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Top data breaches of 2020 – Security Affairs

Security Affairs

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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Samsung suffered a new data breach

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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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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. million customers of MGM Resorts was found posted on a hacking forum. MGM Resorts (10.6 Marriott (5.2

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Reading the 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report

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2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report: the global total cost of a data breach averaged $3.86 million in 2020, down about 1.5% This year the researchers analyzed 524 breaches that occurred between August 2019 and April 2020, in organizations of all sizes, across 17 geographies and 17 industries.

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Video game giant Ubisoft investigates reports of a data breach

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Video game publisher Ubisoft is investigating reports of an alleged data breach after popular researchers shared evidence of the hack. Ubisoft , the popular video game publisher, is examining reports of a potential data breach following the disclosure of evidence by prominent researchers vx-underground.

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Flagstar Bank suffered a data breach once again

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Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that their personal information was exposed after threat actors breached the third-party service provider Fiserv.

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City of Wichita disclosed a data breach after the recent ransomware attack

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The City of Wichita disclosed a data breach after the ransomware attack that hit the Kansas’s city earlier this month. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kimsuky) Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S.