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Massive Data Breach at Uber

Schneier on Security

It’s big : The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber’s internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York Times.

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Australia Increases Fines for Massive Data Breaches

Schneier on Security

After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 Uncategorized Australia cyberattack data breaches incentives

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Massive Brazilian Data Breach

Schneier on Security

I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. Lots more stories are in Portuguese

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T-Mobile Data Breach

Schneier on Security

It’s a big one : As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000.

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Barnes & Noble Experiences Major Data Breach

Adam Levin

Barnes & Noble has confirmed a data breach following a cyberattack that took many of their services offline. . The email also indicated that customer transaction histories may have been compromised, meaning that information about their purchases may be included in the breached data.

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Carnival Announces Data Breach Following Ransomware Attack

Adam Levin

Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise ship company in the world, announced that it had experienced a data breach following a ransomware attack on their systems. The post Carnival Announces Data Breach Following Ransomware Attack appeared first on Adam Levin.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Krebs on Security

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

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Data Breach occurs at Stanford University

CyberSecurity Insiders

Stanford University, one of the top ranked Universities of the United States and world, has become a victim to a cyber attack leading to data leak or unauthorized access of sensitive information. Details are in that the data leak of students pursuing Economics PH.D

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CommonSpirit confirms data breach impacts 623K patients

Security Affairs

CommonSpirit Health confirmed that the October security breach resulted in the exposure of the personal data of 623,774 patients. The security breach led to delayed surgeries, hold-ups in patient care and forced the chain to reschedule doctor appointments across the country.

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MGM Data Breach Affects Over 10 Million Customers

Adam Levin

MGM Resorts confirmed the leaked data as being the result of a data breach that occurred last year. We are confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.”. Data Security Data breach Technology featured data breach hotel mgm

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. A sales thread tied to the allegedly stolen T-Mobile customer data. ” Data Breaches IntelSecrets IRDev John Erin Binn T-Mobile Und0xxed V0rtex

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How Much Does a Data Breach Cost?

Security Boulevard

According to IBM's Annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 , the average cost of a data breach is around $4.24 So what makes data breaches so costly, are business leaders aware of the risks, and what can be done to prevent breaches? .

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Customer Information leaks in LastPass Data Breach

CyberSecurity Insiders

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company. News enterprises LastPass Data Breach

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Data Breach Numbers, Costs and Impacts All Rise in 2021

Lohrman on Security

By almost any measure, the breadth, depth and impact of data breaches have dramatically increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a roundup of the numbers

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Impact of Samsung’s most recent data breach unknown

Tech Republic Security

The lack of transparency could be cause for concern, but the data stolen is not high value. The post Impact of Samsung’s most recent data breach unknown appeared first on TechRepublic. Mobility Security data breach gdpr samsung

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Data Breach Misattribution, Acxiom & Live Ramp

Troy Hunt

Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. So, I reviewed the data and concluded. Is this a US-only data set?

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Businesses Bolster Defenses as Data Breach Concerns Grow

Security Boulevard

More than three-quarters (77%) of IT decision makers are concerned about the likely risk of a data breach within the next three years, according to an Adastra report. The post Businesses Bolster Defenses as Data Breach Concerns Grow appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

Naked Security

Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round. Data loss Privacy data breach LastPass

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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

Krebs on Security

I’m not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear they wouldn’t know what to do with a data breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.

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GoDaddy discloses a new data breach

Security Affairs

GoDaddy discloses a security breach, threat actors have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers in a long-runing attack. The security breach was discovered in December 2022 after customer reported that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains.

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Independent Living Systems data breach impacts more than 4M individuals

Security Affairs

US health services company Independent Living Systems (ILS) discloses a data breach that impacted more than 4 million individuals. ” reads the Notice of Data breach published by the company.

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IBM Cost of a Data Breach study: average Cost of Data Breach exceeds $4.2M

Security Affairs

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 The study highlights the significant impact of the ongoing pandemic on the cost of data breaches and the effort to contain them.

