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AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

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AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported.

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AT&T states that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers

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AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Telstra Telecom discloses data breach impacting former and current employees

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Bad news for the Australian telecommunications industry, the largest company in the country Telstra suffered a data breach. Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed a data breach through a third-party supplier. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies.

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

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The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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19-Year-Old man arrested for misusing leaked record from Optus Breach

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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. Early this week, the company confirmed that the breach impacted nearly 2.1 The database belonging to the company was leaked on a cybercrime forum. million individuals.

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Lapsus$ ransomware gang hits Impresa, Portugal’s largest media conglomerate

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The attack did not impact radio and cable TV broadcasts, while SIC’s internet streaming transmission was interrupted. Early this month, the ransomware gang hit the websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) causing the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. Source TheRecord. Pierluigi Paganini.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

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In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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