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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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” The CJH noticed suspicious email activity in June 2020. Computer forensic specialists determined that the attackers gained access to employee email accounts for nearly three months, between April 1 and June 25. The medical facility learned of the breach in December. Were you a victim of a data breach?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. The company is offering to the impacted individuals free fraud detection and identity theft protection through Equifax’s Complete Premier services for two years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Now News Corp revealed that the threat actor behind the security breach first gained a foothold in the company infrastructure in February 2020. ” reads the data breach notification letters sent to employees and published by BleepingComputer. As soon as we became aware of the activity, we notified U.S.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. Now, 2,565 patients of addiction treatment center Alina Lodge are being notified that their data was compromised during the massive vendor incident more than a year ago.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. On April 20, 2020, Cognizant learned that the attackers staged and likely exfiltrated a limited amount of data from Cognizant’s systems. ” reads the notice of data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This was revealed in a 2022 Consumer Impact report released by Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Tuesday this week. Astonishingly, most of the information steals cases where or are yet to be solved and surged to 55% from 30% between 2020 to 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. I’m going to speculate that the sudden shift to work-from-home in 2020 has led to quick decisions to meet immediate needs.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

The attack first came to light on a Twitter account @ und0xxed that rolled out details of the breach. After that, they shifted focus to T-Mobile’s LAN and then to more than 100 Oracle databases that held user data. The data was taken from two T-Mobile data centers. Hackers Get In Via GSSN. million to $4.24

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? Whose Data was Exposed and What Are the Consequences. Identity theft. How and Why We Discovered the Breach.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

According to the report , in 2020 the IC3 received 19,369 business email compromise (BEC) / email account compromise (EAC) complaints “with adjusted losses of over $1.8 million in 2020. Losses registered in 2020 totaled $4.2 On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Researchers uncovered a possible credential stuffing campaign that is targeting Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million login credentials. Security experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a possible credential stuffing operation that affected some Spotify accounts. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 2 November 2020 vpnMentor experts discovered that the 21 Buttons app was using a misconfigured AWS bucket that has exposed the data of hundreds of influencers. “The company was storing over 50 million pieces of data from the app on a misconfigured AWS cloud storage bucket. .” 2020 Date of Response: 22nd Dec.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. The new direct deposit information generally routes to a pre-paid card account.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The leaked records include Clubhouse user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter handles, Instagram handles, number of followers, number of people followed by the users, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names. Financial data was not included in the data leak. Source CyberNews. photo URLs.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to BlueVoyant’s Cybersecurity in Higher Education 2021 report , ransomware attacks on colleges increased twofold between 2019 and 2020. They have large student populations with fresh credit histories, plus alumni and employee data. They have large student populations with fresh credit histories, plus alumni and employee data.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Vary login credentials across accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The leak comes more than four months after Humana, the third-largest health insurance company in the US, notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach where “a subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorized individuals” between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A particularly big corporate weakness is a widespread lack of broad and thorough Incident Response Plans (IRPs) – specific directions for dealing with specific attack scenarios to mitigate damage and reduce breach recovery time and clean-up costs. Breached accounts must also be disconnected and targeted departments shut down.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. billion records.” ” concludes the experts.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Insider cyber-attacks are among the fastest growing threats in the modern security network, an increasingly common cause of data breaches. Using their authorized access, employees are intentionally or inadvertently causing harm by stealing, exposing, or destroying sensitive company data. Data privacy is getting personal .

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

“That medical histories were accessed in this data hack makes this situation unique,” Scott Cole, the principal attorney on the case, said in a statement. Despite hundreds of data breaches every year in this country, most do not involve such highly sensitive patient information as was obtained here.”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The massive trove of emails was left on a publicly accessible Amazon AWS server, allowing anyone to download and access the data. This is a huge leak even by today’s standards, with an average of 7 million records being exposed daily in 2020. . Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible.

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SiteLock

DECEMBER 7, 2021

According to IBM , the average total cost of a data breach in 2021 was $4.24 In fact, the Identity Theft Resource Center found that by September 30, 2021, the number of reported data compromises in 2021 had already exceeded the number of compromises throughout 2020. million, a 10% increase year over year.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. In 2018, Experian settled a class-action lawsuit for $22 million. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

All of this data is conveniently stored in spreadsheet format that can be easily opened, read, and downloaded by anyone who knows what to look for. The exposed data was hosted on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) server and located in the US. Who had access? Original post available on Cybernews: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With 2020 being the worst year on record in terms of files exposed in data breaches , a thorough security approach is necessary to combat modern dangers. Hastily implemented cloud data processes and security needs failing to keep pace with tech innovations have left financial data exposed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. Unsecured databases exposed for years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

It’s still entirely too easy to steal someone’s credentials, which is why identity theft continues to be a primary cause of data breaches. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. Cyberattacks designed to steal identity are on the rise.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Your password for each of your accounts needs to be difficult to guess and unpredictable. That’s why maintaining password integrity helps protect our online lives and reduces the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or data loss.

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