eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2021

US wireless carrier UScellular discloses data breach, personal information of customers may have been exposed and their phone numbers ported. US wireless carrier UScellular discloses a data breach that exposed personal information of its customers. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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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 threat actors claim the stolen database contains customer information, including names, emails, phone numbers, hashed passwords, and password salt.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2024

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. billion passwords from various internet data leaks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below the list of top data breaches that took place in the last 12 months: May 2020 – CAM4 adult cam site leaked 11B database records including emails, private chats.

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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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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

GoDaddy WordPress data breach timeline. November 17, 2021: GoDaddy discovers unauthorized third-party access on Managed WordPress. GoDaddy determined that the incident began on September 6, 2021, and exposed data on 1.2 million active and inactive customers.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

let's link back to it here, just for Streisand's sake 🙂) 1 BILLION queries on Pwned Passwords in a month! let's link back to it here, just for Streisand's sake 🙂) 1 BILLION queries on Pwned Passwords in a month! I'm not even sure what the next milestone will be.)

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

Air India disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 4.5 Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5 million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2025

There are no changes to the way the company stores, manages, or protects customer data. In 2023, not only did the company suffer a major data breach , it also placed some of the blame on the victims who, according to 23andMe, negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords. What is happening?

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91M ($101M) after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. The DPC ruled that Meta was in violation of GDPR on several occasions related to this breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Korean based company that is into the business of perfume and clothes selling said that the data leak took place on August 8th, 2021 and was because of a cyber attack on a cloud based data storage firm. The post Data Breach on French Luxury brand Chanel appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Hot for Security

JANUARY 20, 2021

OpenWRT open-source project says someone used an administrator’s credentials to breach their forum and stole a list of list user names, email addresses, and various other statistical data. Forum data breaches are not uncommon, as threat actors take advantage of vulnerabilities or employ other methods to gain access.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

USCellular, a Chicago-based mobile network operator, has revealed a data breach incident affecting an undisclosed number of customers. The company believes the incident occurred on January 4, 2021, after threat actors managed to trick employees into accessing and downloading malicious software on some retail-store computers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The annual study on top-used passwords published by Nordpass revealed that we are still using weak credentials that expose us to serious risks. Nordpass has published its annual report, titled “Top 200 most common passwords,” on the use of passwords. The report shows that we are still using weak passwords.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 22, 2021

You know, stuff like data breaches, new tech toys and having your genitalia locked in an vulnerable IoT device and held for ransom. and it's not the weirdest thing to happen so far in 2021.) I'm back into a normal home routine and it's business as usual again. Just normal stuff like that ?? with a security vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2022

According to Palo Alto Networks , most known cloud data breaches start with misconfigured IAM policies or leaked credentials. Specifically, researchers found that IAM misconfigurations cause 65% of detected cloud data breaches, with the runners up being weak password usage (53%) and allowing password reuse (44%).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A week after breaking the story about the 2013 data breach at Target, KrebsOnSecurity published Who’s Selling Cards from Target? In February, he and Ermakov were arrested on charges of operating a short-lived ransomware affiliate program in 2021 called Sugar (a.k.a. . “I’m also godfather of his second son.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

UC San Diego Health, a California based healthcare service provider, reportedly suffered a data breach early this year, and it notified the 450,000 victims from September 7th, 2021. The post California Hospital data breach crisis deepens appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. BleepingComputer first reported the news, and Luxottica confirmed that the data breach is the result of a new security incident suffered by a third-party contractor that was managing its customer data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

GoDaddy has made it official that a data breach has occurred on its database in September this year leaking email addresses to hackers that could lead to phishing attacks in the future. The post GoDaddy data breach could lead to Phishing Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Problems arise for businesses when they base their access management programs entirely around passwords, however. Such programs overlook the burden that passwords can cause to users as well as to IT and security teams. Passwords: An unsustainable business cost. Users have too many passwords to remember on their own.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 28, 2021

Well, it kinda feels like we're back to the new normal that is 2021. I'm home, the kids are back at school and we're all still getting breached. We're breached so much that even when we're not breached but someone says we're breached, it genuinely looks like we're breached.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives. Having a password allows you to securely access your information, pay bills or connect with friends and family on various platforms. However, having a password alone is not enough. Your passwords also need to be managed and protected.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

.” The data came to light a few weeks ago when it was put up for sale on an online cybercrime forum, but the seller, a hacker calling themselves “MajorNelson”, claimed it had been stolen from AT&T three years prior. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? 2/4) — Gravatar.com (@gravatar) December 6, 2021 But. the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach. They want answers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Broward Health public health system disclosed a massive data breach that has impacted more than 1.3 The Broward Health public health system has suffered a data breach that impacted 1,357,879 individuals. Broward Health discovered the intrusion on October 19, 2021.” million individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This enormous injection of used passwords has puffed up the world’s largest publicly available password database by 38%, according to Hunt. HIBP) allows users to type in an email address, phone number or password and find out how many times they’ve been involved in a data breach. Have I Been Pwned?’.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security may have exposed the data of 820K customers. Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers. ” reads the notice of data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Russian subscription-based streaming service Start discloses a data breach affecting 7.5 The Russian media streaming platform START disclosed a data breach that impacted 7.5 ” Stolen data include email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames, while financial data were not exposed. million users.

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