Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. ” reads the statement published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users. Hunt added the data to the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website over the weekend.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

In what could be one of the largest data breaches in history, personal information of potentially billions of individuals may have been compromised in a hack of National Public Data (NPD), a Florida-based background check company. It also highlights the importance of individual vigilance in safeguarding personal information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN), the Ontario birth registry disclosed a data breach affecting some 3.4 The BORN funded by the government of Ontario disclosed a data breach that impacts some 3.4 Compromised data included the services people received and their demographic information.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’re still under the impression that hacking is restricted to hoodie-wearing individuals in darkened rooms, then you might be vastly underestimating the scale the data breach problem. . Last year alone more than 300 million consumers were impacted by data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

As high-profile data breaches and leaks continue making headlines, a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) examines the triple-whammy of factors enabling this tidal wave of personal data theft. These escalations have made ransomware an even more potent data breach threat.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

The snippets of stolen data that USDoD offered as teasers showed rows of names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs). Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the National Public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets).

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. Last year, Instagram received a record fine of $400m for the abuse of children’s data.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. This year, Verizon analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 confirmed data breaches. So what did they find?

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

“If this Collection #1 has you spooked, changing your password(s) certainly can’t hurt — unless of course you’re in the habit of re-using passwords. The bad news is that Collection #1 seems to be a subset of a significantly larger data collection being sold online containing nearly 1 terabyte of compromised and hacked passwords.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 The law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 million individuals. million individuals.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One reader’s copy of their Equifax Breach Settlement letter. In 2017, Equifax disclosed a massive, extended data breach that led to the theft of Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other personal information on nearly 150 million people. They received a check for $6.97.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

Specifically, stories and news items where public and/or private organizations have leveraged their capabilities to encroach on user privacy; for example, data brokers using underhanded means to harvest user location data without user knowledge or public organizations using technology without regard for user privacy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2021

vpnMentor’s researchers reported that the Chinese mobile gaming company EskyFun suffered a data breach, over 1 million gamers impacted. . vpnMentor’s researchers discovered that the Chinese mobile gaming company EskyFun suffered a data breach, information of over 1 million gamers were exposed on an unsecured server. .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Data breaches are fairly common occurrences these days – in 2014 alone, nearly half (43%) of all companies experienced a cyber attack. Even worse is that most data breaches take weeks or even months to discover, which can have devastating effects on a business since the average cost of a compromised record is worth more than $194.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The more information they store, the higher the risk of a data breach. When that sensitive, granular data is leaked, regaining your online privacy becomes virtually impossible. The tracking methods used are also becoming more sophisticated and captures a lot more data than before.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Home Office Contractor's Data Collection Sparks Privacy Concerns The Home Office faces scrutiny after revelations that its contractor, Equifax, collected data on British citizens while conducting financial checks on migrants applying for fee waivers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

A cataclysmic data breach has cast a long shadow over the privacy of billions of individuals. billion records, including Social Security numbers, have been compromised in a cyberattack targeting National Public Data (NPD), a company specializing in background checks. Who Is Behind the NPD Breach? With an estimated 2.9

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2024

At Malwarebytes, we reported how a team of researchers at Mozilla who reviewed the privacy and data collection policies of various product categories for several years now, named “Privacy Not Included,” found cars to be the worst product category they ever reviewed for privacy.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Employment screening company DISA says data of 3.3 million people was exposed in a data breach lasts year, prompting AppOmni CSO Cory Michal to say that data collection companies like DISA and National Public Data need more oversight, regulations, and penalties.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Fact: Zynga, the California-based social game developer, suffered a major data breach in 2019 when a malicious actor stole 218 million records belonging to “Words With Friends” players. If you were a victim of the Zynga data breach, you’ve probably changed the password for your account already.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The data is thought to have originated from Data&Leads, Inc. A cached version of the company’s website shows that it promised “access to our massive in-house data collection, as well as one of the largest data supplier networks of any data or lead company.”.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In January, Finland”>terminating its contract with Vastaamo – not because of the security breach, but due to an inspection discovering that some of the firm’s therapists were not adequately qualified.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The automakers argued that their practice was necessary to provide certain features and services, such as hands-free calling and texting, and that customers had consented to the data collection by agreeing to the terms of service when they purchased their vehicles.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Continuing to deal with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, last week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, testified before U.S. Congress admitting he never audited Cambridge Analytica to ensure the Facebook user data collected had been deleted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

Data breaches are a serious threat to organizations, but vulnerability management automation can help reduce the number of incidents businesses face each year. Common vulnerabilities There are many types of vulnerabilities that can lead to a data breach or cyberattack.

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Threatpost

JULY 9, 2020

The server contained almost 270 gigabytes of data collected from 200 police departments, law enforcement training and support resources and fusion centers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2021

It is time to re-evaluate Cyber-defence solutions New Zealand central bank hit by a cyber attack TeamTNT botnet now steals Docker API and AWS credentials Connecting the dots between SolarWinds and Russia-linked Turla APT Experts found gained access to the Git Repositories of the United Nations Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years in prison (..)

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

These protections extend to sensitive data such as health, financial, and biometric information. For businesses, the DPDPA sets clear data privacy standards, helping them to build trust with customers, reduce the risk of data breaches, and protect their reputation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Businesses must ensure that these entities understand and respect the consumers’ data rights and do not use the data in any manner inconsistent with the purpose for which it was originally collected. Data breaches and other threats. The culprit gained access to sensitive data of 11.9 Privacy Violations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It can also help in curbing companies like Google and Facebook on their regular practices of data collection and sale of information to ad firms. Note- GDPR allows web users to export their data and delete it as per their choice.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Greediest data harvesters. Social media and business apps collect the most data. While sharing is usually what consumers find most alarming when it comes to how apps handle their data, collection can be just as important to online privacy and security. million users’ personal information being leaked.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

While not highly sensitive, the data could still be used by threat actors to stage attacks against US business owners who the threat actors might see as being more affluent and potentially vulnerable to phishing and ransomware attacks. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to June, Q2, of 2021. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.

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