Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2020

GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, threat actors might have compromised their web hosting account credentials. GoDaddy has been notifying its customers of a data breach, attackers might have compromised users’ web hosting account credentials. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its managed WordPress customer accounts. GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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Hacking Data breaches Banking Small Business 77

Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

Volkswagen America discloses a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal details of more than 3.3 Volkswagen America discloses a data breach suffered by a third-party vendor used by the car vendor for sales and marketing purposes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak).

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Data breaches Marketing Insurance Hacking 126

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

19 million Canadians are estimated to have been affected by data breaches between late 2018 and 2019, slightly more than half the population of the country. . Data breach reports have nearly sextupled since PIPEDA went into effect, with 446 incidents between November 2018 and June 2019. Read more here.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

million Texas drivers has been exposed in a data breach caused by a human error. The company disclosed this security breach this week, data was stored on an unsecured external storage service and they were accessed by an external party. ” states the data breach notification published by the software provider.

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Data breaches Insurance Accountability Software 130

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019.

Data breaches 121

Data breaches Identity Theft Advertising Scams 121

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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Data breaches Media Manufacturing Education 96

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.] 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.

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Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 190

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. SecurityAffairs – hacking, T-Mobile). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications Wireless 138

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, See Tickets).

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Data breaches Banking Malware Hacking 94

Adam Levin

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The hacker allegedly behind the Collection #1 and Collection #2 data breaches has claimed responsibility for the compromise of more than 200 million users of a popular iOS and Android gaming app. Zynga released a statement saying only that, “certain player account information may have been illegally accessed by outside hackers.

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Accountability Data breaches Passwords Hacking 178

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the IC3 Annual Report released in April 2019 financial losses reached $2.7 The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M. The cost of ransomware attacks accounts for 21 percent of the overall expenses, while the cost of malicious insider accounts for 15 percent. billion in 2018.

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Cybercrime Small Business Data breaches Mobile 131

Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

With all that transpired over the last few months, and even with the SolarWinds cyberattack making headlines , it might be easy to forget that data breaches and hacks continue to expose the personal information of millions. This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Small Business Passwords 105

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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Hacking Banking Data breaches Advertising 89

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

What Data Was Leaked? Feedback message data contained Account id, feedback rating given, and users’ email addresses. Transaction data encompassed price, item purchased, time of purchase, payment provider, and in some cases IP address of the buyer. The AMT Games database leaked approximately 5.9

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Data breaches Accountability Mobile Phishing 109

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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Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications Wireless 100

Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. SEC insisted Cetera was responsible for exposing the personal data of more than 4,300 clients and customers between 2017 November and 2020 June. Often, hackers use phishing emails to target employees.

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Accountability Hacking Financial Services Data breaches 100

Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. 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. federal government portal without authorization.

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Hacking Government Media Accountability 247

Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. MGM Resorts (10.6

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Data breaches Social Engineering Antivirus Scams 252

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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Data breaches Passwords Media Internet 94

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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Accountability Hacking Financial Services Cybersecurity 90

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2019

In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Gnosticplayers revealed that he had access to data belonging to all Android and iOS game players who installed and signed up for the ‘Words With Friends’ game before 2nd September 2019.

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Accountability Hacking Data breaches Passwords 68

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed.

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Data breaches Accountability Advertising Encryption 57

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined US hotels group Marriott over the 2018 data breach that affected millions of customers worldwide. million) for multiple data breaches suffered by the company since 2018 that exposed the personal information of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Marriott).

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Data breaches Advertising Encryption Data privacy 131

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

Bad news for users of the Microsoft Outlook email service, hackers have compromised the Microsoft Support Agent to access their email accounts. Earlier this year, hackers breached Microsoft’s customer support portal and gained access to some email accounts registered with the Microsoft’s Outlook service.

Accountability 99

Accountability Hacking Data breaches Advertising 99

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Accountability 103

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. The breach was detected almost eight months ago, on June 28, 2019, with the delay being attributed to the increased complexity of the investigation caused by the attackers deleting activity logs.

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Data breaches Media Computers and Electronics Cyber Attacks 128

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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Passwords Data breaches Password Management Advertising 91

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users. New breach: XKCD had 562k accounts breached last month. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Data collection 86

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Click2Mail.com, a US Postal Service affiliate partner, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The US Postal Service affiliate partner Click2Mail has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of its users. The security breach was discovered on October 4, 2019.

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Data breaches Advertising Hacking Accountability 79

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about, this one eventually triggering an email to me just last week: Let's imagine you're the first person on the list; you get a notification from HIBP, you check out the paste and see your Hotmail account listed there alongside your Spotify password and the plan you're subscribed to.

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Hacking Passwords Accountability Data breaches 223

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The popular video streaming platform confirmed the security breach and is investigating it to determine the extent of the incident. We can confirm a breach has taken place. OBS users who have connected their Twitch account should also not need to take any action. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Data breaches Mobile Software Accountability 97

Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacking Data breaches Advertising Backups 109

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.

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Data breaches Advertising Accountability Hacking 78

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 SecurityAffairs – Emuparadise, hacking). million Emuparadise forum members.

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