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Government contractor Conduent disclosed a data breach

Security Affairs

Conduent suffered another security breach in 2020 by the Maze ransomware gang, which stole corporate data. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach)

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Welcoming the Bulgarian Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Data breaches impact us all as individuals, companies and as governments. Over the last 4 years, I've been providing additional access to data breach information in Have I Been Pwned for government agencies responsible for protecting their citizens.

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The Data Breach Disclosure Conundrum

Troy Hunt

As it relates to the UK GDPR, there are two essential concepts to understand, and they're the first two bulleted items in their personal data breaches guide : The UK GDPR introduces a duty on all organisations to report certain personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority.

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Welcoming the North Macedonian Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

In my ongoing bid to make more useful information on data breaches available to impacted national governments , today I'm very happy to welcome the 32nd national CERT to Have I Been Pwned, the Republic of North Macedonia!

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Welcoming the Dutch Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Today I'm very happy to welcome the Dutch government to HIBP, marking 24 national CERTs that now have full and free access to API level domain searches. Visibility into the impact of data breaches helps defenders protect national assets and I'm very pleased to see the Netherlands join so many other nations in taking up this service.

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Welcoming the German Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.

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Researchers discovered the largest data breach ever, exposing 16 billion login credentials

Security Affairs

Researchers discovered the largest data breach ever, exposing 16 billion login credentials, likely due to multiple infostealers. Researchers announced the discovery of what appears to be the largest data breach ever recorded, with an astonishing 16 billion login credentials exposed. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”)