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Weekly Update 369

Troy Hunt

here's a blog post about how stupid class actions like this are! Protect your identity now.

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Everything You Need to Know About the 2021 Facebook Data Breach

Heimadal Security

Although the data is 2 years old, the 2021 Facebook data breach is an extremely serious matter, since the leaked data is still valuable to cybercriminals who use people’s personal information to […]. The post Everything You Need to Know About the 2021 Facebook Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches

Heimadal Security

According to almost 900 pages of public documentation, names, health care plans, annual revenue, birth dates, and other sensitive data were compromised in these data breaches. The post Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Pwned Passwords, Version 5

Troy Hunt

Shortly after that blog post I launched Pwned Passwords with 306M passwords from previous breach corpuses. I made the data downloadable and also made it searchable via an API, except there are obvious issues with enabling someone to send passwords to me even if they're hashed as they were in that first instance.

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Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches

Heimadal Security

According to almost 900 pages of public documentation, names, health care plans, annual revenue, birth dates, and other sensitive data were compromised in these data breaches. The post Between November 2020 and February 2021, Vermont Health Connect Has Suffered 10 Data Breaches appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Krebs on Security

Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. A chart on Palant’s blog post offers an idea of how increasing password iterations dramatically increases the costs and time needed by the attackers to crack someone’s master password.

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Recipe for Cybersecurity Success in the Restaurant Industry

SecureWorld News

If data is involved, threat actors want to get their hands on it and exploit it. Some notable cyber incidents in the past half-decade include: McDonald's (2021): The fast-food giant suffered a data breach that exposed customer and employee information in South Korea and Taiwan. Subway U.K. 2020): The sandwich chain's U.K.