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You Can't Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales

Troy Hunt

I mean a really trustworthy one you can be confident won't lead you up the garden path with false promises of data breaches. Like this guy yesterday: For my international friends, JB Hi-Fi is a massive electronics retailer down under and they have my data! It's hard to find a good criminal these days.

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Fashion retailer Forever 21 data breach impacted +500,000 individuals

Security Affairs

Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. On March 20, 2023, the fashion retailer Forever 21 has discovered a cyber incident that impacted a limited number of systems. The retailer also notified law enforcement.

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Retail giant Woolworths discloses data breach of MyDeal online marketplace

Security Affairs

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 million MyDeal customers. million of them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Fashion retailer Guess discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Bleeping Computer

American fashion brand and retailer Guess is notifying affected customers of a data breach following a February ransomware attack that led to data theft. [.].

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

Like other mobile providers, T-Mobile is locked in a constant battle with scammers who target its own employees in SIM swapping attacks and other techniques to wrest control over employee accounts that can provide backdoor access to customer data. In at least one case , retail store employees were complicit in the account takeovers.

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How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

Krebs on Security

But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear they wouldn’t know what to do with a data breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.

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E-Skimming Strikes Again: Macy’s Confirms Magecart Data Breach

Adam Levin

Macy’s has informed customers of an e-skimming data breach following the discovery of Magecart malware on its website. In a letter to affected customers, the retailer said that it had detected malware on its e-commerce website on October 15 and that it had been active for a little over a week. .