Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Samsung Electronics has informed its customers about a data breach impacting those who shopped at the Samsung UK online store from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. This breach resulted in unauthorized access to personal information.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. The telecom giant had initially claimed that a large trove of personal data leaked on the Dark Web did not originate from their systems. million former account holders."

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Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a public statement, Samsung recently became aware of a cyber intrusion into its UK online store, which occurred between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020. This breach led to the theft of... The post Samsung Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of UK Customers appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Convenience store and gas station chain Wawa informed customers of a data breach that compromised payment card information at most of its 842 locations. The post Data Breach Compromises Payment Card Info At Wawa Stores appeared first on Adam Levin. In an announcement released December 19, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

T-Mobile discloses a new data breach that impacted a “very small number of customers” who were victim of SIM swap attacks. T-Mobile has suffered another security breach, threat actors gained access to the accounts of “a small number of” customers.’. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 3, 2020

Unauthorized access was the most common type of attack in 2019, and it was responsible for 40% of all data breaches, says ForgeRock.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a Consent Order against Capital One Bank including a civil money penalty for $80,000,000 from a data breach in 2019. The post Capital One Data Breach Update: Former Amazon Engineer Convicted appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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). million of its customers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

Like Kenny “NexusZeta” Schuchmann , who pleaded guilty in 2019 to operating the Satori botnet. Two other young men have been charged in connection with Satori — but not IntelSecrets. How do we know all this about IntelSecrets/IRDev/V0rtex? We did it to harm US infrastructure.”

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 13, 2021

The data breach of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has been attributed to the compromise of a third party file sharing service. “A The company has reportedly encouraged FTA users to update to a newer and more secure product since at least 2019.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it experienced a major data breach in June 2019 that has been traced back to a Chinese hacking group. “[O]ur The announcement from the electronics giant was released shortly after two Japanese newspapers, Nikkei and Asahi Shimbum reported on the breach.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 21, 2022

for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 14, 2019

Online invitation service Evite notified users about a data breach of user data that included names, usernames, email addresses, passwords, and mailing addresses. The company disclosed the breach following the release of the affected data on the dark web. Read Evite’s announcement here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2019, the United Nations released an estimate confirming that the North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong Un, had accumulated a staggering $2 billion by launching hacks on cryptocurrency firms and internationally recognized banks. These two news items highlight the concerning activities in the realm of cyber warfare and data breaches.

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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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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers. [.]

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report: the global total cost of a data breach averaged $3.86 from the 2019 study. Every year, I write about the annual report published by the Ponemon Institute on the cost of a data breach, it is a very interesting study that explores the economic impact of a “data breach.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2021

An independent security researcher reported on June 11th,2021 that a data breach on a cloud platform has leaked over 1.6 From 2019 the company has become a business subsidiary of German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG that is also into the joint development of Renault and Nissan automotive. .

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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

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.

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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

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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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

According to Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection: “CafePress employed careless security practices and concealed multiple breaches from consumers.”. CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. The breach.

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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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Heimadal Security

MARCH 3, 2021

The service provider notified the airline warning that data of the Enrich program was exposed to security breaches between March 2010 and June 2019. The post A Nine-Year-Long Data Breach was Disclosed by Malaysia Airlines appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sizable fines assessed for data breaches since 2019 suggest that regulators are getting more serious about organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Marriott was hit with a $124 million fine, later reduced, while Equifax agreed to pay a minimum of $575 million for its 2017 breach.

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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. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. What about data breaches?

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 16, 2021

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Pearson, a British multinational educational publishing and services company, has settled charges of mishandling the disclosure process for a 2018 data breach discovered in March 2019. [.].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2022

Ericsson, the Sweden-based Telecom Company that was involved in the 2019 money laundering case with a terrorist organization, seems to be serious about some of the internal documents being leaking to Swedish and international news outlets. More details on this story are awaited! .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Data breaches are increasingly common as organizations across the globe continue to wake up to the reality that it’s a question of when, not if, they will fall victim. In a 2020 report on cyber security breaches, the UK government revealed that nearly half (46%) of businesses experienced a breach between Q2 2019 and Q2 […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 24, 2022

WAWA, a convenience and retail store from Pennsylvania, has questioned the card giant MasterCard over its imposed penalty on data breach. Going deep into the details, in the year 2019, WAWA experienced a data breach in its customer payments database.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2021

The increasing number of third-party data breaches and the sensitive information they expose have negatively impacted consumer trust. Third-party breaches occur when sensitive data is stolen from a third-party vendor or when their systems are used to access and steal sensitive information stored on your systems. .

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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. million ($23.5 According to the U.K.’s

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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. ” reads the statement published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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