Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages.

Data breaches 91

Data breaches Backups Passwords Accountability 91

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 ” The company pointed out that it does not store Social Security numbers and financial information in its systems. VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen.

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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. Access to the affected legacy database has also been closed.”continues

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Also, no customer account passwords were accessed. million of them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email. ” reads the data breach notification share by El Reg. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2021

The FBI is going to share compromised passwords discovered during investigations with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)’s ‘Pwned Passwords’ service. The Pwned Passwords service allows users to search for known compromised passwords and discover how many times they have been found in past data breaches.

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Passwords Data breaches Cybercrime Hacking 112

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. “The investigation determined that an unauthorized third party gained access to the ABA network beginning on or about March 6, 2023 and may have acquired certain information.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2021

A suspicious wave of attacks resulted in the hack of four cybercrime forums Verified, Crdclub, Exploit, and Maza since January. Since January, a series of mysterious cyberattacks that resulted in the hack of popular Russian-language cybercrime forums. No other information looked to be compromised in the attack.”

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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. In other words, bad actors glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. ” said Gal.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Accountability Passwords 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020.

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Data breaches Retail Passwords Scams 89

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security may have exposed the data of 820K customers. Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Hacking 84

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2023

The NBA (National Basketball Association) disclosed a data breach after a third-party firm providing a newsletter service was breached. The NBA (National Basketball Association) is notifying followers of a data breach after a third-party company providing a newsletter service was breached.

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Data breaches Hacking Passwords Phishing 92

Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Data breaches Hacking Banking Financial Services 121

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 ” Stolen data include email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames, while financial data were not exposed. million users.

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Data breaches Passwords Banking Media 81

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals.

Data breaches 84

Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Software 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. The attack against Neiman Marcus Group took place in May 2020, as a result of the attack, threat actors had access to customers’ information, including payment card data.

Data breaches 91

Data breaches Retail Passwords Accountability 91

Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. BleepingComputer first reported the news, and Luxottica confirmed that the data breach is the result of a new security incident suffered by a third-party contractor that was managing its customer data.

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Data breaches Retail Hacking Ransomware 88

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.

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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).

Data breaches 87

Data breaches Social Engineering Phishing Accountability 87

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

. “We recently determined that an unauthorized person breached a vendor’s system and gained access to your “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI).” ” reads a data breach communication sent by the company to the impacted customers. credit card data) or sensitive data (i.e. .”​

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Data breaches Hacking Wireless Telecommunications 88

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords.”

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Data breaches Financial Services Passwords Hacking 86

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 105

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. The company is sending customers data breach notification letters to confirm that threat actors have stolen sensitive personal information in the March attack.

Data breaches 75

Data breaches Backups Ransomware Wireless 75

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. In May 2021, over 36,000 email and password combinations for.edu email accounts were offered for sale on a publically available instant messaging platform. Pierluigi Paganini.

Cybercrime 130

Cybercrime Education Accountability Phishing 130

Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach. The company announced to have started a “deep technical review of the situation across our systems to identify the nature of any data that was illegally accessed.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Mobile Telecommunications Wireless 100

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. customer information. million US customers appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

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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Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Insurance 82

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

A database containing the personal information of more than 8.9 million Zacks Investment Research users was leaked on a cybercrime forum. A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. ” reported HIBP.

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Data breaches Passwords Cybercrime Encryption 84

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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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. According to the company, most of the username and password combinations are available for free, and 5 billion of the above credentials are “unique.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybercrime Antivirus Marketing Accountability 117

Security Affairs

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 million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Advertising Cybercrime Passwords 73

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

A threat actor has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange and hunting sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a hacker has leaked online the databases of Utah-based gun exchange for free on a cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes login names, hashed passwords, and email addresses.

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Hacking Data breaches Cybercrime Passwords 140

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2024

Threat actors breached over 19,000 online accounts on a California state platform dedicated to welfare programs. Officials reported that the security breach occurred on February 9, when someone logged into some BenefitsCal users’ accounts. Threat actors exploited reused passwords obtained from third-party websites.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain. The attack took place on May 23, 2023 and the Play ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the data breach. ” reads the report.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Cybercrime Hacking Data breaches Banking 212

SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

The global average data breach cost is $4.24 Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. This means that most cyberattacks could be prevented by following simple cybersecurity best practices, such as using strong passwords, updating software, and avoiding phishing emails. trillion annually by 2025.

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