Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2024

As is often the case these days, it turns out that the cyberincident was very likely a ransomware attack that included a data breach. Ransomware operators typically steal data from the compromised systems to use as extra leverage against the victim. The company has not so far specified the type of data that may have been stolen.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Bank of America revealed that the personal information of some customers was stolen in a data breach affecting a third-party services provider. Bank of America began notifying some customers following a data breach at the third-party services provider Infosys McCamish System (IMS).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2022

T Mobile’s Executive Vice President Mike Katz issued an update on his LinkedIn page, a sophisticated cyber attack resulting in data breach that apparently occurred last week targeting some of the business customers of his company. However, Mr. Katz told that the impact of the data breach could vary by business and individual.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2021

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 The study highlights the significant impact of the ongoing pandemic on the cost of data breaches and the effort to contain them. The average cost of a data breach passed from $3.86

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will inevitably result in them facing a host of adverse effects, such as account takeovers (ATO), business email compromises (BEC), identity theft, and financial fraud. This widespread geographical distribution of “Free Leaksmas” event highlights the extensive global reach and severe impact of these cybercriminal activities.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 4, 2023

It is crucial for businesses to know and understand the costs and dangers associated with data breaches, how they occur, how to prevent them, and how to respond in the event of a successful breach. According to the 2023 DBIR, 83% of breaches originated from external sources, while 19% could be traced to internal actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

International ticketing services company See Tickets disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ payment card details. Ticketing service company See Tickets disclosed a data breach, and threat actors might have accessed customers’ payment card details. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 27, 2018

Wireless company T-Mobile suffered a data breach affecting more than 2 million of its 77 million customers. The breach resulted in the compromise of names, phone numbers, email addresses, as well as general account information, but not, according to the company, financial information. Read more about the breach here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

Ferrari disclosed a data breach after receiving a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that gained access to some of its IT systems. Ferrari disclosed a data breach after it received a ransom demand from an unnamed extortion group that breached its IT systems. “Ferrari N.V.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

An attacker managed to compromise network administrator credentials through the account of a former employee of the organization. CISA suspects that the account details fell in the hands of the attacker through a data breach. CISA suspects that the account details fell in the hands of the attacker through a data breach.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2023

Fintech platform Hatch Bank disclosed a data breach, hackers exploited a recently discovered zero-day in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. Fortra’s investigation determined that there was unauthorized access to the site account from January 30, 2023, to January 31, 2023. ” reads the notice of data event.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

I’m not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. And yet, here I am again writing the second story this week about a possibly serious security breach at an Indian company that provides IT support and outsourcing for a ridiculous number of major U.S.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The infamous cybercrime syndicate ShinyHunters has struck again, this time claiming responsibility for an absolutely staggering data breach impacting live entertainment giants Ticketmaster and Live Nation. If confirmed, Ticketmaster must be transparent about the accessed data.

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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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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2022

A data breach is any person’s nightmare. It can affect you mentally and financially, and an 100% unhackable device or account necessitates taking precautionary measures. . Secure your accounts with complex passwords. Whatever your security strategy is, be sure you verify that your data and accounts are safe from hackers.

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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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SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

Will your organization someday lose a multi-million dollar contract because of a Shadow IT-related data breach? This comes after the company, Insight Global, announced a data breach impacting more than 70,000 Pennsylvania residents and their diagnosis or exposure to COVID-19. Reaction to this Shadow IT data breach.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

New York Attorney General Letitia James just announced the settlement of a data breach lawsuit between the AG's office and Dunkin' Donuts. According to state investigators, Dunkin' Donuts failed to respond to a series of successful cyber attacks that left tens of thousands of customer's online accounts vulnerable.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. 45% of breaches involved Hacking. Errors were causal events in 22% of breaches.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our updated research looks at how data breaches happened, what academia published, what the news covered, and what people Googled. The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 14, 2023

when I'm getting lawyers asking me to advertise their class action suits on HIBP, you know damn well who's getting rich out of all this, and it ain't the plaintiffs) The Bureau van Dijk data breach is now in HIBP (we should be asking a lot more questions about why data aggregators collecting this sort of info still exist)

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

(CJH) is alerting more than 36,000 UPMC patients that some of their personal data may have been inappropriately accessed as the result of an information security breach at the company,” the notice reads. “This event did not occur at UPMC or affect the security of its electronic patient records or other computer systems.”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Nonprofits are equally at risk, and often lack cybersecurity measures.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the august ransomware attack. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the ransomware attack that took place in August.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

If this data breach case was made for TV, it would probably be streaming on Netflix. Some on Twitter were having a field day with a message from what appeared to be Trump's Gab account. First signs of the Gab data breach. We have searched high and low for chatter on the breach on the Internet and can find nothing.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On an online forum, optusdata threatened to publish the data of 10,000 Optus customers per day unless they received $1 million in cryptocurrency. They began by posting the data of 10,200 customers. The Commonwealth Bank confirmed it had identified and blocked the account of the SMS extortionist. Too much attention.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 23, 2020

The event impacted the accounts of almost 8,000 people. Here are tips on how to protect yourself and your organization from website breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 8, 2022

medical history/diagnosis/treatment, dates of service, lab test results, prescription information, provider name, medical account number, or anything similar in your medical file and/or record); and financial information (i.e., We thank the community, our employees, and partners for their support during this event.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. Reporting an event is one action that can help. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. Reporting an event is one action that can help. When Should You Report a Data Breach?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USDoD didn’t say why they decided to leak the data on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but there was definitely an aircraft theme to the message that accompanied the leak, which concluded with the words, “Lockheed martin, Raytheon and the entire defense contractos [sic], I’m coming for you [expletive].”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric suffered a data breach after a Cactus ransomware attack. BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the data breach. The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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