SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. RELATED: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

Like other mobile providers, T-Mobile is locked in a constant battle with scammers who target its own employees in SIM swapping attacks and other techniques to wrest control over employee accounts that can provide backdoor access to customer data. WHO HACKED T-MOBILE? How do we know all this about IntelSecrets/IRDev/V0rtex?

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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).

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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

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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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 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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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

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

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

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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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers since February. T-Mobile suffered the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers starting in late February 2023.

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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.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, See Tickets).

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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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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).

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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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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers — a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts — has been hacked. OGUsers was hacked at least twice previously, in May 2019 and again in March 2020. called Disco Payments. ”

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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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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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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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Graham Cluley

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Two men have been charged with hacking into computer networks in the United States, UK, other NATO countries, and Ukraine, on behalf of the Russian government. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers ). million subscribers at December 31, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. It is not the first time that Magellan and its subsidiaries suffer a data breach, in 2019 Magellan Rx Management , National Imaging Associates , and Magellan Healthcare subsidiaries were impacted by cyber attacks. SecurityAffairs – Magellan, hacking).

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. million customers of MGM Resorts was found posted on a hacking forum. MGM Resorts (10.6 Marriott (5.2 Marriott (5.2

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Cosmolog Kozmetik’s data breach made accessible over 5400 Excel files which exposed over 637,000 unique orders made by over 567,000 unique users on multiple e-commerce websites. However, no payment information such as credit card numbers were found in the data breach. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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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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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. SecurityAffairs – GoDaddy, data breach).

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