Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. McDonald’s is currently notifying affected customers and authorities in all impacted markets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2024

The Spanish bank Santander disclosed a data breach at a third-party provider that impacted customers in Chile, Spain, and Uruguay. The Spanish financial institution Santander revealed a data breach involving a third-party provider that affected customers in Chile, Spain, and Uruguay.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

UScellular, one of the largest wireless carriers in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the hack suffered in December 2021. UScellular has disclosed a data breach after the attack that compromised the company’s billing system in December 2021. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after the new Embargo extortion group leaked over 500GB of data allegedly stolen from the company. Firstmac Limited, one of the largest non-bank lenders in Australia, disclosed a data breach. The company is notifying the impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed this week a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. said Experian Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

The supermarket chain Wegmans US Wegmans discloses a data breach, customers information was exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration issue. Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Financial data and customers’ social security numbers were not exposed because the company does not collect this type of information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

zip” that attackers claim contain around 5% of the total amount of documents stolen during the attack, The archive contains files related to Canon’s website and marketing materials, according to BleepingComputer’s source it does not appear to contain any financial information, employee information, or other sensitive data.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. This includes replacing inadequate authentication measures—such as security questions—with multi-factor authentication methods, minimizing the amount of data it collects and retains, and encrypting SSNs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Subway UK).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The Israeli marketing firm Straffic accidentally exposed 49 million unique email addresses stored in an Elasticsearch database. The Israeli marketing firm Straffic exposed 49 million unique email addresses due to mishandled credentials for an Elasticsearch database. SecurityAffairs – Straffic, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 backpack market with the JanSport, Dickies, Eastpak, Timberland, Smartwool, Vans, and The North Face brands. million customers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2022

How Information Security Breaks The Classic IT Model. CEO: “ Due to complications in the market with unexpected changes in product and customer spending, we are going to announce a 20% in headcount, expenses, and capital projects for the remainder of the year.”. Cost of Breach Could Be Greater Than The Expected Cost Savings.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2019

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced that threat actors had access for months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to its newsletter. SecurityAffairs – ECB, data breach). The post European Central Bank (ECB) discloses data breach in BIRD Newsletter appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach. Collected data si shared with a number of partner sites (such as insurance or loan agencies), that pay per lead referral. DATABASE SALE ON DARKWEB MARKETS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2023

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Since then all board members have resigned, except for CEO Anne Wojcicki who has stood by her plans to take the company private, raising again the subject of what happens to customer genetic data when a company is sold. Data breaches happen to the best companies.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CyberNews researchers discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media containing close to 39 million US citizen records. The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media, an online marketing company. What happened to the data? Original post: [link].

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

National pharmacy network PharMerica discloses a data breach that impacted more than 5.8 National pharmacy network PharMerica disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of 5,815,591 individuals. The company is the second largest in the institutional pharmacy services market, with revenues of $1.9

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

Sysco, the global food distribution giant, disclosed a data breach, the compromised data includes customer and employee data. Sysco Corporation is an American multinational corporation involved in marketing and distributing food products, smallwares, kitchen equipment and tabletop items.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

. “ vpnMentor’s research team recently received a report from an anonymous ethical hacker about a massive data leak exposing users of over 70 adult dating and e-commerce websites from around the world.” The post Popular Marketing Tool exposes data of users of dating sites appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

KrebsOnSecurity reviewed the Web sites for the global top 100 companies by market value, and found just five percent of top 100 firms listed a chief information security officer (CISO) or chief security officer (CSO). Only a little more than a third even listed a CTO in their executive leadership pages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Melillo, who spoke alongside Milan’s chief prosecutor Marcello Viola, said that authorities have uncovered “a massive market of confidential information.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? In October, FICO teamed up with the U.S. ENTIRELY, CERTIFIABLY PREVENTABLE.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Researcher discovered an unsecured database exposed online, belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads, containing 198 million records. The researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database exposed online that belong to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Blockchain: Developed primarily for cryptocurrency applications and maligned for manipulating those markets, blockchain can be a valuable security tool, as its universe of connected nodes is almost impossible to corrupt or destroy. Knowledge of cloud systems architecture and how it interacts with various devices is invaluable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, a threat actor is offering for sale its databases on a hacker forum. firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

is known for offering high-speed internet and competitive pricing in markets where it competes with larger providers. The Arkana group recently appeared in the threat landscape, claiming to perform post-pentest services, and offering data security, and risk management services. has not yet confirmed the alleged data breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2025

dialysis market and is headquartered in Denver, though incorporated in Delaware. DaVita specializes in treating end-stage renal disease (ESRD), requiring patients to undergo dialysis three times a week unless they receive a kidney transplant. The company holds a 37% share of the U.S. The company is ranked 341st on theFortune 500.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This allows security teams to act swiftly before any data breach can occur. Key Takeaway: Leveraging AI for Comprehensive Data Security Integrating AI across data security layersDiscovery, Classification, and Protectionenables organizations to effectively detect, classify, and secure sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Although no such developments have been concretely documented yet, there is a growing possibility that these groups may eventually combine ransomware attacks with highly specific data obtained through fraudulent EDRs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is investigating a new data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data on a hacking forum. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is investigating a new data breach, following the discovery of an offer on a hacking forum where a threat actor claimed to be selling the allegedly stolen data.

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