The Hacker News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined 251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what's the latest financial hit the company has taken for flouting stringent privacy laws.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it experienced a data breach in October. Federal agencies have been a consistent target for cyberattacks in recent years; a recent study showed that 71% of cybersecurity professionals in their employ have reported breaches.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In December 2018, bling vendor Signet Jewelers fixed a weakness in their Kay Jewelers and Jared websites that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. This week, Signet subsidiary Zales.com updated its website to remediate a nearly identical customer data exposure.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2019

The New York Times reported earlier today that it was thought to be the largest settlement ever paid by a company over a data breach, but that statement doesn’t appear anywhere in their current story. “Had the bill been in effect prior to the 2017 Equifax breach, the company would have had to pay at least $1.5

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 29, 2021

As of now, CERT-RO has access to query all Romanian government domains across HIBP and subscribe them for future notifications when subsequent data breaches affect aliases on those domains. You can read more about government access in the initial post from 2018.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But a review of this Araneida nickname on the cybercrime forums shows they have been active in the criminal hacking scene since at least 2018. A search in the threat intelligence platform Intel 471 shows a user by the name Araneida promoted the scanner on two cybercrime forums since 2022, including Breached and Nulled.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 6, 2024

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 7, 2022

The recent incident at Marriott is not the first time the company has been the victim of a massive data breach. An incident that occurred in 2014 but was not discovered until September 2018 led to a fine of £14.4 The post Marriott Confirms Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing “enormous expenses” from notifying affected consumers and the loss of its four largest customers. million patients. million of its patients.

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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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Hot for Security

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s not the first time that DigitalOcean has suffered a data breach that exposed customer information. In May 2020, for instance, the company advised that a DigitalOcean-owned document from 2018 containing customer details was “unintentionally made available via a public link.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Airline Air Europa disclosed a data breach and warned customers to cancel their credit cards after threat actors accessed their card information. Air Europa has disclosed a data breach and issued a warning to its customers, advising them to cancel their credit cards due to unauthorized access by threat actors to their card information.

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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. The post Data Breach leads to Comcast Customer Data Leak appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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 security breach impacted a limited number of customers, only 836 individuals. In February 2021, hundreds of users were hit with SIM swapping attacks.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

Marriott announced another data breach, this one affecting 5.2 Marriott announced another data breach, this one affecting 5.2 This isn't nearly as bad as the 2014 Marriott breach -- made public in 2018 -- which was the work of the Chinese government. linked airline loyalty programs and numbers).

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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 Hacker News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Web hosting giant GoDaddy on Monday disclosed a data breach that resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to a total of 1.2 million active and inactive customers, making it the third security incident to come to light since 2018. In a filing with the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pearson, a London based e-textbook publishing firm that supplies software to Schools and Universities has been slapped with a fine of $1 million for misleading investors about a 2018 data breach that witnessed siphoning of millions of student records by hackers.

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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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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 31, 2023

sports-fashion retail company JD Sports announced that one of its servers suffered a data breach. All the information stored in the attacked server related to purchases made between November 2018 and October 2020. The server was holding details about the online orders of 10 million customers.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Speaking of generous contributions, more than 100 readers have expressed their support in 2018 via PayPal donations to this site. The majority of those funds go toward paying for subscription-based services that KrebsOnSecurity relies upon for routine data gathering and analysis. Thanks for your patience.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned? to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. Mozilla offers Onerep to Firefox users on a subscription basis as part of Mozilla Monitor Plus.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The American Bar Association (ABA) disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. The ABA has 166,000 members as of 2022.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

New research indicates hospitals and other care facilities that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among certain patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers since February. T-Mobile suffered the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers starting in late February 2023.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? Whose Data was Exposed and What Are the Consequences. How and Why We Discovered the Breach. What’s Going On?

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Hotel chain Marriott International suffered a new data breach, a threat actor has stolen 20GB from the company. Hotel chain Marriott International confirmed it has suffered a new data breach after a threat actor stole 20GB of files from one of its properties. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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