CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A recent study made by Javelin Strategy & Research says that the annual loss incurred through Child Identity Theft and Fraud in United States is $1 billion worth. The 2021 Child Identity Fraud report clearly states that all those children above 10 are found using online services these days and from them over 1.25

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. ” reads the data breach notification.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files. The company added that the data breach impacted some Nissan customers, dealers, and current and former employees.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2022

SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. Currently, there is no evidence that the stolen details were used/being used in any of the identity theft campaigns.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2022

A Michigan based American bank named Flagstar Bank has sent notification to almost all its customers about a data breach that took place in December last year. As of now, there is no evidence of data misuse or information sale on the web. The impact details are yet to be known. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

McLaren Health Care (McLaren) experienced a data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of approximately 2.2 McLaren Health Care (McLaren) disclosed a data breach that occurred between late July and August. The security breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 2,192,515 people.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

American pizza chain California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) suffered a data breach that might have exposed personal information of its employees. American pizza chain California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) suffered a data breach, the company has already notified employees whose personal information might have been exposed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Utah-based radiology medical center Utah Imaging Associates discloses a data breach that impacted 583,643 former and current patients. Utah Imaging Associates (UIA) discloses a security breach, on September 4, 2021 the company claims to have detected and blocked a cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 20, 2021

Campbell Conroy & O’Neil’s law firm has issued a public statement early today that it was a victim of a ransomware attack on February 27th,2021 and the incident could have led to a potential data breach that is under serious investigation.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are the Top Ten IdentityIQ Topics of 2021. Supply chain issues, inflation, a red-hot housing market, labor shortages and data breaches are just a few of the topics that affected our credit and personal finances. As the end of the year is approaching, we’re compiling our most searched and read topics of 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2021

Insurance giant CNA notifies customers of a data breach after the Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack suffered in March. US insurance giant CNA is notifying customers of a data breach after the ransomware attack that it suffered in March. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Earlier this month, UMass Memorial Health alerted patients who were affected by the hospital data breach. In a notice to affected patients, the hospital disclosed that an unauthorized person accessed employee emails between June 2020 and January 2021 but was unable to say the level to which the emails were viewed.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their email system. “Based on our investigation, we determined that a threat actor infiltrated EWA email on August 2, 2021. The experts at the company believe that the attackers attempted wire fraud.

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 1, 2020

the scammers get these details from massive data breaches, such as the Equifax breach. The most likely way in which you’ll learn that you’ve fallen victim to the identity theft-based unemployment insurance scam is by receiving an unsolicited debit card in the mail. I believe in this scheme.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Revolut that offers payment processing technology was targeted by a phishing attack recently, leading to data breach of thousands of customers from Lithuania and Europe. Confirmed sources suggest the data breach occurred from a phishing attack that could have taken place in August this year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2022

IKEA has admitted that its Canadian wing has become a victim of a large data breach that could have spilled personal details of approximately 95,000 customers to hackers. Identity of those behind the incident is still unknown.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2022

Security practitioners looking back on 2021 may see it as the year attackers shifted their focus from identity theft to identity fraud. That’s according to Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), after the organization released its annual data breach report. “In

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

million patients affected by a data breach. million patients affected by its nine-year data breach, first reported in 2019. The security incident was the second-largest breach reported to the Department of Health and Human Services that year. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Broward Health public health system disclosed a massive data breach that has impacted more than 1.3 The Broward Health public health system has suffered a data breach that impacted 1,357,879 individuals. Broward Health discovered the intrusion on October 19, 2021.” million individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

On August 17th, 2021, a 21-year-old American posted his identity on Twitter and admitted that he was behind the T-Mobile Cyber Attack where he used an unprotected router on internet to gain access to the database of the US Telecommunications provider.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Kroger is notifying customers of a data breach, two months after the supermarket chain’s file transfer service Accellion disclosed a cyberattack. According to a data breach security notification, the incident did not impact Kroger’s IT systems directly, and no financial information of customers was compromised.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

American clothing brand and retailer Guess discloses a data breach after the February ransomware attack and is notifying the affected customers. In February, American fashion brand Guess was hit by a ransomware attack, now the company is disclosing a data breach and is notifying affected customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Broward Health, a large healthcare system in South Florida, disclosed a data breach that impacts more than 1.3 Broward Health discovered the intrusion on October 19, 2021. What information was compromised in Broward Health data breach? million of its patients.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 8, 2022

SALT LAKE CITY–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Medical Review Institute of America (“MRIoA”), an organization providing clinical peer reviews, on behalf of some of its health plan, health care provider and other customers, is notifying certain individuals whose information was affected by a recent data security incident.

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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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Security Boulevard

APRIL 3, 2023

Cybersecurity breaches are a constant threat, and it’s only getting worse.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. That breach came to light after a hacker began selling the records on a cybercrime forum. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A sophisticated cyber attack launched on the visa website of French government has led to a data breach where sensitive info related to applicants such as nationalities, birth dates and passport numbers were exposed to hackers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 16, 2021

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, 2021 was a record year for data breaches. The post 4 Ways IP Data Can Help Fight Cybercrime appeared first on Security Boulevard. What’s more disturbing is that 78% of senior-level IT and IT security leaders—the people in the know—aren’t.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2024

The person selling the data claims it stems from a 2021 breach at AT&T. Back in 2021, a hacker named Shiny Hunters claimed to have breached AT&T and put the alleged stolen data up for sale for $1 million for a direct sell.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization “established to support victims of identity crime.” The recently released Data Breach Annual Report provides statistics and perspectives on cyberattacks. There were 1,862 individual breaches last year, surpassing 2020’s.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In light of this, I would urge any customers who have been affected by this breach to be wary of any unexpected communications they might now receive, whether that’s over email, text messages or phone calls. Data breaches continue to be a scourge of enterprises. million – was down 20 percent. million – was down 20 percent.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2022

online store PulseTV disclosed a potential credit card data breach, more than 200,000 customers have been impacted. online store PulseTV has disclosed a credit card data breach that has impacted more than 200,000 customers. ” reads the data breach notification letter. ” concludes the letter.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

16, 2021 – IDIQ , an industry leader in identity theft and credit report monitoring, has named Damian Bushnell the company’s new chief product officer. For more than two decades, Bushnell has been a technology and product leader in the consumer credit and identity theft protection industry. IdentityIQ.

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