Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

American Express warns customers that their credit cards were exposed due to a data breach experienced by a third-party merchant processor. American Express (Amex) notifies customers that their credit card information has been compromised in a data breach involving a third-party merchant processor.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. An increasing number try to hijack peoples’ online accounts, which they often do by credential stuffing. These account takeover attacks have skyrocketed lately. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2023

But that hasn't stopped a couple of new data breaches flowing into HIBP nor me having some pretty direct thoughts on the premise that the vast bulk of IT pros are being told not to report data breaches. Book a demo today. And we've seriously maxed out the time, as you can see via the FB link below.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitality chain McMenamins disclosed a data breach after a recent ransomware attack. Hospitality chain McMenamins discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack that took place on December 12. According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 11, 2022

Mangatoon is a comic book, manhua, manhwa, and manga reading app that is completely free to use. Following the theft of user account information from an unprotected Elasticsearch […]. The post Mangatoon Sufferes Major Data Breach appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. What Happened?

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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? ChronoPay founder and CEO Pavel Vrublevsky was the key subject of my 2014 book Spam Nation , which described his role as head of one of Russia’s most notorious criminal spam operations.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

Book a demo today. To the audience question about door locks, I did go back and look again and there's a Yale Assure Lock 2 that supersedes the SL I had an order (still no Apple HomeKey support though 😔) Sponsored by: Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta.

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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? So, someone did that 167 million times, dumped the data and shared it on a popular hacking forum. the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Details are in that the info belongs to all those customers who booked their orders on the platform from the past few years(say between Nov’18 to Oct’2020) and might include sensitive details of half of the affected consumers. The post Data Breach at Britain JD Sports leaks 10 million customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Avis Car Rental has begun notifying close to 300,000 individuals about a data breach that occurred in August 2024, resulting in the theft of sensitive personal information. The breach reportedly exposed customer names, addresses, driver license numbers, and other personal data.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. Within hacking, web applications accounted for over 95% of breaches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The hackers gained access to Blue Bear , a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and districts to help manage and simplify schools’ activity fund accounting. ” reads the notice of data breach. SecurityAffairs – Active Network, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A Twitter account by that name was verified by Kivimaki’s attorney as his, and through that account he denied being involved in the Vastaamo extortion. “According to Vastaamo, the data breach in Vastaamo’s customer databases took place in November 2018,” Iltalehti reported last month. ” .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Whoever compromised the shop siphoned data on millions of card accounts that were acquired over four years through various illicit means from legitimate, hacked businesses around the globe — but mostly from U.S. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1 Source: NYU.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In response to continuing waves of data breaches and network disruptions, companies have made a concerted effort and poured substantial resources into promoting data security awareness among employees, suppliers and clients. Safeguarding data in workplace settings gets plenty of attention. Send gifts to clients?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

Booking.com, an online travel agency has been fined €475,000 for not reporting the data breach within the stipulated time frame crafted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this process, they gained access to personal details of over 4100 customers who booked accommodation in various hotels across UAE.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity last month interviewed a victim who recently saw more than three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency siphoned from his account. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Facebook Is an Open Book. Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. Monitor your accounts. What You Can Do. 5 above.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. Missing Data. While you may have your book series in hand, do you have candles and matches or a lighter or both?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt from its sources that the threat actors accessed details such as tax file numbers, bank account details, superannuation data, in the attack that could lead to identity theft attacks in the coming weeks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 11, 2022

Both the companies revealed the same in SEC filing and apologized for the incident and assured that such data breaches will never get repeated. Whereas, Vodafone is still investigating the cyber attack claims and internal data theft. The company that ferries about 4.6

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Each year, O’Reilly gathers usage data across its publishing partners and learning modes, from books and videos to live online training courses, virtual events, practice exams, and interactive scenarios, to provide technology leaders with the trends, topics, and issues to watch in the coming year.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve allegations stemming from a massive data breach that affected millions of guests. The breach, which occurred between 2014 and 2018, involved the exposure of sensitive customer information, including names, passport numbers, credit card details, and reservation information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

According to a report published by researchers at PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps. In a report published on the 16 th of March by PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Add to that the websites we visit that Google tracks through its advertising network, our Gmail accounts, our movements via Google Maps , and what it can collect from our smartphones. In 2015, I wrote a book about it. In 2016, the European Union passed the comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The database included the personally identifiable information of Blink Mobility customers and administrators, including: Phone number Email address Encrypted password Registration date Device info and device token Details on subscription and rented vehicles (license plate, VIN, booking start and end location, etc.)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Security experts from vpnMentor discovered that Gekko Group, an AccorHotels subsidiary, exposes hotels and travelers in a massive data leak. Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns smaller hospitality brands, including Teldar Travel & Infinite Hotel. of guests, room types, etc.),

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission. The domain wmpay.ru

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! I also could have listed just a few of the industry leaders but people being as they are and the whole paradox of choice problem (a great book, BTW!),

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

British Airways was hacked, customer personal and payment card information of 380,000 were stolen by attackers, the stolen data did not include travel or passport details. “We are investigating, as a matter of urgency, the theft of customer data from our website and our mobile app. . ” reads the data breach notification.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. You can prevent attackers from gaining easy access to sensitive data or critical information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Call it targeted Ransomware. · Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that aim to influence U.S. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

New Google bug bounty allows reporting the abuses of Google API, Chrome, and Android user data. Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data. One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online. XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers. Crooks stole €1.5

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