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 records): Hackers successfully breached the accounts of two Marriott employees and compromised the PII of at least 5.2

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

I'll talk more about the last past of the trip then as well as those all new fresh 2021 data breaches I'm sure we'll have by Friday. Sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Pop quiz: What has been the most popular — and therefore least secure — password every year since 2013? If you answered “password,” you’d be close. Qwerty” is another contender for the dubious distinction, but the champion is the most basic, obvious password imaginable: “123456.”

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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

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 16, 2023

Samsung Electronics disclosed a data breach that exposed customer personal information to an unauthorized individual. Samsung Electronics suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of some of its customers to an unauthorized individual. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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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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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. The company collected 500 million passwords in total and the results were disconcerting. Adopt a password generator. Set up a password manager.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91M ($101M) after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. The DPC ruled that Meta was in violation of GDPR on several occasions related to this breach.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2024

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an increase of 1,170% over Q2 2023 (81,958,874 victims). Because both of these breaches were announced/updated in the second quarter of 2024 they have a huge impact on the numbers. Change your password.

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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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. “In limited instances, and only with respect to certain current employees, the unauthorized actor also used a piece of malware designed to steal login credentials and passwords,” continues the notice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2024

The online handle of the seller immediately raised the suspicion that this was yet another Snowflake related data breach. Post by Sp1d3r on breach forum The post also mentions Suntrust bank because Truist Bank arose after SunTrust Banks and BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company) merged in December 2019.

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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. Hunt added the data to the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website over the weekend.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

CafePress, the popular T-Shirt and merchandise website, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal details of 23 million of their customers. CafePress, the popular T-Shirt and merchandise website, disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal details of 23 million of their customers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

With respect to the balance of the data set, which includes personal information such as social security numbers, the source of the data is still being assessed. 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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Threat actors have proven to be endlessly clever at abusing and misusing passwords. So what’s stopping us from getting rid of passwords altogether? Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach. JGS — Virgin Media (@virginmedia) August 17, 2019 Ah, that one will never get old!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Users can check if their data have been exposed in the StreetEasy and Sephora data breaches. 87% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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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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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. pic.twitter.com/QKB7iUGu1W — Stewart Rand (@stewssr) January 31, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The news and social media aggregator Flipboard disclosed on Tuesday that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user information. Hackers had access to the company systems between June 2, 2018, and March 23, 2019, and again on April 21-22, 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking , data breach).

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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Also: Massive data breach exposes 184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more Individually, any one of those pieces of data can be exploited by the wrong people. The records are being linked to the same ones compromised by cybercriminals in a data breach that AT&T announced in July of 2024.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Hostinger , one of the biggest hosting providers, disclosed a recent security breach that allowed attackers to access a client database. The security breach took place on August 23 and may have impacted up to 14 million Hostinger customers. Latest Edit on 2019-08-25 17:43 UTC]” reads the announcement published by the company.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 “In April 2018, the self-proclaimed “biggest retro gaming website on earth”, Emupardise, suffered a date breach.”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation noti f ied the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. ” states MasterCard.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

DoorDash is a San Francisco–based on-demand food delivery service, the company confirmed it has suffered a data breach that exposed roughly 5 million users. DoorDash announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.9 Users can change their DoorDash password by visiting [link].

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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