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Retail giant Woolworths discloses data breach of MyDeal online marketplace

Security Affairs

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

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NASA Announces Data Breach

Adam Levin

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it experienced a data breach in October. In an internal memo sent to employees, the agency disclosed that its “cybersecurity personnel began investigating a possible compromise of NASA servers,” and that they had “determined that information from one of the servers containing Social Security numbers and other PII data of current and former NASA employees may have been compromised.”.

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Retailer WH Smith discloses data breach after a cyberattack

Security Affairs

Retailer WH Smith disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack, threat actors had access to access company data. Retailer WH Smith revealed that threat actors have breached its infrastructure and had access to the data of about 12,500 current and former employees.

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OpenSubtitles data breach impacted 7 million subscribers

Security Affairs

OpenSubtitles has suffered a data breach, the maintainers confirmed that the incident impacted 7 Million subscribers. OpenSubtitles is a popular subtitles websites, it suffered a data breach that affected 6,783,158 subscribers.

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Dole discloses data breach after February ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Dole Food Company confirmed that threat actors behind the recent ransomware attack had access to employees’ data.

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The Unattributable "db8151dd" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

It's about a data breach with almost 90GB of personal information in it across tens of millions of records - including mine. My delving into the breach began back in Feb with a tweet: I'm trying to trace down the origin of a *massive* breach someone sent me.

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T-Mobile suffered a new data breach

Security Affairs

T-Mobile discloses a new data breach that impacted a “very small number of customers” who were victim of SIM swap attacks. T-Mobile has suffered another security breach, threat actors gained access to the accounts of “a small number of” customers.’.

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Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide

WIRED Threat Level

Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers.

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Australia’s Casino Giant Crown Resorts disclosed data breach after Clop ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Australia’s gambling and entertainment giant Crown Resorts, disclosed a data breach caused by the exploitation of recently discovered GoAnywhere zero-day. Australian casino giant Crown Resorts disclosed a data breach after the attack of the Cl0p ransomware group.

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Uber Data Breach is Worst Case Scenario

Security Boulevard

Reading Time: 6 minutes On Thursday, September 15, Uber, the ride-sharing giant, had a security incident after reports claimed a hacker had breached its internal network. Uber’s current data breach is severe and wide-ranging, spreading access across their […].

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MGM Data Breach Ten Times Larger Than Initially Reported

Adam Levin

The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially reported. The records themselves were aggregated from previous data breaches and leaks.

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Worst Healthcare Data Breaches of 2021

Security Boulevard

The post Worst Healthcare Data Breaches of 2021 appeared first on Sonrai Security. The post Worst Healthcare Data Breaches of 2021 appeared first on Security Boulevard. Healthcare is a highly sensitive and heavily regulated industry.

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Latitude Data breach is worse than initially estimated. 14 million individuals impacted

Security Affairs

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.

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Ubiquiti discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

American technology company Ubiquiti Networks is disclosed a data breach and is notifying its customers via email. The company is not aware of any access to any databases that were containing user data. The post Ubiquiti discloses a data breach appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IBM Report Reveals Economic Impact of Data Breaches

Security Boulevard

IBM published a report today that suggested data breaches are starting to have a material impact on the cost of goods and services. An IBM analysis of data breaches that occurred in 550 organizations found the average cost of a data breach has now reached an all-time high of $4.35

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NBA is warning fans of a data breach after a third-party newsletter service hack

Security Affairs

The NBA (National Basketball Association) disclosed a data breach after a third-party firm providing a newsletter service was breached. The data breach did not compromise usernames, passwords, and other information.

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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. As far as breaches go, it was a bit of a non-event. How many places did his personal data then flow to?

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Samsung discloses a second data breach this year

Security Affairs

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. Various other data, confidential source code from Qualcomm.

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American Airlines disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

American Airlines disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to an undisclosed number of employee email accounts. American Airlines recently suffered a data breach, threat actors compromised a limited number of employee email accounts.

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Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers

CyberSecurity Insiders

Accessed information includes data related to phone numbers, email accounts, addresses, names, the location where the order was delivered, and the final 4 digits of bank cards. The post Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Marriott Confirms Data Breach

Heimadal Security

The recent incident at Marriott is not the first time the company has been the victim of a massive data breach. The post Marriott Confirms Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.