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Mayor candidate slaps Latitude with $1 million lawsuit for data breach

CyberSecurity Insiders

Shahriar Sean Saffari is the person who launched a legal appeal against the financial services firm of Australia in the court and is seeking a financial compensation for the distress caused to him after the incident. The hackers accessed no card expiry or CVC, as the company stored such details on an encrypted server.

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Marriott Breach: More than 500 Million Guest Affected

Adam Levin

“The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement. Monitor your accounts. Check your credit report every day, keep track of your credit score, review major accounts daily if possible.

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50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Adam Levin

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account.

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Hush – This Data Is Secret

CyberSecurity Insiders

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), private financial records, and a selection of other sensitive data hold all the required elements to perpetrate crimes such as blackmail, impersonation, and identity theft, or a combinations of these. It is an all-or-nothing proposition.

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Research partnership to examine how fraudsters abuse financial tech innovations

SC Magazine

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve. “[We

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Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Security Affairs

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption.

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.