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The Data Breach "Personal Stash" Ecosystem

Troy Hunt

That's the analogy I often use to describe the data breach "personal stash" ecosystem, but with one key difference: if you trade a baseball card then you no longer have the original card, but if you trade a data breach which is merely a digital file, it replicates.

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Bank of America warns customers of data breach after vendor hack

Bleeping Computer

Bank of America is warning customers of a data breach exposing their personal information after one of its service providers was hacked last year. [.]

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Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Security Affairs

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was compromised in an attack targeting a third-party service provider. The hacked third-party company manages the Acer employee attendance data.

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OWASP discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. No joke, we did have a data breach in late March involving the resumes of our earliest members.

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Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

Security Affairs

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin disclosed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 individuals. The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification shared with the Maine Attorney General.

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PandaBuy data breach allegedly impacted over 1.3 million customers

Security Affairs

Threat actors claimed the hack of the PandaBuy online shopping platform and leaked data belonging to more than 1.3 At least two threat actors claimed the hack of the PandaBuy online shopping platform and leaked data of more than 1.3 The website was breached by @ Sanggiero and @ IntelBroker.”

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

What it boils down to is in August 2021, someone with a proven history of breaching large organisations posted what they claimed were 70 million AT&T records to a popular hacking forum and asked for a very large amount of money should anyone wish to purchase the data.