The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As small businesses increasingly depend on digital technologies to operate and grow, the risks associated with cyber threats also escalate. Tip 1: Educating and Training the Workforce Regularly Human error remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. Cary, NC, Oct.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

What it boils down to is in August 2021, someone with a proven history of breaching large organisations posted what they claimed were 70 million AT&T records to a popular hacking forum and asked for a very large amount of money should anyone wish to purchase the data.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

If a company you do business with becomes part of a data breach, cybercriminals may have full access to your confidential information. Unfortunately, data breaches are on the rise and affecting more companies and consumers than ever. billion people received notices that their information was exposed in a data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive was breached again, attackers hacked its Zendesk email support platform through stolen GitLab authentication tokens. The Internet Archive was breached via Zendesk, with users receiving warnings about stolen GitLab tokens due to improper token rotation after repeated alerts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. “InfraGard connects critical infrastructure owners, operators, and stakeholders with the FBI to provide education, networking, and information-sharing on security threats and risks,” the FBI’s InfraGard fact sheet reads. Department of Justice in April.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T-Mobile confirmed being a victim of recent hacking campaigns linked to China-based threat actors targeting telecom companies. T-Mobile confirms it was hacked as part of a long-running cyber espionage campaign targeting Telco companies. The security breach poses a major national security risk.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

The company has suffered data breaches in the past. . Significant data breaches at credit score bureaus include: . Experian, 2020: A data breach impacted 24 million Experian customers, plus almost 800,000 businesses in South Africa. The data included addresses, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2024

CISA adds Veeam Backup and Replication flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog North Korea-linked APT37 exploited IE zero-day in a recent attack Omni Family Health data breach impacts 468,344 individuals Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure organizations macOS HM Surf flaw in TCC allows bypass Safari privacy settings Two Sudanese (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2024

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. No joke, we did have a data breach in late March involving the resumes of our earliest members.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You Casio: Notice of Partial Service Outage and Information Leak Caused by Ransomware Attack He founded a “startup” to access sanctioned Russian websites: the cyber police of Khmelnytskyi region exposed the hacker Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse Malware Over 300,000!

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk. Hacks and breaches are inevitable even for the most well-protected enterprise. Joshua Arsenio, Director, Security Compass Advisory.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2024

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed the Ticketmaster data breach that compromised the data of 560 million customers. ShinyHunters, the current administrator of BreachForums , recently claimed the hack of Ticketmaster and offered for sale 1.3 TB of data, including full details of 560 million customers, for $500,000.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

Arkana Security, a new ransomware group, claims to have breached the telecommunications provider WideOpenWest (WOW!). The new ransomware group Arkana Security claims to have hacked US telecom provider WOW!, stealing customer data. The ransomware group steals victims’ data to pressure them into paying a “generous fee.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals. “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low.

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Identity IQ

MAY 10, 2024

Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers IdentityIQ Dell Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers Dell recently announced its investigation into a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 49 million customers. How Did This Data Breach Happen?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it has fined four companies $7 million for misleading statements about their cybersecurity incidents, particularly concerning the high-profile 2019 SolarWinds hack. The SEC charged the companies with "materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions."

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

With the help of these documents, even inexperienced operators with limited hacking skills can quickly acquire the necessary expertise to successfully forward counterfeit EDRs. These EDRs, representing the official cooperation channels between law enforcement agencies and social media platforms, are at risk of becoming a double-edged sword.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 16, 2024

After months of confusion, leaked information from a background-check firm underscores the long-term risks of data breaches. Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more—all available online.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

a hospital patient in desperate need of an immediate operation whose records are locked up); Payment can avoid being fined for losing important data; Payment means not losing highly confidential information; and Payment may mean not going public with the data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. ” reads the data breach notification published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. The vulnerability on which the attack was based has been fixed.”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. This is when hackers try usernames and password combos leaked in data breaches at other companies, hoping that some users might have reused usernames and passwords across services.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

Software solutions provider Young Consulting disclosed a data breach impacting 950,000 individuals following a BlackSuit ransomware attack. ” reads a notice of data breach published by the company. The stolen data are now available for download. The company maker did not share details about the attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Pharmaceutical giant Cencora suffered a cyber attack and threat actors stole data from its infrastructure. Pharmaceutical giant Cencora disclosed a data breach after it was the victim of a cyberattack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare sector)

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2024

“Furthermore, OpenAI has not provided for mechanisms for age verification, which could lead to the risk of exposing children under 13 to inappropriate responses with respect to their degree of development and self-awareness.” ” reads the press release published by Italy’s Garante. OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Attackers can also trigger flaws to extract network details to infiltrate connected systems, increasing the risk of data breaches and ransomware attacks. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, PTZOptics cameras)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It becomes increasingly difficult to gain complete visibility or transparency that could help security and privacy teams discover sensitive data, identify its security and compliance postures, and mitigate risks. To add to the difficulty, the advent of Generative AI (GenAI) has brought unprecedented security and privacy risks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

The same types of security risks impact businesses, whatever their size. They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. ” These types of attacks can allow hackers to steal massive amounts of sensitive data, disrupt operations, and even take down websites.

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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 million people. million people.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Exposing the identities of individuals in an intelligence report presents risks. Then Federal Police arrested him as part of a recently launched Operation code-named “Operation Data Breach.” ” The investigation is still ongoing, the police aim to identify any other data breach committed by the hacker.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

oil company Halliburton disclosed a data breach following the RansomHub ransomware gang attack that occurred in August. Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware) In August, Halliburton, a major U.S. ” continues the document. .

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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. The hackers initially offered this data for sale on the dark web for $3.5

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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. “In assessing the nature of the breach, all parties discussed a potential delay to public reporting under Item 1.05(c) AT&T Corp. million former account holders.

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