Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2022 I've had various public users of HIBP, commercial users and even governments reach out to ask what's going on because they were concerned about their data. Remember how just recently a couple of billion TikTok accounts had been "breached"?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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. In 2022, Araneida told fellow Breached members they could be reached on Discord at the username “ Ornie#9811.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Preliminary analysis conducted by the IT team says that the sophisticated attack could have been caused through a phishing attack launched on the HackerOne account of one of the senior IT employees of the company. And the data breach could have taken place after the credential steal.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

authorities seized $23M in crypto linked to a $150M Ripple wallet theft, experts believe the incident is linked to the 2022 LastPass breach. authorities seized $23M in crypto tied to a $150M Ripple hack, suspected to have been carried out by hackers from the 2022 LastPass breach. ” reads the complaint.

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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? . “I’m also godfather of his second son.” ” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. Image: U.S. Postal Investigative Service. “Hi, how are you?” ” he inquired.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 12, 2024

On July 12, 2024, AT&T disclosed a data security incident that occurred in 2022. The company confirmed that unauthorized individuals accessed customer data stored on a third-party cloud platform. A password manager can generate strong and unique passwords for every account.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2024

. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a new data breach after some of its US systems were compromised in July. After the attack that hit the company in late July 2022, Samsung disclosed a data breach. At the same time, Social Security or credit card numbers were not exposed in the security breach.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2022

For many years now, I've lamented about how much of my time is spent attempting to disclose data breaches to impacted companies. It's by far the single most time-consuming activity in processing breaches for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and frankly, it's about the most thankless task I can imagine.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Among them, it was possible to identify tax registration, email addresses, registered domains, IP addresses, social media accounts, telephone number and city. However, the Brazilian national turned into more complex cybercriminal activities by 2022. The man used of the same email and phrases across social media and forums.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

Healthcare firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach caused by a partner’s compromised account that exposed protected health information. Healthcare fintech firm HealthEquity disclosed a data breach after a partner’s compromised account was used to access its systems. million accounts.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2022

LastPass, a password management service offering company, has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach in an attack that might be linked to the August data leak where hackers stole vital information from the servers of the said company.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The 2022 update to our research on the perception of data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk for a data breach instead of what feels right. First, a little background It’s been a little over a year since we first shared our research on the data breach perception problem.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 17, 2024

The seizure messages include ways to contact the FBI about the seizure, including an email, a Telegram account, a TOX account, and a dedicated page hosted on the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). co and run by pompompurin) operated a similar hacking forum from March 2022 until March 2023. .”

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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. “On April 4, 2022, Block, Inc. “On April 4, 2022, Block, Inc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2022

T Mobile’s Executive Vice President Mike Katz issued an update on his LinkedIn page, a sophisticated cyber attack resulting in data breach that apparently occurred last week targeting some of the business customers of his company. However, Mr. Katz told that the impact of the data breach could vary by business and individual.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dropbox announced on November 1, 2022, a data breach that led to the exfiltration of 130 GitHub code repositories. The breach was discovered on October 14, 2022, after GitHub identified some suspicious activity the day before.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “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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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

American Airlines notified its clients on Friday, September 16th, that they have been the victims of a cyberattack after a number of employees’ email accounts were compromised. The airline explained in its notification letter that it has no evidence the exposed data was misused. What Happened?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later. The 911 S5 botnet-powered proxy service, circa July 2022. dollars using over-the-counter vendors who wired and deposited funds into bank accounts held by Liu.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2024

In a ruling issued on May 31, 2024, HHS stated that hospitals and health systems impacted by the Change Healthcare data breach must now require the insurance giant UnitedHealth Group to directly notify affected individuals about potential exposure of their personal and medical information.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2024

Back in March, AT&T confirmed that 73 million people had been affected in a breach that people had been speculating about for some time. Protecting yourself after a data breach There are some actions you can take if you are, or suspect you may have been, the victim of a data breach. Take your time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a report from law firm RPC claims that the year 2022 witnessed a penalties accounting for £15.2 Wonder how the breached firms will react to such public shaming? . The post UK Data Regulator publishes information of firms hit by data breaches appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. million up from £4.6m

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “ USDoD ” had infiltrated the FBI ‘s vetted information sharing network InfraGard , and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. Microsoft Corp. government inboxes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported.

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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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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Dell, one of the world's largest technology companies, has just disclosed a major data breach that may have compromised the personal information of tens of millions of current and former customers. The breach went undetected for several months before finally being discovered in early 2023.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2023

US health services company Independent Living Systems (ILS) discloses a data breach that impacted more than 4 million individuals. US health services company Independent Living Systems (ILS) disclosed a data breach that exposed personal and medical information for more than 4 million individuals. million individuals.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached. Department of Defense. Department of Justice in April.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 4, 2023

It is crucial for businesses to know and understand the costs and dangers associated with data breaches, how they occur, how to prevent them, and how to respond in the event of a successful breach. According to the 2023 DBIR, 83% of breaches originated from external sources, while 19% could be traced to internal actors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages.

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