrime space.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

. “We have discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). There may also be additional affected accounts that have not been identified yet.” ” reads a data breach notification published by Binance. ” reads a data breach notification published by Binance.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What it does mean is when China violates our criminal laws and international norms, we will hold them accountable for it.” DOJ officials praised Equifax for their “close collaboration” in sharing data that helped investigators piece together this whodunnit. ” A copy of the indictment is available here.

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