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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

This isn't unusual: "fresh" data has much greater commercial value and is often tightly held for a long period before being released into the public domain. Per the linked story, social security numbers and dates of birth exist on most rows of the data in encrypted format, but two supplemental files expose these in plain text.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Only 17% of organizations encrypt at least half of their sensitive cloud data

SC Magazine

A woman speaking on a mobile phone walks past a cloud computing presentation ahead of the CeBIT technology trade fair in 2012. While this raises some concerns, the Thales 2021 Data Threat Report , based on a study by 451 Research, pointed to some improvement in regulated industries. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? " It means "this is private."

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Security firm accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion previously leaked records

Security Affairs

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records

Krebs on Security

14, KrebsOnSecurity alerted GovPayNet that its site was exposing at least 14 million customer receipts dating back to 2012. E-commerce sites can mitigate such leaks by using something other than easily-guessed or sequential record numbers, and/or encrypting unique portions of the URL displayed to customers upon payment.

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