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Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers

Identity IQ

Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers IdentityIQ Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers Dell recently announced its investigation into a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 49 million customers. How Did This Data Breach Happen?

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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. The data never began circling within the usual hacking groups, it never turned up publicly and thus never appeared in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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City of Philadelphia suffers a data breach

Security Affairs

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. Potentially affected Individuals are recommended to remain vigilant against fraudulent activities such as identity theft and scam attempts. Department of Health and Human Service.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Krebs on Security

There was no reason to believe Holistic-K1ller had fabricated their breach claim. This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities. That same month, they also sold data on 1.4 “Who does it?

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Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords

Krebs on Security

Here’s a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The basic elements of this sextortion scam email have been around for some time, and usually the only thing that changes with this particular message is the Bitcoin address that frightened targets can use to pay the amount demanded.

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Staples discloses data breach exposing customer order data

Security Affairs

Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization.

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JD Sports discloses a data breach impacting 10 million customers

Security Affairs

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020.