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. The exposure of email addresses presents risk of phishing attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Rest assured, that long-overdue change will be coming soon in 2019. Below are some of the most-read and commented-on enterprise stories throughout 2018, a year marked by a relentless onslaught of data breaches, data leaks and increasingly sneaky scams. What the Marriott Breach Says About Security.

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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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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. 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.

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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. 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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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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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2024

The incident impacted individuals who received services from MediSecure between March 2019 and November 2023. The threat actors stole 6.5TB of data from a company’s server. The company warns that the stolen data can be used to carry out scams, phishing attacks, and identity theft against Australians.

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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 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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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Illustration of what a MiTM phishing would look like. Source: Kondracki, et al). Source: The Record by Recorded Future).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

While Capital One incident is making the headlines, another incident may have severe consequences, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) also suffered a data breach. SecurityAffairs – LAPD, data breach). The post LAPD data breach exposes personal info of thousands of officers appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

In a sampling of the player profile data, the WizCase security team found that users could spend as much as $907 on the game via in-app microtransactions in the 10,000-player sample from 2019-2020 our team observed. Though most email clients have methods to block spam and phishing attempts, they are not 100% effective.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

million patients have been impacted by a health care data breach so far in 2021, a whopping 185% increase from the same time period last year where just 7.9 The health care sector saw over 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 451,792 emails. of all phishing attacks were business email compromise attempts, and just 2.2%

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2024

The incident impacted individuals who received services from MediSecure between March 2019 and November 2023. The threat actors stole 6.5TB of data from a company’s server. The company warns that the stolen data can be used to carry out scams, phishing attacks, and identity theft against Australians.

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Data breaches Unstructured Data Healthcare Identity Theft 98

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

Earlier this week, vice.com reported that hackers are phishing workers at major U.S. telecommunications companies to gain access to internal company tools. telecom companies to take over customer cell phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

Paying attention to cybersecurity is more important than ever in 2019. But, they also try to gain people’s credentials through phishing attacks, lock down their systems with ransomware or infiltrate poorly secured connected devices to name but a few possibilities. Security Affairs – 2019 Cybersecurity predictions, cyberattacks).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2025

CISA adds Apple products and Microsoft Windows NTLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Entertainment venue management firm Legends International disclosed a data breach China-linked APT Mustang Panda upgrades tools in its arsenal Node.js

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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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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. No data is old data. The Ashley Madison data breach is a good example. However, users shouldn’t bet on it.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Social Engineering Media 133

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. With the high amount of cybercriminal activity including hacking attempts and phishing scams, the information in this report is quite timely. In comparison, phishing/smishing/vishing cases accounted for $500 in losses per complaint.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. ” reads a “ Notice of Data Breach” sent to users impacted and shared by BleepingComputer. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. Other web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome already warn users about compromised passwords since October 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

Booking.com, an online travel agency has been fined €475,000 for not reporting the data breach within the stipulated time frame crafted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The post Dutch company booking.com fined €558,000 for serious data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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. All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. The Principle of Least Privilege.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization was hacked during the Christmas holiday and the attackers later used its email server to launch a phishing campaign against its donors. link] — Casey Vattimo (@CVattimo) December 27, 2019. “Friends, Boo! As you may have noticed, our email server was temporarily hacked.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

“The company has robust internal processes and a system of advanced security technology in place to detect phishing attempts and protect itself from such attacks. Another curious, if only coincidental, development: On April 4, 2019, the government of India sold “enemy” shares in Wipro worth approximately $166 million.

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Insurance Healthcare Technology Cyber threats 279

Webroot

AUGUST 6, 2021

The steady stream of cyberattacks seen throughout 2019 turned into a torrent over the last year – ransomware, phishing scams and data breaches are now at an all-time high. But with cyberattacks at an all-time high, 63% of companies have kept their cybersecurity trainings at the same level that it was at the end of 2019.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Regular readers will appreciate the mechanics of this already but all those who I point here for whom this is new, this attack simply takes exposed credentials from a data breach and tries them on another site. Spotify "breaches" like this are enormously common. Or they entered it into a phishing site somewhere.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For starters, the Web site that Equifax set up to let consumers check if they were affected by the breach consistently gave conflicting answers, and was initially flagged by some Web browsers as a potential phishing site. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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