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CafePress faces $500,000 fine for data breach cover up

Malwarebytes

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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UK ICO fines hotel chain giant Marriott over data breach

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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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Ransomware Attack Leads to a data breach at Chicago Public Schools

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Investigations later launched revealed that hackers accessed data stored from the past 4 years and in the incident and that included information such as names, schools, DoBs, CPS Identification Numbers, and state student identification numbers along with class schedule information and scores of the CPS Pupils.

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Email Verifiers and Data Breaches. What You Need to Know.

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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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Cosmolog Kozmetik Data Breach: Hundreds of Thousands of Customers impacted

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This breach exposed users’ names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, order details, and more. Hundreds of thousands of users were compromised in the breach. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. What’s Happening?

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Carnival confirms data breach as a result of the August ransomware attack

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Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the august ransomware attack. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the ransomware attack that took place in August.

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How to check if your data was exposed in the AT&T breach

Malwarebytes

AT&T has notified US state authorities and regulators about its recent (or not) data breach, saying 51,226,382 people were affected. For those that have missed the story so far: Back in 2021, a hacker named Shiny Hunters claimed to have breached AT&T.