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Data Breaches, Class Actions and Ambulance Chasing

Troy Hunt

This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. A data breach made you sad and now you want money for being sad? I have to be aware that phishing scams may be used against me.

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Phish Leads to Breach at Calif. State Controller

Krebs on Security

A phishing attack last week gave attackers access to email and files at the California State Controller’s Office (SCO), an agency responsible for handling more than $100 billion in public funds each year. A notice of breach posted by the California State Controller’s Office. Source: sco.ca.gov. .

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Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine

CyberSecurity Insiders

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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Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach and reset customers? pwds

Security Affairs

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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Healthcare giant Magellan Health discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. It is not the first time that Magellan and its subsidiaries suffer a data breach, in 2019 Magellan Rx Management , National Imaging Associates , and Magellan Healthcare subsidiaries were impacted by cyber attacks. ” concludes the company.

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Data Breach Saga: What You Need To Know About The Cit0day Data Leak

Hot for Security

Was your data exposed in the Cit0day breach? was a data breach index website that collected previously hacked databases and advertised them in the cybercriminal community and on underground forums. Similar data dumps and collections of data breaches will undoubtedly pop up in the near future.

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Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts

SC Magazine

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.