Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

But I have proven, with sufficient confidence, that the data is real and the impact is significant. Whilst I did this in that handful of aforementioned cases as part of the breach verification process, this is something that happens entirely manually and is infeasible en mass.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Half of the security pros surveyed by Laminar said their cloud environments were hit by a data breach in 2020 or 2021. The post Cloud security: How your public cloud environment may be vulnerable to data breach appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The post Best of 2021 – What We Can Learn From the 2021 Microsoft Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2021

Breach : An incident that results in the confirmed disclosure—not just potential exposure—of data to an unauthorized party. This year they analyzed 79,635 incidents, 29,207 met their quality standards, and 5,258 were confirmed data breaches. 76% of Computer Data Breaches didn’t involve any financial loss.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are 12 New Year Resolutions for a safer and more secure digital you in 2021: Think before you click that email link: 2020 was a record-breaking year for ransomware, malware, and phishing , and many, if not most of these attacks were launched with the click on a link in an email. That’s always the case when it comes to cybersecurity.

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Lohrman on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021 would require reporting cyber incidents impacting critical infrastructure to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 24 hours.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The pandemic warfare will shift to vaccine supply chains, home networks, and data from telemedicine visits in the new year.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks information exposed in data breaches, finds this email address was used to register an account at Breachforums in July 2024 under the nickname “ Ornie.” Archive.org’s recollection of what altugsara dot com looked like in 2021. LinkedIn finds this same altugsara[.]com

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 1, 2022

According to IBM's Annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 , the average cost of a data breach is around $4.24 So what makes data breaches so costly, are business leaders aware of the risks, and what can be done to prevent breaches? . The post How Much Does a Data Breach Cost?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We’ve been named one of the Top 10 cybersecurity webzines in 2021. Expect content that is always accurate and fair, with recent posts exploring the monitoring of complex modern networks, telecom data breaches that expose vast numbers of mobile users, efforts to make software products safer and ransomware attacks on global supply chains.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 19, 2023

Luxottica has confirmed one of its partners suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database was posted this month for free on hacking forums. [.]

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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

UScellular, one of the largest wireless carriers in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the hack suffered in December 2021. UScellular has disclosed a data breach after the attack that compromised the company’s billing system in December 2021. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 GoDaddy discloses a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Labour Party discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack hit a service provider that is managing its data. Labour Party discloses a data breach after a service provider that manages its data was hit by a ransomware attack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

It’s time for the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), a compendium of cybersecurity and malware trends that offers some of the best analyses in our field. It examines more than 5,000 data breaches collected from 80 partners from around the world.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

Though the number of breaches reported in the first half of 2022 were lower than those for the same period in 2021, Flashpoint expects the final numbers to be similar. The post Almost 2,000 data breaches reported for the first half of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a huge opening for bad actors this year, thanks to remote work. Security experts expect more advanced cybersecurity threats in the coming year.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

is an American commission-free stock trading and investing platform, it had 18 million accounts as of March 2021, with over $80 billion in assets. The company disclosed a data breach, a threat actor gained access to the personal information of approximately 7 million customers. Robinhood Markets , Inc. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

With lots of breaches to discuss already ? Ok, so these may not be 2021 breaches but I betcha that by next week's update there'll be brand new ones from the new year to discuss. I'll talk more about the last past of the trip then as well as those all new fresh 2021 data breaches I'm sure we'll have by Friday.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

238,000 Comcast customers were impacted by the FBCS data breach following the February ransomware attack, Comcast reports. Telecommunications giant Comcast is notifying approximately 238,000 customers impacted by the Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach. reads the notice of data breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The company already notified local authorities and sent a data breach notification to the impacted customers. million accounts. million accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

OpenSubtitles has suffered a data breach, the maintainers confirmed that the incident impacted 7 Million subscribers. OpenSubtitles is a popular subtitles websites, it suffered a data breach that affected 6,783,158 subscribers. ” reads a data breach notification published on the website.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that their personal information was exposed after threat actors breached the third-party service provider Fiserv.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. It was leaked online today.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking back, 2021 was a breakout year for ransomware around the globe, with ransoms spiking to unprecedented multi-million dollar amounts. Related: Colonial Pipeline attack ups ransomware ante. All this while Endpoint Detection and Response system (EDR) installations are at an all-time high. Infection required.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2023

This legal turn is supported by a study conducted by BakerHostetler, which confirms that lawsuits against companies that suffer data breaches are becoming more common and may increase by the end of this year. Additionally, the average ransom amount paid last year was recorded as $600,000, up from the $511,000 payment made in 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ personal information. Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. ” reads the data breach notification.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

The global average cost of data breaches reached an all-time high of $4.35 million in 2021, according to a new IBM Security report. About 60% of the breached organizations raised product and services prices due to the breaches. million in 2022 compared with $4.24 To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was compromised in an attack targeting a third-party service provider. ‘ph1ns’ published a link to a database containing stolen data.

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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

APRIL 11, 2022

SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. The post About 300,000 patient data leaked in data breach of SuperCare Health appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. That breach came to light after a hacker began selling the records on a cybercrime forum. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. The post Block discloses data breach involving Cash App potentially impacting 8.2

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 7, 2024

I suggest, based on my experiences with data breaches over the years, that AT&T is about to have a very bad time of it. Class actions following data breaches have become all too common and I've written before about how much I despise them. It's Device Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today.

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