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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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Hackers target Roku: 15,000 accounts compromised in data breach

Graham Cluley

Streaming company Roku has revealed that over 15,000 customers' accounts were hacked using stolen login credentials from unrelated data breaches. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people

Security Affairs

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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Plex discloses data breach and urges password reset

Security Affairs

The streaming media platform Plex is urging its users to reset passwords after threat actors gained access to its database. The company disclosed a data breach after threat actors have access to a limited subset of data stored in a compromised database. Exposed data includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.

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Freecycle data breach impacted 7 Million users

Security Affairs

The nonprofit organization Freecycle Network (Freecycle.org) confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7 million users. The security breach was discovered on August 30, exposed data includes usernames, User IDs, email addresses and passwords.

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Samsung suffered a new data breach

Security Affairs

Samsung Electronics disclosed a data breach that exposed customer personal information to an unauthorized individual. Samsung Electronics suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of some of its customers to an unauthorized individual. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ personal information. Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors.

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