Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY warns customers of leaked IDs and passports following a November data breach. US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY disclosed a data breach after a vendor’s point-of-sale system was compromised by cybercriminals. The exposed information varies for each individual case.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 6, 2025

A US chain of dental offices known as Westend Dental LLC denied a 2020 ransomware attack and its associated data breach, instead telling their customers that data was lost due to an accidentally formatted hard drive. No physical safeguards were implemented to limit access to servers containing patient data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

A data breach suffered by the Japanese telecom giant NTT exposed information of nearly 18,000 corporate customers. Japanese telecom giant NTT suffered a data breach that exposed information of nearly 18,000 corporate customers. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2025

The Change Healthcare data breach is worse than initially estimated: approximately 190 million people have been affected. The Change Healthcare data breach is worse than initially estimated, the incident has impacted 190 million people. According to the Associated Press, UnitedHealth booked $1.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2025

Oracle confirms a cloud data breach, quietly informing customers while downplaying the impact of the security breach. Oracle confirms a data breach and started informing customers while downplaying the impact of the incident.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Recent cybersecurity statistics indicate that data breaches are escalating into a significant international concern. This underscores the need not only for strong preventive measures to protect critical information but also for a well-defined strategy to contain the damage if attackers successfully breach your defenses.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2025

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. The company founded in 2001 offers prepaid and postpaid mobile plans, data bundles and internet services, fiber broadband, roaming and international calling, SIM-only plans and device deals.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Huge increase in numbers As we reported in July , the number of data breach victims went up 1,170% in Q2 2024, compared to Q2 2023 (from 81,958,874 victims to 1,041,312,601). The huge increase is no big surprise if you look at the size of some of these breaches. Dell notifies customers about data breach (49 million customers) 4.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2025

The business services provider Conduent told the SEC a January cyberattack exposed personal data, including names and Social Security numbers. The business services provider Conduent revealed that personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, was stolen in a January cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2025

Luxury-goods conglomerate Cartier disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information after a cyberattack. Cartier has disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack that compromised its systems, exposing customers’ personal information.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On Monday, November 11, Amazon confirmed a data breach 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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The investigation aimed to determine the extent of the activity, and whether individual personal information, if any, may have been accessed or acquired by an unauthorized third party. As part of the investigation, we engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts experienced in handling these types of incidents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

California Cryobank, the largest US sperm bank, suffered a data breach exposing customer information. The company disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. ” reads the data breach notification letter shared with Maine Attorney General.”Out

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2025

Researchers discovered the largest data breach ever, exposing 16 billion login credentials, likely due to multiple infostealers. Researchers announced the discovery of what appears to be the largest data breach ever recorded, with an astonishing 16 billion login credentials exposed. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2025

“Our investigation was done in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals who regularly investigate and analyze these types of situations to help determine whether any sensitive data had been compromised because of the incident. ” reads the incident notice published by the RUMC.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Grubhub recently confirmed a data breach stemming from a third-party vendor, exposing the ongoing risks associated with supply chain security.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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 data breach of protected health information. which suffered a data breach in 2015 affecting 78.8

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2025

A ransomware attack on grocery giant Ahold Delhaize led to a data breach that affected more than 2.2 A ransomware attack on Dutch grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has led to a data breach affecting over 2.2 ” Ahold Delhaize determined that the data breach impacted 2,242,521 individuals and is notifying them. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Meta has been fined 251M ($263M) for a 2018 data breach affecting millions in the EU, marking another penalty for violating privacy laws. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta 251 million ($263M) for a 2018 data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the HHS confirmed that it prioritized and opened investigations of Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group, focused on whether a breach of protected health information (PHI) occurred and on the entities’ compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Rules.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

Coinbase said rogue contractors stole data on under 1% of users and demanded $20M; the data breach was disclosed in an SEC filing. On May 11, 2025, the company received a ransom demand from a threat actor claiming to have customer and internal data. ” reads the filing with SEC. The final impact remains under review.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2025

The ransomware attack that hit McLaren Health Care in 2024 exposed the personal data of 743,000 individuals. McLaren Health Care is notifying over 743,000 people of a data breach discovered on August 5, 2024. ” reads the data breach notification letter shared with the Maine Attorney General’s Office.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2025

Laboratory Services Cooperative discloses a data breach from October 2024 that exposed personal and medical info of 1.6 Laboratory Services Cooperative disclosed a data breach that impacted the personal and medical information of 1.6 “The specific information involved is not the same for everyone.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2025

Port of Seattle is notifying 90,000 people of a data breach 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. — Seattle-Tacoma Intl. .”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2025

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 data breach. Check the vendors advice. Set up identity monitoring.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2025

“This database contained a significant volume of chat history, backend data and sensitive information, including log streams, API Secrets, and operational details.” It was hosted at oauth2callback.deepseek.com:9000 and dev.deepseek.com:9000.” ” reads the report published by Wiz. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tip 1: Educating and Training the Workforce Regularly Human error remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. According to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report , 68% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. Many cyber attacks exploit vulnerabilities in outdated software.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2025

AT&T is set to pay $177 million to customers affected by two significant data breaches. These breaches exposed sensitive personal information of millions of current and former AT&T customers. Later reports indicated this breach started in 2019. If you see a green bubble then your data was not exposed.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Employment screening company DISA Global Solutions has filed a data breach notification after a cyber incident on their network. The attacker may have accessed over three million files containing personal information. These data brokers gather information from several sources and sell them on to interested buyers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Peruvian Interbank confirmed a data breach after threat actors accessed its systems and leaked stolen information online. Interbank disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the hack of the organization and leaked stolen data online. ” reads the statement published by the company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2025

Hertz Corporation disclosed a data breach 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 data breach that impacted its Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands. In January, a spokesperson for U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2025

Qantas has also set up a dedicated support line and webpage to keep customers informed, and will provide ongoing updates through its website and social media. “We Our customers trust us with their personal information and we take that responsibility seriously. “We ” Qantas Group Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson said.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

French internet service provider (ISP) Free disclosed a cyber attack, threat actors allegedly had access to customer personal information. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. The seller also published a sample of the stolen data and some screenshots. Free S.A.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Despite being informed weeks prior, the organization’s failure to rotate exposed API keys, particularly the Zendesk token with access to over 800,000 support tickets, reflects poor incident response. Poor cyber hygiene increases the risk of further data breaches and could undermine user trust.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. “We have been playing cat and mouse for a while with these guys,” said Matt Sciberras , chief information security officer at Invicti.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Data breaches and account hacks are a growing concern for users, especially with the personal and professional information shared on the platform. If youre worried about your Instagram account being hacked , it's essential to take proactive steps to protect your data. Revoke access to any app you no longer use or trust.

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