Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2025

The company reported the incident to national authorities, including the State Security Agency (SSA), South African Police Service (SAPS) for criminal investigation and notified the Information Regulator of South Africa as a precautionary measure under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

Nova Scotia Power confirmed a data breach involving the theft of sensitive customer data after the April cybersecurity incident. In April, Nova Scotia Power and Emera faced a cyber attack that has impacted their IT systems and networks.Both companies declared that the security incident did not cause any power outages.

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Graham Cluley

MAY 27, 2025

Lovers of Adidas clothes would be wise to be on their guard against phishing attacks, after the German sportswear giant revealed that a cyber attack had exposed the personal information of customers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 1: Educating and Training the Workforce Regularly Human error remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. According to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report , 68% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. Many cyber attacks exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

Reports suggest their systems were infiltrated as early as February 2025, with sensitive data reportedly stolen and ransomware deployed to disrupt their infrastructure. link] Meanwhile, the Co-op is grappling with claims from cyber criminals that they possess the private information of 20 million members from its membership scheme.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2022

A Michigan based American bank named Flagstar Bank has sent notification to almost all its customers about a data breach that took place in December last year. As of now, there is no evidence of data misuse or information sale on the web. The impact details are yet to be known. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2025

UK telecommunications firm TalkTalk disclosed a data breach after a threat actor announced the hack on a cybercrime forum. UK telecommunications company TalkTalk confirmed a data breach after a threat actor claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on a cybercrime forum and offered for sale alleged customer data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

The attackers encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines used by the company. This week, a cyber update published by the company on its website confirmed the data breach: “To proactively manage the incident, we immediately took steps to protect our systems and engaged leading cyber security experts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Texas Tech University reports a data breach affecting 1.4 million, exposing personal, health, and financial data from its health sciences centers. Texas Tech University disclosed a data breach that impacted over 1.4 million individuals following a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

A cyber attack against Michigan Medicine resulted in the compromise of the personal and health information of approximately 57,000 patients. The academic medical center of the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, suffered a data breach that impacted 56953 patients.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax, disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax disclosed a data breach that impacted over 123,000 individuals. ” reads a FORM 8-K filed with SEC.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after the new Embargo extortion group leaked over 500GB of data allegedly stolen from the company. Firstmac Limited, one of the largest non-bank lenders in Australia, disclosed a data breach. The company is notifying the impacted customers. ” continues the notice.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Implementing multi-factor authentication, supplier risk-management frameworks, and staff security training could help to reduce data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Microsoft has suffered a data breach that leads to leak of sensitive information of some of its customers. Prima facie revealed that the free to access data wasn’t misused till date and all affected customers were notified about the incident in the first week of Oct’22.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Next time when you are hit by a cyber attack, you better be aware that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) will soon make the information public by posting it on its website. How the European data regulators are eligible to reveal such information on a public platform is yet to be known.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

According to a report published by Japanese news resource Nikkei, it has been revealed that the North Korean government is actively engaging in cyber attacks on the digital infrastructure of its adversaries. This information is not entirely new, as many are already aware of the country’s involvement in such activities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2024

The American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corporation disclosed a data breach following the cyber attack that hit the company in June. The American drugstore chain giant Rite Aid suffered a data breach following a cyberattack in June conducted by the RansomHub ransomware group. 148 in the Fortune 500 in 2022.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2024

million individuals were affected by the data breach it suffered in February 2024. The insurance company Prudential Financial confirmed that the data breach it suffered in February 2024 affected over 2.5 Prudential Financial confirmed that more than 2.5 million individuals.

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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. The post Data breach news trending on Google Search Engine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. The attackers also stole personal information from customers in South Korea and Taiwan, including names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2023

Google Fi, a wireless phone plan offered only to Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary customers, has confirmed a data breach that could have occurred because of a security incident on T-Mobile servers that leaked data related to millions of customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. Also, on August 22, 2023, we became aware that the at-issue email accounts include email accounts that may contain protected health information.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

A French luxury brand named Chanel has apologized to all of its customers for failing to protect the information of its users from hackers. Prima facie has revealed that the stolen data includes birth dates, customer names, gender details, password, phone numbers and shopping & payment history.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Japanese watchmaker Seiko revealed that the attack that suffered earlier this year was carried out by the Black Cat ransomware gang. On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. This unauthorized access was the result of a ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We all known that a few weeks ago, American Telecom Giant T-Mobile experienced a cyber attack in which data related to over 54.6m Note 3- As the company failed to protect the information of its customers, it can face a serious financial penalty from the data watchdog soon.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Community Clinic of Maui experienced a data breach impacting over 120,000 people following a LockBit ransomware attack. In May, the Community Clinic of Maui experienced a major IT outage that impacted thousands of patients following a cyber attack. In June, the Lockbit ransomware gang took credit for the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2022

T Mobile’s Executive Vice President Mike Katz issued an update on his LinkedIn page, a sophisticated cyber attack resulting in data breach that apparently occurred last week targeting some of the business customers of his company. The consequences of the attack are yet to be estimated.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A cyber attack hit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada, confirmed that it was the target of a cyber attack.

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Hacker's King

MAY 24, 2025

In the contemporary and advanced society, cyber threats are on the rise in both quantity and sophistication. No day goes by without risk of data breaches, identity theft, or financial losses to both people and businesses around the world. The startling fact is that more than 55% of breaches stem from credential attack vectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Highly placed sources said that the breach was caused because of vulnerability in the software provided by Atlassian Corporation Plc- an Australian firm that is into software development. Staff of the University of Colorado said that the vulnerability could have exposed data related to over 30k students.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The threat actors now claim to have breached the servers of Acer Taiwan on October 15th and have stolen internal data, including employee and product information. “We have recently detected an isolated attack on our local after-sales service system in India and a further attack in Taiwan. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This month has been a challenging month for organizations worldwide as several high-profile data breaches occur and become headlines. These incidents have not only exposed sensitive information but also highlighted. The post Data Breaches for the Month August 2024 appeared first on Strobes Security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The July 2024 ransomware attack that hit the City of Columbus, Ohio, exposed the personal and financial data of 500,000 individuals. On July 18, 2024, the City of Columbus, Ohio, suffered a cyber attack that impacted the City’s services. million) for stolen data. Rhysida demanded 30 Bitcoin (about $1.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A Cyber Attack that took place on UK’s Defence Academy early last year was brought to light by Air Marshall Edward Stringer through an interview given to Sky News. The Former Director of the academy stated that the attack went unnoticed by the media as it was not given priority as its consequences were not severe.

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