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Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

Krebs on Security

In March 2020, Finastra suffered a ransomware attack that sidelined a number of the company’s core businesses for days. The simplest explanation is that something spooked abyss0 enough for them to abandon a number of pending sales opportunities, in addition to a well-manicured cybercrime persona.

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Dental group lied through teeth about data breach, fined $350,000

Malwarebytes

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. In October 2020, Westend Dental was attacked by the Medusa Locker ransomware group.

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The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. Here's what I know: Back in Feb, Dehashed reached out to me with a massive trove of data that had been left exposed on a major cloud provider via a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance.

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Japanese telecom giant NTT suffered a data breach that impacted 18,000 companies

Security Affairs

A data breach suffered by the Japanese telecom giant NTT exposed information of nearly 18,000 corporate customers. Japanese telecom giant NTT suffered a data breach that exposed information of nearly 18,000 corporate customers. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company.

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2020 Data Breaches Point to Cybersecurity Trends for 2021

Lohrman on Security

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Government contractor Conduent disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

Conduent suffered another security breach in 2020 by the Maze ransomware gang, which stole corporate data. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach)

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2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches

Adam Levin

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. The post 2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches appeared first on Adam Levin.