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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Additionally, the threat actor with… pic.twitter.com/tqsyb8plPG — HackManac (@H4ckManac) February 28, 2024 When Jason found his email address and other info in this corpus, he had the same question so many others do when their data turns up in a place they've never heard of before - how?

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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Krebs on Security

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. which suffered a data breach in 2015 affecting 78.8

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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The Social Security data breach compromised ‘billions’ of accounts. Here’s one easy, free way to protect yourself.

Heimadal Security

While artificial intelligence has transformed the ability to prevent, detect, […] The post The Social Security data breach compromised ‘billions’ of accounts. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Here’s one easy, free way to protect yourself.

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Security expert Troy Hunt hit by phishing attack

Malwarebytes

Through an automated attack disguised as a notice from Hunts chosen newsletter provider Mailchimp, scammers stole roughly 16,000 records belonging to current and past subscribers of Hunts blog. The email claimed that Mailchimp was temporarily cutting service to Hunt because his blog had allegedly received a spam complaint.

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The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

Webroot

If a company you do business with becomes part of a data breach, cybercriminals may have full access to your confidential information. Unfortunately, data breaches are on the rise and affecting more companies and consumers than ever. billion people received notices that their information was exposed in a data breach.

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Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Krebs on Security

said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story. accounts for a number of Fortune 500 firms listed as customers on the company’s website , including Aramark , Lockheed Martin , Lowes , and Pepsi.

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