Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The threat actors claim the stolen database contains customer information, including names, emails, phone numbers, hashed passwords, and password salt.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 20, 2021

OpenWRT open-source project says someone used an administrator’s credentials to breach their forum and stole a list of list user names, email addresses, and various other statistical data. Forum data breaches are not uncommon, as threat actors take advantage of vulnerabilities or employ other methods to gain access.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

American technology company Ubiquiti Networks is disclosed a data breach and is notifying its customers via email. American technology vendor Ubiquiti Networks suffered a data breach and is sending out notification emails to its customers asking them to change their passwords and enable 2FA for their accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2021

US wireless carrier UScellular discloses data breach, personal information of customers may have been exposed and their phone numbers ported. US wireless carrier UScellular discloses a data breach that exposed personal information of its customers. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

GoDaddy WordPress data breach timeline. November 17, 2021: GoDaddy discovers unauthorized third-party access on Managed WordPress. GoDaddy determined that the incident began on September 6, 2021, and exposed data on 1.2 million active and inactive customers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security may have exposed the data of 820K customers. Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers. ” reads the notice of data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

UC San Diego Health, a California based healthcare service provider, reportedly suffered a data breach early this year, and it notified the 450,000 victims from September 7th, 2021. The post California Hospital data breach crisis deepens appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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. The post About 300,000 patient data leaked in data breach of SuperCare Health appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Russian subscription-based streaming service Start discloses a data breach affecting 7.5 The Russian media streaming platform START disclosed a data breach that impacted 7.5 ” Stolen data include email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames, while financial data were not exposed. million users.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

Air India disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 4.5 Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5 million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy has made it official that a data breach has occurred on its database in September this year leaking email addresses to hackers that could lead to phishing attacks in the future. The post GoDaddy data breach could lead to Phishing Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Korean based company that is into the business of perfume and clothes selling said that the data leak took place on August 8th, 2021 and was because of a cyber attack on a cloud based data storage firm. The post Data Breach on French Luxury brand Chanel appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

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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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

. “We recently determined that an unauthorized person breached a vendor’s system and gained access to your “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI).” ” reads a data breach communication sent by the company to the impacted customers. credit card data) or sensitive data (i.e. .”​

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

USCellular, a Chicago-based mobile network operator, has revealed a data breach incident affecting an undisclosed number of customers. The company believes the incident occurred on January 4, 2021, after threat actors managed to trick employees into accessing and downloading malicious software on some retail-store computers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The annual study on top-used passwords published by Nordpass revealed that we are still using weak credentials that expose us to serious risks. Nordpass has published its annual report, titled “Top 200 most common passwords,” on the use of passwords. The report shows that we are still using weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. The post Block discloses data breach involving Cash App potentially impacting 8.2

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As per the response given by 1371 consumers who were questioned about their experience, it is estimated that half of the population have or might have experienced data theft that was stolen, or compromised in a data breach or misused last year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a statement that its servers were infiltrated in January this year leading to a data breach. The post Zoho Vulnerability leads to data breach at International Committee of the Red Cross appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2022

A Caribbean based company is urging its customers to delete credit card info saved onto its website after it detected a data breach on its servers. Details about the data breach have been withheld. The company is also encouraging its customers to change the password of their respective accounts.

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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. Note 2: In the year 2021, the IKEA France business wing was caught in a legal tangle for allegedly conducting espionage on its employees & customers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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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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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. How is Broward Health handling the incident?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Passwords are difficult to remember and have ever-more-complex criteria set by individual platforms. They are also the main culprits for data leaks. 85% of data breaches are caused by human mistakes, and credential compromise is a key contributing element, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Twitter confirmed that the recent leak of members’ profile information resulted from the 2021 data breach disclosed in August 2022. Twitter confirmed that the recent data leak of millions of profiles resulted from the 2021 data breach that the company disclosed in August 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. And finding that password is even easier.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2023

It appears the dataset was created in 2021, after a threat actor exploited a Twitter API vulnerability which allowed users to input emails and phone numbers to confirm whether they were associated with a Twitter ID. Gal is unfortunately correct in that this breach will likely lead to a lot of spam messages for Twitter users in the dataset.

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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

With lots of breaches to discuss already ? Ok, so these may not be 2021 breaches but I betcha that by next week's update there'll be brand new ones from the new year to discuss. I'll talk more about the last past of the trip then as well as those all new fresh 2021 data breaches I'm sure we'll have by Friday.

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