Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July 28th of this year, the Company suffered a possible data breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 230,000 individuals.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The security breach resulted from a cyber attack exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT).- reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. “On October 19 th , 2023, Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) informed the Government of Canada of a breach involving Government of Canada information held by BGRS and SIRVA Canada systems.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a new data breach after some of its US systems were compromised in July. After the attack that hit the company in late July 2022, Samsung disclosed a data breach. Threat actors had access to internal company data, including the source code of Galaxy models.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Labour Party discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack hit a service provider that is managing its data. Labour Party discloses a data breach after a service provider that manages its data was hit by a ransomware attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). The post The U.K.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

A post published on a popular hacking forum claims Volvo Cars has suffered a new data breach, alleging stolen data available for sale. French cybersecurity Anis Haboubi yesterday first noticed that a threat actor was attempting to sell data allegedly stolen from Volvo Cars on a popular hacking forum.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. Recently someone has leaked on GitHub [ 1 , 2 ] a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese hacking firm, I-Soon.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data breach).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Threat actors published a sample of data allegedly stolen from TikTok, but the company denies it was breached. The hacking collective AgainstTheWest recently published a post on Breach Forums message board claiming to have hacked TikTok and stolen source code and user data. OK, #TikTokBreach is real.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2022

The post Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser appeared first on The Shared Security Show. The post Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser appeared first on The Shared Security Show.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2022

The company disclosed a data breach after threat actors have access to a limited subset of data stored in a compromised database. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. According to the company, financial and payment data were not compromised because are not stored on its servers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Threat actors breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords Cloud storage provider DropBox revealed that threat actors have breached the production infrastructure of the DropBox Sign eSignature service and gained access to customer information and authentication data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Russian subscription-based streaming service Start discloses a data breach affecting 7.5 The Russian media streaming platform START disclosed a data breach that impacted 7.5 Russian news outlet Medusa verified that the leaked data are valid. ” reads the data breach notice published on Telegram.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2021

The OpenWRT forum, the community behind the open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, disclosed a data breach. OpenWRT forum was compromised during the weekend and user data were stolen by intruders. The administrators of the forum disclosed the data breach with an announcement published on the forum.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

In early April, the ransomware gang Money Message announced to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). The authenticity of the leaked private key was confirmed by Alex Matrosov, founder of firmware security firm Binarly.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users because their accounts were compromised through credential stuffing attacks. The company added that the unauthorized accessed were the result of credential stuffing attacks and that its systems were not breached. .” What is credential stuffing?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Samsung confirmed that threat actors had access to the source code of its Galaxy smartphones in recent security breach. Samsung this week disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to internal company data, including the source code of Galaxy models. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lapsus$ ransomware).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. SMBs and enterprises alike have been struggling with APIs as a mechanism for information security. The fact that there are so many different APIs is the main challenge for enterprises when it comes to API security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. Which are the challenges of user authentication? In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. User authentication seems easy, but there are inherent challenges to be aware of. User Authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

The BBC and British Airways were both impacted by the data breach suffered by the payroll provider Zellis. As a result of the cyber attack on the payroll provider Zellis, the personal data of employees at the BBC and British Airways has been compromised and exposed. reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The Broward Health public health system disclosed a massive data breach that has impacted more than 1.3 The Broward Health public health system has suffered a data breach that impacted 1,357,879 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

At the end of 2022, a security researcher discovered the stolen data on an unsecured server belonging to a group of hackers. TechCrunch was able to verify the authenticity of the data for a sample they analyzed, however it is unclear how recent the data is. New breach: GunAuction[.]com

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

Roku announced that 576,000 accounts were hacked in new credential stuffing attacks, threat actors used credentials stolen from third-party platforms. Roku also plans to refund unauthorized purchases and is implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) for all accounts.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Insider Gaming confirmed the data breach by obtaining "the entirety" of the stolen data. The hacker reportedly tricked an employee into providing a two-factor authentication code delivered via SMS, which allowed them to access the Slack channel. Other employees did not fall for the phish.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach. On January 26, 2021, threat intelligence team at Nightlion Security became aware of several new breached databases being sold on the Dark0de market by the popular hacking group Shiny Hunters.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ShinyHunters). The post ShinyHunters hacked Pluto TV service, 3.2M A hacker has shared 3.2

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ukraine’s intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, ‘Rosaviatsia.’ ’ Ukraine’s intelligence service announced they have hacked Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, ‘Rosaviatsia.’ ” reads the announcement. ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a backdoor into the source code. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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