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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,databreach)
Databreaches impact us all as individuals, companies and as governments. Over the last 4 years, I've been providing additional access to databreach information in Have I Been Pwned for government agencies responsible for protecting their citizens.
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 databreaches guide : The UK GDPR introduces a duty on all organisations to report certain personal databreaches to the relevant supervisory authority.
In my ongoing bid to make more useful information on databreaches 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!
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 databreaches helps defenders protect national assets and I'm very pleased to see the Netherlands join so many other nations in taking up this service.
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 databreaches.
Researchers discovered the largest databreach ever, exposing 16 billion login credentials, likely due to multiple infostealers. Researchers announced the discovery of what appears to be the largest databreach ever recorded, with an astonishing 16 billion login credentials exposed. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”)
US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY warns customers of leaked IDs and passports following a November databreach. US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY disclosed a databreach after a vendor’s point-of-sale system was compromised by cybercriminals.
They are now the 26th government to have complete and free API level access to query their government domains. Providing governments with greater visibility into the impact of databreaches on their staff helps protect against all manner of online attacks.
After suffering two large, and embarrassing, databreaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious databreaches from $2.2 The problem is one of incentives, and Australia has now increased the incentive for companies to secure the personal data or their users and customers.
Today I'm very happy to welcome the Finnish government to Have I Been Pwned by granting their National Cyber Security Centre full and free access to query their government domains. API access to query their domains will give them greater visibility into the impact of databreaches on the Finnish government.
Today I'm very happy to announce the arrival of the 15th government to Have I Been Pwned, Romania. As of now, CERT-RO has access to query all Romanian government domains across HIBP and subscribe them for future notifications when subsequent databreaches affect aliases on those domains.
This week as part of the ongoing initiative to make breachdata available to national governments, I'm very happy to welcome the national CERT of Uruguay, CERTuy. They are now the 2nd Latin American country and 20th country worldwide to have free and easy API level access to all their government domains.
Today I'm very happy to welcome the 16th government to Have I Been Pwned, Sweden. The Swedish National Computer Security Incident Response Team CERT-SE now has full and free access to query all government domains via HIBP's API and gain insights into the impact of databreaches on their government departments.
Today, we're happy to welcome the Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned as the 38th government to be onboarded with full and free access to their government domains. Our goal at HIBP remains very straightforward: to do good things with databreaches after bad things happen.
Supporting national CERTs with free API domain searches across their assets is becoming an increasing focus for Have I Been Pwned and today I'm happy to welcome the 19th government on board, Belgium.
UnitedHealth says it now estimates that the databreach on its subsidiary Change Healthcare affected 190 million people, nearly doubling its previous estimate from October. According to BleepingComputer , the original attackers joined forces with RansomHub and never deleted the data. Check the vendors advice.
Today I'm very happy to welcome the first Caribbean government to Have I Been Pwned, Trinidad & Tobago. As of today, the Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) has full and free access to query their government domains and gain visibility into where they've impacted by databreaches.
Today I'm very happy to welcome the 23rd national government to Have I Been Pwned, the Slovak Republic. has full and free access to query all their government domains via an API that returns all their email addresses impacted by each databreach in HIBP. As of now, CSIRT.sk
For the last few years, I've been welcome national governments to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and granting them full and free access to domain-level searches via a dedicated API. Databreaches impact all of us in one way or another, and government agencies are no exception.
Supporting national governments has been a major cornerstone of Have I Been Pwned for the last 4 years. Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 31st government on board, Serbia! The National CERT and the Gov-CERT of the Republic of Serbia now has free and complete access to query their government domains via API.
On Monday, November 11, Amazon confirmed a databreach that impacted its employee data. The breach, linked to the infamous MOVEit Transfer vulnerability, underscores the far-reaching consequences of last year's major supply chain attack. Oil behemoth Shell was among those affected , for instance.
Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I'm very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query their government domains.
