Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. Early in 2013, Chinese hackers were easily able to breach the extensive defenses the Times had in place.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I've become more familiar with this sector over recent years due to the frequency with which it's been suffering data breaches that have ultimately landed in my inbox. i'm also the creator of the data breach aggregation service known as "have i been pwned".

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident and notified law enforcement and data protection watchdogs. “As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” reads a statement published by the company. India, and Africa.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The funds would cover some of the money Target paid to reimburse financial institutions for credit card replacement after the 2013 breach.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. million) were provided before 2013. 94% of these records (5.7

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

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Threatpost

APRIL 10, 2019

Yahoo is taking a second stab at settling a massive lawsuit regarding the data breaches that the Internet company faced between 2013 and 2016.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 28, 2023

The stalkerware company LetMeSpy has been hacked : TechCrunch reviewed the leaked data, which included years of victims’ call logs and text messages dating back to 2013. The database we reviewed contained current records on at least 13,000 compromised devices, though some of the devices shared little to no data with LetMeSpy.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

. “At the time, it was one of the largest breaches in U.S. As it happens, Rescator’s criminal hacking crew was directly responsible for the 2013 breach at Target and the 2014 hack of Home Depot. billion in 2013. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Pop quiz: What has been the most popular — and therefore least secure — password every year since 2013? Yes, tons of people still use “123456” as a password, according to NordPass's 200 most common passwords of the year for 2020, which is based on analysis of passwords exposed by data breaches.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 12, 2023

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. [.]

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2024

That link provides an excellent over so start there then come back to this blog post which adds some insight into the data and explains how HIBP fits into the picture. So, with that in mind, let's get into the mechanics of the data: In terms of the email addresses, there were 16.5M in total with 4.5M

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2013, Kurittu worked on investigation involving Kivimaki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimaki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet. “According to Vastaamo, the data breach in Vastaamo’s customer databases took place in November 2018,” Iltalehti reported last month.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

In January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled “the largest collection of stolen data in history.” “ Sanixer “) from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015, . ” reported the Reuters.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 9, 2018

One of the most alarming trends I've seen in the world of data breaches since starting Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) back in 2013 is the rapid rise of credential stuffing attacks. The Pemiblanc list contained 6.8 million email addresses that I've never seen in HIBP before.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA madhav Thu, 01/23/2025 - 06:25 Data Breaches in Healthcare: Why Stronger Regulations Matter A data breach involving personal health information isnt just about stolen filesits a gut punch to trust and a serious shake-up to peoples lives.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2019

million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a 2013 data breach. million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. billion in the Q4 2013. Tens of state attorneys general announced a $1.5

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2022

That might explain the actions of Allekabels , a large Dutch electronics web shop that suffered a data breach in 2021. Allekabels said a former employee had stolen data on 5,000 customers, and that those customers were then informed about the data breach by Allekabels.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Cost of a Machine Identity Data Breach with Yahoo! Consequences from the Yahoo Data Breach. Though it’s easy to focus on the cost of a data breach, the ramifications of Yahoo!’s s breach were vast and equally as destructive. accounts and other important data were targeted, Yahoo! billion to $4.48

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. In 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the U.S. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. l discovered an ElasticSearch database used by Ringostat which exposed over 800 GB of user data. The post Data Breach: Millions of Phone Numbers, Recordings, and Call Logs Compromised in Ringostat Data Leak appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So, while some lawsuits are spurred from regulations themselves, like the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), most lawsuits in this area come about as a result of a data breach. Back in 2013, it had been reported that hackers gained access to Target's payment card system through a third-party HVAC vendor.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves claims its proxy software is installed with user consent, but data exposed in the breach shows the service has a lengthy history of being supplied with new proxies by affiliates incentivized to distribute the software any which way they can — such as by secretly bundling it with other titles. io , and online[.]io.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh allege that in 2013 and 2014 Johnson hacked into the Oracle PeopleSoft databases for UPMC, a $21 billion nonprofit health enterprise that includes more than 40 hospitals.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Sadly, data breaches often occur at this time of year. Recently we’ve seen major news stories about breaches at Starwood Hotels and Quora. Related podcast: The need to lock down unstructured data. As I said, breaches cannot be 100 percent preventable, but there are a lot of ways to be proactive.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

Third-party risk management is important because failure to assess third-party risks exposes an organization to supply chain attacks , data breaches, and reputational damage. Cybersecurity risk : The risk of exposure or loss resulting from a cyberattack, data breach or other security incidents.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

2023 story here about how experts now believe it’s likely hackers are cracking open some of the password vaults stolen in the 2022 data breach at LastPass. For example, in 2013 the U.S. .” Bax’s research was featured in a Sept. “A big goal here is just making civil cases more efficient.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

” Launched in 2013, RSOCKS was shut down in June 2022 as part of an international investigation into the cybercrime service. Email spam — and in particular malicious email sent via compromised computers — is still one of the biggest sources of malware infections that lead to data breaches and ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

The man was found guilty of several offenses, which included aggravated data breach, 21,000 counts of aggravated blackmail attempts, and 9,200 counts of aggravated dissemination. This exploit was reported by Brian Krebs in September 2013, after the hackers breached the servers of LexisNexis, Kroll, and Dun & Bradstreet.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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