Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

GB worth of data) related to guests at various hotels around the world. Exposed data, some of which go back to 2013, include sensitive information and credit card details. In some cases, each record contained data for multiple hotel guests that were part of a single reservation. According to the experts.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As a result, all 143 million US victims are at greater risk of identity theft, and will remain at risk for years to come. And those who suffer identify theft will have problems for months, if not years, as they work to clean up their name and credit rating. The company's incident response after the breach was similarly damaging.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The WBSC, headquartered in Switzerland, was established in 2013 and currently has 141 countries as members located in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. According to the team, having passport data exposed puts individuals at risk of identity theft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. And yet, according to Norton , data breaches for 2019 included 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches, 4.1 MFA awareness is not new to CISOs or IT teams.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2021

Breach fatigue is a real concern for cybersecurity leaders who are trying to communicate that security is everyone's responsibility. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken. After all, how bad could it really be?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As we continue to dissect the massive data breach at Target , we’re going to learn lots of lessons. And apart from the hit the company will take on its reputation and brand, security experts expect that the cost of just responding to the data breach could be huge.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Identity theft is the number one crime in America, a crime that claims an average of more than a million new victims every 30 days. A data breach can be a very costly event, and an increasing number of these breaches are happening at smaller firms. Here’s just a sample: There were an estimated 13.1

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Geico said the data was used by thieves involved in fraudulently applying for unemployment insurance benefits. Many states now require drivers license numbers as a way of verifying an applicant’s identity. That service was run by a Vietnamese hacker who’d told the Experian subsidiary he was a private investigator.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The motion picture acquisition agreements, tax ID requests, and contract addendum scans all date between 2013 and 2016. Acquiring someone’s social security number or employer identification number is one of the first steps toward committing identity theft. Disclosure.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Breach fatigue is a real concern for cybersecurity leaders who are trying to communicate that security is everyone's responsibility. After so many data breaches in the news, many end-users begin to wonder if it really matters when their personal information or user credentials are taken. After all, how bad could it really be?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s a heartwarming tale of multiple mass data compromises, which affected yours truly. We’ll also discuss how major data breaches occur, and what you can do to protect yourself in the Age of the Large Data Breach. The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 27, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#212), Brandon Hoffman, the CISO of Intel 471 joins us to discuss that company’s latest report that looks at China’s diversified marketplace for stolen data and stolen identities. Data leaks, data breaches and data dumps are so common these days that they don’t even attract that much attention.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Safe and Secure Federal Websites Act was first introduced as a bill in 2013 and was finally passed into law in July of this year. Malware is now the favorite weapon for all kinds of attackers, from state sponsored cyber war, to industrial espionage, fraud, identity theft and just about any other cybercrime you can think of.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. This is valuable personal data that can be used for anything from targeted advertising to identity theft in extreme cases.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our products enable them to minimize the risk of data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance by proactively reducing the exposure of sensitive data and promptly detecting policy violations and suspicious user behavior. Founded: 2013. Learn more about Netwrix. Headquarters: Cambridge, UK. Annual Revenue: $278 million.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2022

Cybercrime statistics from Dataprot states that 60 million Americans have experienced identity theft, highlighting the importance of destroying data completely. It isn’t simply a matter of data security. A data breach will cost a company vital revenue and client trust. Destruction options.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More niche examples of doxing include: Breach Doxing : the unintentional dropping of documents via a data breach or leak. Personal details about users – whether inadvertently available on social media or through a data breach on a long inactive account – are everywhere, giving persistent threat actors plenty to utilize.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 30, 2021

Identity theft topped the list for both groups at 51%, with fake vaccine cards that could be used to hack smartphones (Americans 45%, British 44%) and data breaches (Americans 44%, Brits 45%) close behind. Among key findings: 80% of Americans and 76% of those in the U.K. Learn more at www.anomali.com.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to the university, the potential breached information included names, medical information, SSN, Medicare numbers, health plan IDs, birthdays and physical addresses.The network made this announcement two months after the data breach was discovered. million from $94.4 million to $237 million over the next five years.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Media scrutiny eventually leads the consumer data broker, which has since been purchased by LexisNexis, to reveal another 128,000 people had information compromised. . Media scrutiny eventually leads the consumer data broker, which has since been purchased by LexisNexis, to reveal another 128,000 people had information compromised. .

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