Compromising our telecommunications infrastructure is now little different from performing any other kind of computer intrusion or databreach, a well-known and endemic cybersecurity problem. government’s investigation is in its early stages. CNN and The Washington Post also confirmed the intrusions and that the U.S.
Over the last 6 years, we've been very happy to welcome dozens of national governments to have unhindered access to their domains in Have I Been Pwned , free from cost and manual verification barriers.
A non-profit that benefits millions of people has fallen victim to a databreach and a DDoS attack. It is often used for academic research and data analysis. Cybercriminals managed to breach the site and steal a user authentication database containing 31 million records. Check the vendor’s advice.
Reports from cybersecurity companies in 2023 show mixed trends regarding the number of global databreaches, ransomware attacks, records affected and government costs. But one thing is clear: Cyber attack impacts steadily grow.
A ransomware attack on grocery giant Ahold Delhaize led to a databreach that affected more than 2.2 A ransomware attack on Dutch grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has led to a databreach affecting over 2.2 ” Ahold Delhaize determined that the databreach impacted 2,242,521 individuals and is notifying them. .
Laboratory Services Cooperative discloses a databreach from October 2024 that exposed personal and medical info of 1.6 Laboratory Services Cooperative disclosed a databreach that impacted the personal and medical information of 1.6 ” reads the notice of databreach. million individuals.
Last week, I wrote about The State of DataBreaches and got loads of feedback. Let me explain: Hackers This is where most databreaches begin, with someone illegally accessing a protected system and snagging the data. It's awkward, talking to the first party responsible for the breach.
Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known databreach of protected health information. which suffered a databreach in 2015 affecting 78.8
The Hertz Corporation, on behalf of Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty brands, is sending breach notifications to customers who may have had their name, contact information, driver’s license, andin rare casesSocial Security Number exposed in a databreach. Check the vendors advice.
Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. The authorities launched an investigation after the ransomware gang Ransomhub claimed the attack and published samples of personal information from a database of government.
Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,databreach) Emergency care and patient admissions remained unaffected during the incident. RUMC offered 12 months of free credit monitoring to those individuals with compromised Social Security numbers.
For the last 4 years, I've been providing API-level access to national government agencies so that they can search and monitor their government domains on Have I Been Pwned. Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 29th government to join the service, Italy!
Port of Seattle is notifying 90,000 people of a databreach after personal data was stolen in a ransomware attack in August 2024. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.
Special Operations Command (PDF), demanding that the government turn over information collected about him and seeking restitution for his alleged kidnapping at the hands of the CIA. Since then, Binns has filed a flood of lawsuits naming various federal agencies — including the FBI , the CIA , and the U.S.
The Rhysida Ransomware gang claims the hack of the Government of Peru, the gang breached Gob.pe, the Single Digital Platform of the Peruvian State. The Rhysida ransomware gang claims responsibility for hacking the Government of Peru, breaching Gob.pe, which is the country’s official digital platform.
IBM’s recent Cost of a DataBreach report found that the average cost of a databreach in Australia reached a record-high in 2024. Explore additional key findings and how the Australian government is mitigating these threats.
notifies customers of credit card databreach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a databreach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce.
February 2025 saw a series of high-impact databreaches affecting industries ranging from healthcare and finance to cloud services and government agencies. These incidents exposed sensitive data, disrupted operations, and. The post Top DataBreaches of February 2025 appeared first on Strobes Security.
Resecurity found a breach in Brazil’s CIEE One platform, exposing PII and documents, later sold by data broker “888” on the dark web. According to the expert statistics, 41% of cloud breaches a re caused by misconfigurations, with exposed buckets being a leading contributor.
If a company you do business with becomes part of a databreach, cybercriminals may have full access to your confidential information. Unfortunately, databreaches are on the rise and affecting more companies and consumers than ever. billion people received notices that their information was exposed in a databreach.
Hertz Corporation disclosed a databreach after customer data was stolen via Cleo zero-day exploits in late 2024, affecting Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands. Car rental giant Hertz Corporation disclosed a databreach that impacted its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands.
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