Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM said it learned of the issue on July 16, 2018, and had the problem fixed by the following day.

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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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Data breaches Mobile Identity Theft Accountability 98

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. Identity theft. How and Why We Discovered the Breach.

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Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 121

Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. Coelho landed on the radar of U.S.

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Government Identity Theft Mobile Data breaches 261

Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

billion in 2018. As noted in past stories here, these types of data exposures are some of the most common yet preventable. In December 2018, the parent company of Kay Jewelers and Jared Jewelers fixed a weakness in their site that exposed the order information for all of their online customers.

Insurance 279

Insurance Banking Identity Theft Scams 279

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In January 2018, GovPayNet was acquired by Securus Technologies , a Carrollton, Texas- based company that provides telecommunications services to prisons and helps law enforcement personnel keep tabs on mobile devices used by former inmates. Although its name may suggest otherwise, Securus does not have a great track record in securing data.

Mobile 272

Mobile Government Identity Theft Telecommunications 272

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In mid-November 2018, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a Jared customer who found something curious after receiving a receipt via email for a pair of earrings he’d just purchased as a surprise gift for his girlfriend. Data exposures like these are some of the most common yet preventable for online retailers.

Retail 254

Retail Identity Theft Scams Media 254

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

Mobile 133

Mobile Data breaches Telecommunications Identity Theft 133

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In light of this, I would urge any customers who have been affected by this breach to be wary of any unexpected communications they might now receive, whether that’s over email, text messages or phone calls. In 2018, a compromise of T-Mobile systems resulted in personal information of 2 million customers being stolen. million to $4.24

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Data breaches Mobile Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft 110

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Adding more embarrassment to last year’s Twitter Data Breach, a new finding on the web has discovered a new database dump exposed on an online hacking forum. It appears to be a big data leak as information related to about 235 million users was found by a cyber intelligence firm named Hudson Rock, based in Israel.

Identity Theft 137

Identity Theft Big data Manufacturing Healthcare 137

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 110

Banking Data breaches Identity Theft Accountability 110

Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

” According to a somewhat redacted vulnerability assessment of Informed Visibility (PDF) published in October 2018 by the USPS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), auditors found a number of authentication and encryption weaknesses in the service. But they seemed to have overlooked this rather glaring security problem.

Accountability 279

Accountability Authentication Identity Theft Advertising 279

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to experts, the leak of PII data containing Aadhaar information (and other such details) related to Indian citizens on the Dark Web creates a significant risk of digital identity theft. ” This week, Resecurity released a report indicating the growing trend of Aadhaar data leaks. .”

Identity Theft 125

Identity Theft Data breaches Telecommunications Mobile 125

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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Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Malwarebytes

MAY 20, 2024

Even in the four years between 2018 and 2022, complaints about identity theft more than doubled , per the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said: “Over the last 24 years, the nature, scale, and impact of data breaches has transformed substantially.

Identity Theft 125

Identity Theft Data breaches Risk Internet 125

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

August is two-thirds of the way through year, and we have already seen a number of serious, far-reaching data breaches making headlines, some occurred in 2018, and some from 2017 that are now being disclosed. When it comes to data breach notification laws, things can get tricky and complex, varying state-by-state.

Data breaches 63

Data breaches Retail Identity Theft Threat Reports 63

Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

The restaurant chain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen suffered a payment card breach, hackers hacked the company network between Nov. Once again here we are to discuss of a data breach suffered by a restaurant chain this time the victim is Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. Attackers breached into the company network between Nov.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

This magnitude reminds of us of the 500 million people that were impacted in the data breach at Marriott. Oddly, Facebook initially dismissed the reports as irrelevant, citing that the data was leaked years ago so it didn’t matter now. What is a data breach?” What is data scraping?” spreadsheet).

