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. million guests were exposed.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Have you ever wondered why your email address and other information appeared in a data breach impacting a platform you never signed up for? and River City Media data breaches. Who is Verifications.io, and what information was exposed in the data breach? Was your personal data exposed in a data breach?

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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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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

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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Cerebral has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive consumer data, as well as require it to provide consumers with a simple way to cancel services. Protecting yourself from a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2019

Last year was a big year in the world of information security with data privacy issues, new regulations and several high-profile data breaches. Now that 2019 has arrived, what should corporations be doing to comply with the various data security and privacy regulations?

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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. In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today. We found that of the websites we scanned, 1.4%

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. A little more surprising, however, is the similarities between breaches across industries and organizations. Lack of Appropriate Authentication/Credentials for Sensitive Data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019. The data breach was first reported by Risk Based Security last week, since then, Quidd has never disclosed any data breach recent security incident.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before. The theme of this year’s conference is “Better” which certainly makes sense.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2022

online store PulseTV disclosed a potential credit card data breach, more than 200,000 customers have been impacted. online store PulseTV has disclosed a credit card data breach that has impacted more than 200,000 customers. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Take the WhatsApp data breach of 2019, where hackers got the personal data of 1.5 They send more messages when they know the account is active and possibly interested.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In other words, cybercriminals succeeded in getting access to a number of 23andMe accounts where users had used the same password on both 23andMe and a website that had suffered a data breach. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2022

Microsoft says that we need to ditch passwords forever to stay safe online as there are 921 password attacks taking place every second all over the world that have doubled from 463 in the year 2019. But Microsoft Authenticator app doesn’t offer such troubles. percent of accounts from being compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

. “It appears that someone was able to breach the server through a shell in avatar uploading in the forum software and get access to our current database dating April 2, 2020,” said Ace. The data breach notice discovered by the data breach monitoring service Under the Breach.

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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.

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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. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Experts from The Record, which downloaded and analyzed the data to verify its authenticity, confirmed that leaked into includes platform’s user identity and authentication mechanisms along with payout schemes for its top streamers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Thank you for bearing with us.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been around for a while now and for the majority of tech users in the US and UK , it has became a security staple. Indeed, wake up calls brought about by data breaches have stirred others out of their comfort zones into finally adopting 2FA and making it part of their online lives.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 23, 2021

The researchers’ paper, entitled “PrivateDrop: Practical Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Apple AirDrop” , details what it describes as “two severe privacy vulnerabilities in the underlying authentication protocol” used by AirDrop. billion devices worldwide being potentially vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud services provider Rackspace confirmed that the recent data breach was the result of the Play Ransomware gang’s attack. Cloud services provider Rackspace announced this week that the recent data breach was the result of an attack conducted by the Play ransomware group.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

customers of Callaway, the American sports equipment maker best known for its golf equipment and accessories, had their personal data compromised in an early-August data breach. Stealthbits commented on the breach through a blog post by its Director of Threat Intelligence, Kevin Beaumont. More than 1.1 million U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Every breach is different, so check with the vendor to find out what's happened, and follow any specific advice they offer. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Check the vendor's advice. Change your password.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

This information would be used to help reset passwords or unlock accounts, as well as enabling two-factor authentication (2FA). Between 2014 and 2019, over 140 million users provided a phone number or email address after Twitter informed its users this information would be used for security purposes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” “ Sanixer “) from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

According to the data breach notification published by the company, hackers stole 342,000 in Ethereum (ETH), approximately $48.5 “At 1:06 PM on November 27, 2019, 342,000 ETH (approximately 58 billion won) were transferred from the Upbeat Ethereum Hot Wallet to an unknown wallet. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion lost to fraud in 2019. These are seven of the ways the FTC says your personal data can land in the wrong hands, possibly leading to identity theft, and the best steps you can take to help protect your information: Data breaches. But it doesn’t take a data breach to lose your SSN. Review your bills.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Organizations with weak cybersecurity have been severely punished with cyber-attacks, data breaches, and huge losses in the past. According to Varonis and RiskBased, over 4 billion records were illegally accessed through data breaches in 2019. Password managers and two-factor authentication.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

“There are primarily three ways you can authenticate someone: with their username and password, with two-factor authentication, and with a company-supplied device that you can trace. For critical applications and environments with sensitive data (e.g., For most stuff, you should have two of those things.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote about Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era. This wasn't so much an original work on my behalf as it was a consolidation of advice from the likes of NIST, the NCSC and Microsoft about how we should be doing authentication today. Thanks everyone! Going live with it tomorrow.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

Stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, as well as financial data (i.e. “On May 3, 2019, an unauthorized third party gained access to our database, which we discovered on May 17, 2019. The unauthorized third party was able to acquire information that was in our database on May 3, 2019.

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