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MARCH 26, 2021

Fact: In November 2020, a database containing over 200 million usernames and passwords was leaked in the infamous Cit0day breach. According to researchers, the leak included both new and previously breached login credentials from over 23,600 websites. Was your data exposed in the Cit0day breach? Find out now.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The company is notifying the incident to its users via email and is forcing a password reset in response to the incident. . ” continues the notification.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers — a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts — has been hacked. But unlike in previous breaches at OGUsers, the perpetrators of this latest incident have not yet released the forum database. ”

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APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019. Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Havenly, a Denver-Based company, that realized an interior designer marketplace has disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3 The US-based interior design web site Havenly has disclosed a data breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The third-party company is owned by a former Team Leader, still Member of the JRD team at the time of the breach.” ” reads the data breach notification. “Known to the current Team Leader at the time of the breach. ( [link] ) Each backup copy included a full copy of the website, including all the data.”

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MARCH 31, 2020

Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – Marriott, hacking).

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MAY 21, 2020

Meal delivery service Home Chef has confirmed that it recently suffered a security breach that exposed its customer information. Meal delivery service Home Chef has disclosed a data breach that exposed its customer information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The leaked data includes login names, hashed passwords, and email addresses. BleepingComputer, who received the data from Cyble, confirmed that many of the email addresses listed in the databases belong to registered users of the sites. Users that share the password at another site should also change the password.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. Yeah, it's legit guys.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Albion Online game maker discloses a data breach, hackers gained access to the company forum database by exploiting a known vulnerability. A threat actor has breached the forum of Albion Online and stole usernames and password hashes from its database. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Albion Online). Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 2, 2020

.” On Sunday, while the turmoil was continuing in the US, alleged members of the group (@PowerfulArmyGR, @namatikure) announced on Pastebin that the site was hacked and leaked the database of email and passwords. In other words, this is data that's already out there in other breaches, at least the email addresses are.

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JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. ” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. SecurityAffairs – hacking, E27). Pierluigi Paganini.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers ). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Virgin Media).

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2022

A data breach is any person’s nightmare. Hackers target small and medium businesses as they don’t have the resources to pay for cybersecurity tools and network upgrades to protect their data against the latest cybercriminals’ tricks as large corporations do. Secure your accounts with complex passwords.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users. Hunt added the data to the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website over the weekend.

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JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Aerial Direct’s data breach notification sent to the customers revealed that an unauthorized third party had been able to access customer data on 26 February through an external backup database. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nitro PDF suffered a massive data breach that impacts many major organizations, including Apple, Chase, Citibank, Google, and Microsoft. A massive data breach suffered by the Nitro PDF might have a severe impact on well-known organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Chase, and Citibank. Nitro Software , Inc.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. million Pluto TV user records, he also added that the service was hacked by ShinyHunters. The dump includes PLUTO TV’s display name, email address, bcrypt hashed password, birthday, device platform, and IP address.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. troyhunt FYI, web site @houzz got hacked. Just got this email notice.

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MAY 6, 2020

Hackers have breached the online learning platform Unacademy and are selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

Freepik, the popular website that provides high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed a major security breach that impacted 8.3 Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for 8.3M ” Freepik said the hacker obtained usernames and passwords for the oldest 8.3 Million users.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

“The API database, which includes our Client usernames, emails, hashed passwords, first names and IP addresses have been accessed by an unauthorized third party. The respective database table that holds client data, has information about 14 million Hostinger users. SecurityAffairs – Hostinger , hacking).

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MAY 3, 2020

The hacker claims to have hacked the company in March 2020, it has stolen just a small part of the company database. The hacker has shared 15 million user records calling for action in cracking the passwords that are hashed using the SHA2-384 hashing algorithm. ZDNet confirmed the authenticity of the leaked data.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. ” reads the data breach notification. million customers.

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MAY 17, 2019

The popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow announced on Thursday that is has suffered a data breach. The news of a data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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APRIL 5, 2020

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Users can check if their data have been exposed in the StreetEasy and Sephora data breaches. 87% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 “In April 2018, the self-proclaimed “biggest retro gaming website on earth”, Emupardise, suffered a date breach.”

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APRIL 19, 2020

A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . ZDNet has obtained the data dump with the help of experts from the data breach monitoring service Under the Breach who also noticed the data leak. ” reported ZDNet.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the huge trove of data, called Collection #1, that was first disclosed by Troy Hunt. Few weeks ago I wrote about “ How Data Breaches Happen “, where I shared some public available “pasties” within apparently (not tested) SQLi vulnerable websites. Give a look at his post: [link].

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