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Data breaches Passwords Identity Theft Password Management 58

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

. “ Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to investigate the data exposure, which included sensitive personal and tax information. ” The Elasticsearch database was first indexed by search engines in May 2018, Diachenko discovered it on September 17, 2019, and on September 20, 2019 it was secured.

Identity Theft 105

Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 105

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.

Digital transformation 108

Digital transformation Authentication Identity Theft Passwords 108

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to 29,000 Facebook employees. The company notified the data theft to its staff via email Friday morning. The social media giant is working with police investigating the theft. ” concludes Facebook.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Banking Advertising Media 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) the number of data breaches reported in 2021 eclipsed that of 2020 by as early as October. Even prior to the pandemic, back in 2018, IBM revealed a startling 424% year-on-year increase in data breaches due to cloud misconfigurations caused by human error.

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Risk Identity Theft Digital transformation Data breaches 144

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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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

. “The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has the cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) read from a payment card as it was being routed through the payment processing systems.” Customers should immediately report any unauthorized charges to their card issuer.

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Malware Identity Theft Advertising Cybersecurity 141

Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Such breaches, unfortunately, have become common. This attack marked its fifth breach since 2018 and, in fact, the company suffered yet another breach – albeit apparently a small one — late in December. In the big picture in security, improvement of IRPs is hardly all companies must do to mitigate cyber breaches.

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Cybersecurity Data breaches Identity Theft Cyber Attacks 119

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At this time it is unclear for how long the data remained exposed online without protection. “The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. The Privacy and security of personal information is paramount.”

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Education Phishing Scams 98

Adam Levin

JANUARY 24, 2019

In November 2018, Diachenko also found roughly 57 million records of American citizens from one unsecured instance apparently belonging to a Canadian data firm. The Brazilian government and a fitness company experienced similar leaks in late 2018 as well.

Engineering 125

Engineering IoT Internet Internet 125

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This kind of information it a precious commodity for threat actors, members of the forum already expressed their interest in the huge trove of data.

Hacking 111

Hacking Identity Theft Cybercrime Advertising 111

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement of work documents for marketing campaigns date between 2018 and 2019: Who owns the bucket? What happened to the data? Most of the CSV files contain user records for what we assume to be target demographics for either digital or physical marketing materials.

Marketing 108

Marketing Media Advertising Identity Theft 108

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2023

After a tip from a Telegram user who frequented identity theft channels, Brian Krebs tested and confirmed that anyone who knew your name, address, social security number (SSN), and birthday could view your full credit report at Experian. Only half a year ago, Brian Krebs also reported how identity thieves were able to hijack accounts.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Data breaches Accountability Media 98

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

All of this data is conveniently stored in spreadsheet format that can be easily opened, read, and downloaded by anyone who knows what to look for. The exposed data was hosted on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) server and located in the US. Who had access? Original post available on Cybernews: [link].

Identity Theft 106

Identity Theft Advertising Accountability Passwords 106

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Data Breach. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Ransomware detections on machines jumped 369% (yes, three-hundred-sixty-nine percent) vs. 2018. First, however, let's look at the top 15 cyber threats organizations face right now, according to the report: Malware. Web-based Attacks.

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Cyber threats Insurance Cyber Insurance Ransomware 129

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

The timeline of uploads might indicate that these emails have been either stolen or acquired on the black market back in October 2018 , and then gradually decrypted by the owner of the bucket. Who had access?

Social Engineering 145

Social Engineering Passwords Marketing Phishing 145

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Another day, another breach. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.

Identity Theft 89

Identity Theft IoT Technology Encryption 89

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

Personal Data Breach. Identity Theft. Corporate Data Breach. . $600,249,821. 517,021,289. 194,473,055. Real Estate/Rental. 350,328,166. 213,196,082. Tech Support. 347,657,432. 146,477,709. Non-Payment/Non-Delivery. 337,493,071. 265,011,249. 278,267,918. 219,484,699. 219,484,699. Credit Card Fraud.

Scams 98

Scams Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Data breaches 98