CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 5, 2022

San Francisco Federal Court convicted Joe Sullivan, the Ex- CEO of Uber, for hiding a massive data breach that took place in the year 2016. The post Uber CEO convicted for hiding 2016 data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. More details will be updated shortly! .

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Joe Sullivan schemed to hide a 2016 breach of 57 million users’ information shortly after he was hired. The post Former Uber CSO found guilty of obstruction in attempted data breach cover-up appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. The government argued that Sullivan should have informed the FTC of the 2016 incident, but instead went out of his way to conceal it from them. “Despite the fact that Mr.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined US hotels group Marriott over the 2018 data breach that affected millions of customers worldwide. million) for multiple data breaches suffered by the company since 2018 that exposed the personal information of its customers. million ($23.5 According to the U.K.’s

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sizable fines assessed for data breaches since 2019 suggest that regulators are getting more serious about organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Marriott was hit with a $124 million fine, later reduced, while Equifax agreed to pay a minimum of $575 million for its 2017 breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Japanese electronics and IT giant NEC confirmed a security breach suffered by its defense business division in December 2016. The IT giant NEC confirmed that the company defense business division has suffered a security breach back in December 2016. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If you had a Yahoo account between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016, you may be entitled to a bit of money.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

. “On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. A redacted portion of the CIA’s report on the Wikileaks breach. DIVIDED WE STAND, UNITED WE FALL.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The security incident was the latest to affect the service in recent times in the wake of unauthorized access to its development environment in August last year , serious vulnerabilities in 2017 , a phishing attack in 2016 , and a data breach in 2015. To read this article in full, please click here

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Threatpost

AUGUST 21, 2020

Joseph Sullivan allegedly paid off $100K to the hackers responsible for a 2016 data breach, which exposed PII of 57 million passengers and drivers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Users can check if their data have been exposed in the StreetEasy and Sephora data breaches. 87% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2022

Data breaches can be quite a complicated issue for organizations. Disclose the breach, notify those affected, and talk with your security team about how to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. T-Mobile data breach. The company disclosed the data breach quickly after discovering it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”. SecurityAffairs – Yahoo data breach, settlement).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is investigating a data breach affecting system and employee security. “After completing careful review of the data, ICAO can now confirm that 11,929 individuals are affected. The data breach has not been previously disclosed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2023

ICICI Bank, an Indian bank with a business presence in over 15 countries, has become a victim of a data breach, leaking information of more than 3.8 The post Indian ICICI Bank data breach exposes 3.8 million customers or 38 lakh customers. million customer information appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 19, 2024

Every single week since the 23rd of September in 2016 regardless of location, health, stress and all sorts of other crazy things that have gone on in my life for nearly the last 8 years now, I've done a video. This is the 400th time I've sat down in front of the camera and done one of these videos. Learn more here.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

While everyday users might already know about some of the largest breaches in recent history— AT&T comes to mind —it can be nearly impossible to keep track of every single company that has lost user data in the past. million people affected by the breach of Rite Aid , to the 1.7

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot. ” reads the data breach notification published by Marriot. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 20, 2020

Nearly 7 years ago now, I started a little pet project to index data breaches and make them searchable. I called it "Have I Been Pwned" and I loaded in 154M breached records which to my mind, was rather sizeable. Time went by, the breaches continued and the numbers rose. It's been a fun little project ??

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. In 2016, the company warned its 9.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Syniverse service provider discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016 and gained some customers’ credentials. Syniverse discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016. ” states Motherboard. ” states the SEC filing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2023

Joe Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Uber, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for covering up a cyber attack on the company’s servers in 2016, which led to a data breach affecting over 50 million riders and drivers.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

Marriott International has confirmed that it was victim to another data breach, its third since 2018, as an anonymous group of threat actors says it was able to successfully exfiltrate 20 GB of data, which includes credit card and other confidential information. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times and, well.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 23, 2022

About 495,398 students and 57,158 employee records belonging to the 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 school years were leaked in the attack. The post Ransomware Attack Leads to a data breach at Chicago Public Schools appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 20, 2024

Whether they're from a stealer as in this week's Naz.API incident, or just aggregated from multiple data breaches (which is also in Naz.API), I inevitably get some backlash after loading them: "this doesn't tell me anything useful, why are you loading this?!" They're an odd thing, credential lists.

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Elie

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4 billion usernames and passwords exposed via data breaches and traded on blackmarket forums. million potential victims of phishing kits; and 1.9

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. The last time that happened in 2016, the error rate peaked at about a third of all requests. was there more traffic back then?

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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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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Joe Sullivan's lawyers have claimed his conviction on two felony charges is based on tenuous theories and criminalizes the use of bug bounty programs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The UK’s data privacy regulator plans to fine giant hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million ($123 million) under GDPR over 2014 data breach. ’s Information Commissioner’s Office, Marriott International was not compliant to the European Union’s data protection regulation GDPR.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Attackers also obtained portions of credit card customer data, including: . Pierluigi Paganini.

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