Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Does Identity Theft Increase During the Holidays? IdentityIQ As the threat of identity theft grows each year, helping safeguard your identity during the holiday season becomes more of a necessity. But does identity theft increase during the holidays?

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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. APIs are essentially instructions that allow applications to access data and interact with web databases. .” Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With access to your personal information, bad actors can drain your bank account and damage your credit—or worse. By taking the right steps, you and your loved ones can enjoy the peace of mind that comes from identity protection. But it’s just as important you don’t use the same password for multiple accounts.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

Identity theft has been around for a long time, and it continues to evolve and adapt with the times. When it comes to identity theft , you need to avoid believing misinformation and spreading it to others. Here are four identity theft myths to stop believing. Myth #3: Identity theft only affects adults.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’re still under the impression that hacking is restricted to hoodie-wearing individuals in darkened rooms, then you might be vastly underestimating the scale the data breach problem. . Last year alone more than 300 million consumers were impacted by data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2022

million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts. Using a forum or social media account to send phishing messages or spam.

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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. The company did not reveal if the attackers gained access to confidential technical documents as a result of the attack. The experts at the company believe that the attackers attempted wire fraud.

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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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Identity IQ

JUNE 15, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America has revealed a data breach impacting more than 3.3 million customers after a vendor exposed unsecured data online. A small number of records included additional data like dates of birth, Social Security numbers and account numbers. Notify your department of motor vehicles of the breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Data leak discovered: 30.09.2020 Inova contacted: 01.10.2020 Amazon contacted: 06.10.2020 Turkish CERT contacted: 05.10.2020 Response received: – Server secured: 12.10.2020.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 27, 2022

The improper disposal of smartphones and computers is one of the most common ways for a nefarious character to access sensitive information that can lead to identity theft. But the reality is that things like photos, videos or personal documents likely remain long after being simply deleted.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 15, 2022

How to Help Protect Your Identity Offline. The media often covers data breaches and cyberattacks that expose the personal data of large groups of people, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and other forms of fraud. But your personal data isn’t just vulnerable on the internet; it can be offline too.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2021

T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. It is not clear how many people total may be impacted by this breach.

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Identity IQ

MAY 14, 2023

The primary concern with a stolen Social Security card is identity theft. With just your Social Security number, identity thieves can wreak havoc in your name, negatively impacting your credit, finances and even commit crimes in your name. Fraud alerts can last one year, and you can renew them as needed.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The FBI is investigating a data breach where cybercriminals were able to steal patients’ records from a Las Vegas plastic surgeon’s office, and then post the details online which included nude photos. They sent the data, along with the nude photos, to family and friends through patients’ email accounts.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 7, 2021

When an identity thief has purchased your personal information from a data breach, they can use it for all manner of malicious purposes. This means a criminal might have purchased your bank account details and tax documents online and then have authenticated access to your bank account.

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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

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. The leak poses a variety of risks, expanding from identity theft to takeover and cashing-out accounts of traders.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 6, 2023

How to Freeze Your Credit IdentityIQ Keeping your identity safe from theft is crucial, and freezing your credit is an effective way to do so. Freezing your credit ensures that no one can open new credit accounts in your name without your permission. What Is a Credit Freeze?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

file exposed information that attackers could employ for lateral movement within the ministry’s systems, potentially escalating to anything from account takeover to a ransomware attack. Risky business The implications of leaking such information are far and wide, as attackers could perform account takeover attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The attackers compromised one of the company systems and had access to the emails and documents of some employees. Now News Corp revealed that the threat actor behind the security breach first gained a foothold in the company infrastructure in February 2020. As soon as we became aware of the activity, we notified U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Experian said I had three options for a free credit report at this point: Mail a request along with identity documents, call a phone number for Experian, or upload proof of identity via the website. It’s also worth mentioning that reports of hijacked Experian.com accounts persisted into late 2022. ” Sen.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Since passports contain a significant amount of personal information, including full names, date of birth, and a unique passport number, cyber criminals could use them to impersonate victims and steal their identities.” What are the risks of exposing passport data? the team said. Direct financial loss is also a possible risk.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic Identity Theft: What It Is and How It Works IdentityIQ You work hard to protect your identity. But despite your diligence, there’s a form of identity theft that’s becoming increasingly prevalent and is notoriously difficult to detect — synthetic identity theft.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

The Blackbaud data breach was the largest health care-related incident of 2020, impacting an estimated two dozen providers and well over 10 million patients. Now, 2,565 patients of addiction treatment center Alina Lodge are being notified that their data was compromised during the massive vendor incident more than a year ago.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2022, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. The huge interest in cryptocurrency is keeping high the price of crypto accounts. 50 in 2021).

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

The popular university admission platform Leverage EDU leaked almost 240,000 sensitive files, including students’ passports, financial documents, certificates, and exam results. The Cybernews research team discovered that Leverage EDU leaked extremely sensitive data due to the misconfiguration of their systems. Graduation certificate.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Identity theft also affects around 1.4 Staying safe on the internet means knowing what privacy data is and how to help protect your personal information. Why Is Data Privacy Important?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Did you know that human error is the main culprit of 95% of data breaches ? They could expose your sensitive data and put you, your employees, clients, and customers at risk of identity theft and fraud. Given that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g.,

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The information compromised includes (but assume is not limited to): name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences. Monitor your accounts. Follow the three Ms: 1.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. A misconfiguration of the bank systems exposed millions of records with sensitive data. Files exposed sensitive data of the bank and its clients.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The leaked records include Clubhouse user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter handles, Instagram handles, number of followers, number of people followed by the users, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names. Financial data was not included in the data leak. Source CyberNews. photo URLs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers warn that such data leaks are hazardous as they might help threat actors craft targeted phishing campaigns, assist in forgery and identity theft, and trick companies into making payments. Treasure trove of data. The security loophole resulted in millions of private documents being revealed to the public.

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