Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2025

Blue Shield of California leaked the personal data of 4.7 The tech giant may have used this data for targeted advertising, according to Blue Shield, which is one of the largest health insurers in the US. Usually in a data breach we can point at cybercriminals that went out of their way to obtain the data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. The threat actor is advertising the stolen data since October 28 on a hacker forum. Only RedMart, after being informed by Bleeping computer, disclosed a security breach. million (8.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. In March hackers compromised two websites of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and now it disclosed a data breach. ” continues the data breach notice.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2024

Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week : Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. The user data likely refers to the sales ad for 560 million customers’ data that was posted online earlier this week by a group calling themselves ShinyHunters.

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Security Affairs

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. million of its guests.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2020

The online education portal EduCBA discloses a data breach and is resetting customers’ passwords in response to the incident. Online education website EduCBA discloses a data breach, it has started notifying customers that in response to the incident it is resetting their passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Education Passwords Advertising 129

Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Passwords Education Advertising 105

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) has hit the news headlines for becoming a victim of a cyber attack that led to data breach of over 57,900 claimant accounts seeking unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, a digital advertising company named Reindeer from New York is trending on Google for accidental data exposure.

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Data breaches Engineering Identity Theft Social Engineering 145

Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Passwords Software Identity Theft 105

Security Affairs

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.

Wireless 137

Wireless Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications 137

Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Accountability 138

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. “In limited instances, and only with respect to certain current employees, the unauthorized actor also used a piece of malware designed to steal login credentials and passwords,” continues the notice. ” concludes the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Healthcare Ransomware Identity Theft 144

Security Affairs

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 ). ” continues the CEO’s notice.

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Data breaches Media Wireless Advertising 138

Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Telecommunications Passwords Advertising 138

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Media reported [ 1 , 2 ] that the company is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach. TechCrunch reported that the company confirmed it shared patients’ information with third-party organizations, including Google, Microsoft and X, for advertising purposes. million residents.

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Data breaches Healthcare Advertising Mobile 138

Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Data collection 108

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Advertising 112

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security firm Imperva revealed it has suffered a data breach that affecting some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product. Cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2025

There are no changes to the way the company stores, manages, or protects customer data. In 2023, not only did the company suffer a major data breach , it also placed some of the blame on the victims who, according to 23andMe, negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords. Watch out for fake vendors.

Passwords 111

Passwords Accountability Data breaches Phishing 111

Security Affairs

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million for selling user information to advertisement firms without the consent of its users on a respective note. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA) pronounced the financial penalty on Grindr for not complying with GDPR rules and failing to protect the user information from flowing towards third parties.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Passwords Accountability Hacking Data breaches 349

Security Affairs

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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Hot for Security

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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Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Also: Massive data breach exposes 184 million passwords for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and more Individually, any one of those pieces of data can be exploited by the wrong people. The records are being linked to the same ones compromised by cybercriminals in a data breach that AT&T announced in July of 2024.

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Password Management Passwords Identity Theft Artificial Intelligence 128

Security Affairs

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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Hostinger , hacking).

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Hacking 111

Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. ” PASSWORD SPRAYING.

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Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Hacking 105

Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation noti f ied the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. ” states MasterCard.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Advertising Financial Services 109

Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2019

The ECB was the victim of a data breach, the bank announced that hackers had access for several months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to its newsletter. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – ECB, data breach).

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Data breaches Banking Advertising Marketing 106

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2021

In a “ Notice of Data Breach ” message posted on Saturday, Mar. ” [Full disclosure: KnowBe4 is an advertiser on this site]. ” The SCO has not responded to requests for comment first sent Monday. KrebsOnSecurity reached out to the CDT for comment, and will update this post if they reply.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

While Capital One incident is making the headlines, another incident may have severe consequences, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) also suffered a data breach. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2019

Desjardins credit union announced a data breach that exposed personal banking information of 2.9 The nation’s largest credit union, one of the largest in the world, confirmed it suffered a data leak that exposed personal banking information of 2.9 Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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