Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

Marriott announced another data breach, this one affecting 5.2 name, mailing address, email address, and phone number) Loyalty Account Information (e.g., account number and points balance, but not passwords) Additional Personal Details (e.g., company, gender, and birthday day and month) Partnerships and Affiliations (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

T-Mobile discloses a new data breach that impacted a “very small number of customers” who were victim of SIM swap attacks. T-Mobile has suffered another security breach, threat actors gained access to the accounts of “a small number of” customers.’. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. This is when hackers try usernames and password combos leaked in data breaches at other companies, hoping that some users might have reused usernames and passwords across services. Without doubt, blame lies with them.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. Earlier this year, AT&T reset passwords for millions of customers after the company finally acknowledged a data breach from 2018 involving approximately 7.6

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Instead of addressing the security gaps that have plagued T-Mobile for years, they are offering their customers temporary identity protection when breaches happen, as if to say, ‘This is the best we can do.’. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Joshua Arsenio, Director, Security Compass Advisory.

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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

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million of its guests.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

I don't know how many data breaches I'm sitting on that I'm yet to process. Look for social media accounts that accept private communications. The data was sent to me and after inspecting it, I found identified 84k email addresses in the breach. Look for a contact us form. Look for publicised email addresses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. ” reads the statement published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Amazon was hit with a data breach just days before Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest shopping time of the year. The major data breach exposed names and email addresses of customers due to a technical error on their website. The number of customers affected by this is still unknown.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2023, the carrier disclosed two data breaches , one in January and another in May. The security breach impacted a limited number of customers, only 836 individuals. The carrier states that personal financial account information and call records were not affected by the security breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Now, reports are in that the database of the Pennsylvania based digital services provider was hit by a cyber attack leading to a data breach, thus leaking details to hackers. Going by the details, Xfinity email users started receiving email alerts that their account info was changed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Bad news for T-Mobile prepaid customer, the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a new data breach incident. The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 30, 2021

(A few years ago, the company was claiming to have one million users – which would put the number of exposed accounts at north of 10,000.). It’s not the first time that DigitalOcean has suffered a data breach that exposed customer information. ”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile is investigating a post made on an underground forum that claims 100 million user accounts have been compromised in a data breach. The hacker, who spoke with VICE's Motherboard in an online chat, said the data came from T-Mobile USA and involves "full customer info.". It is unknown if the data was actually sold.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

19 million Canadians are estimated to have been affected by data breaches between late 2018 and 2019, slightly more than half the population of the country. . Data breach reports have nearly sextupled since PIPEDA went into effect, with 446 incidents between November 2018 and June 2019. Read more here.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Software company OSIsoft has suffered a data breach, the firm confirmed that all domain accounts have likely been compromised. Software company OSIsoft notified security breach to employees, interns, consultants, and contractors. ” reads the data breach notification. Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? Have an affair." There are, of course, many nuances to the discussion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e. Securi ty Affairs – Dell data breach, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. ” In short, although you may not be required to create online accounts to manage your affairs at your ISP, the U.S. .”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2022

As Meta failed to comply with the latest GDPR rules of storing and processing user data, it has been slapped with the said penalty for which it could raise an objection within the next 45 calendar days. The post Meta faces $19m fine over Data Breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All the company’s social media accounts haven’t been updated since 2023 at the latest. Customers were only able to look at their test results online, these were not downloadable, so now they are not only unable to see them, but they also have no idea what has happened to that data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hacked accessed patients’ personal information after compromised the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. The archive did not contain financial data or clinical/medical information. The data breach impacted roughly 2.65 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 Million accounts back in April 2018. The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 million Emuparadise forum members. million Emuparadise forum members.

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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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Adam Levin

APRIL 6, 2020

Marriott International announced a data breach that may have exposed the information of 5.2 This is the second major data breach that Marriott has experienced in recent years; in 2018, the company announced that the information of 327 million customers of subsidiary Starwoodhad been compromised in a similar incident. .

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who now owns that data? The cat site?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Pluto TV user accounts on a hacking forum for free, he claims they were stolen by ShinyHunters threat actor. Bleeping Computer, which has validated the authenticity of the archive, reported that the latest record in the database was created on October 12th, 2018. accounts exposed appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Importantly, none appeared to have suffered the sorts of attacks that typically preface a high-dollar crypto heist, such as the compromise of one’s email and/or mobile phone accounts. “If you have my seed phrase, you can copy and paste that into your wallet, and then you can see all my accounts.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

With all that transpired over the last few months, and even with the SolarWinds cyberattack making headlines , it might be easy to forget that data breaches and hacks continue to expose the personal information of millions. This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft. million customer accounts.

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