Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2023

At this time, the name of the government website was not publicly revealed because it is still leaking citizens’ data. The compromise of the above information exposes impacted citizens to identity theft e scams.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Tax Service agencies collect the personal and financial information of citizens, such data can be exploited by threat actors to carry out a broad range of fraudulent activities, including financial scams and identity theft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. The exposed data could expose users to multiple malicious activities, including identity theft & fraud, scams, phishing and malware attacks, and of course account abuse.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2018

That would be a pretty convincing scam. ” Concerned that his own information was similarly exposed, Sheehy contacted Jared parent company Signet Jewelers and asked them to fix the data exposure. .” But Lancaster said Signet neglected to remedy the data exposure for all past orders until contacted by KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

Why is leaking personal data dangerous? One of them is identity theft. Fraudsters may exploit the exposed personal information to impersonate the affected individuals and gain access to their financial accounts or other sensitive information. Leaked data might also lead to phishing scams.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The experts reported their findings to the company, but at the time of this writing, Clubhouse has yet to confirm the authenticity of the exposed data. Leak data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, such as phishing/spear-phishing attacks, identity theft, and scams.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Exposed records included the following information: Full name Address Residency status Passport number Phone number Tax ID number Employer name and phone number Tax amount. The exposed data could be used by threat actors to carry out tax scam and frauds. ” concludes the experts. ” concludes the experts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

” The impacted individuals are exposed to a broad range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, and scams. We have reported the incident to the appropriate regulatory authorities and will fully cooperate with any investigation or further actions required.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Leaked data could expose users to several malicious activities, including scams, identity theft, blackmail and extortion, and of course attack takeover. An attacker could use these URLs to access a user’s profile on the dating site without the knowledge of the password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

These documents could be used to conduct scams and identity theft. The report also includes prices for forged documents and scans, the scan of a Russian passport goes $100, while a selfie of an American citizen with holding ID costs $120, an increase of $20 compared with 2021. Price USD (2021) Avg.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

.” Nicholas Weaver , a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and lecturer at UC Berkeley , said the API should have validated that the account making the request had permission to read the data requested. “It seems like the only access control they had in place was that you were logged in at all.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Each data set would on its own provide valuable information for an attacker but combining all of them makes the threat much more formidable. Identity Theft and Fraud. The personal identifiable information (PII) exposed by the leak could be used in fraudulent authentication across other platforms.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in data breaches related to data stored in the cloud. This simplicity is what ultimately poses a danger to the owners of file repositories in AWS known as “buckets”, which are most often breached due to an incorrect system configuration.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

the data leak affects a large number of reservation platforms, including Amadeus, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotelbeds, Omnibees, and Sabre. According to the experts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Since the database includes sensitive data, i.e. name, mobile number, and PII, it makes the victims vulnerable to phishing campaigns, scams, and even identity theft. . If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. The entire leaked database consists of ~500K records.

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