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2019-07-24 04:38:00 | Equifax\'s billion-dollar data breach disaster: Will it change executive attitudes toward security? (lien direct) | Equifax announced on Monday that it has agreed to a record-breaking settlement related to its massive 2017 data breach, which exposed the personal and financial records of more than 148 million people. The settlement requires the beleaguered credit ratings agency to spend at least $1.38 billion to resolve consumer claims against it. It creates a non-reversionary fund of $380.5 million to pay benefits to the class of consumers harmed by the breach, including cash compensation, credit monitoring, and help with identity restoration. [ How much does a data breach cost? Here's where the money goes. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-23 17:26:01 | Experts Commentary On Equifax Settlement (lien direct) | Reuters is reporting that credit-reporting company Equifax Inc will pay up to a record $650 million to settle U.S. federal and state probes into a massive 2017 data breach of personal information, authorities said on Monday. The largest-ever settlement for a data breach draws to a close multiple probes into Equifax by the Federal Trade Commission, the … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Experts Commentary On Equifax Settlement | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-23 13:00:04 | What\'s New in the 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report (lien direct) | According to the latest Ponemon Institute study, the average cost of a data breach in 2019 is $3.92 million, up 1.5 percent from last year. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-23 12:36:04 | How businesses can reduce the financial impact of data breaches (lien direct) | The cost of a data breach has grown 12% over the past 5 years, hitting $3.92 million on average. Organizations can take steps to mitigate the financial damage, according to a new report. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-23 10:50:04 | Lancaster University Says Phishing Attack Behind Data Breach (lien direct) | Lancaster University has revealed that a successful phishing attack resulted in a data breach involving the data of its students and applicants. On 22 July, the public research university announced on Twitter that it had suffered a “sophisticated and malicious phishing attack.” This tweet linked to a security update published on the school’s website. A […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-23 00:55:00 | Equifax to Pay up to $700 Million in 2017 Data Breach Settlement (lien direct) | Equifax, one of the three largest credit-reporting firms in the United States, has to pay up to $700 million in fines to settle a series of state and federal investigations into the massive 2017 data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans-that's almost half the country.
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2019-07-22 19:27:01 | What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement (lien direct) | Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here's a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for you, and what it says about the value of your identity. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-22 18:23:00 | Equifax to Pay Up to $700mn for Data Breach Damages (lien direct) | In a settlement with the FTC, consumers affected by the breach are eligible for up to $20,000 in a cash settlement, depending on damages they can prove. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-22 16:19:03 | AMCA Breach: Many More Impacted Healthcare Firms Come Forward (lien direct) | Many more healthcare companies in the United States published press releases last week to inform customers that they had been impacted by the data breach suffered by the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-22 14:31:00 | (Déjà vu) Equifax, regulators sign $700m deal to settle data breach lawsuits (lien direct) | The massive security incident exposed personal details belonging to almost 150 million customers. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-22 13:00:03 | (Déjà vu) L\'authentification multifacteur peut vous aider à sécuriser vos connexions Active Directory (lien direct) | Le mot de passe est probablement la mesure de sécurité la plus courante et la plus utilisée, mais c'est également la plus vulnérable. En effet, l'’utilisation d'identifiants internes compromis par un attaquant externe représente, selon Verizon et son Data Breach Investigations Report 2018, la menace la plus courante dans les violations de données. C'est pourquoi de […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-22 11:21:04 | Equifax to pay up to $700m to settle data breach (lien direct) | The credit score agency has agreed a settlement after hackers stole 147 million people's details. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-22 08:30:01 | Slack Resets User Passwords After 2015 Data Breach (lien direct) | Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In 2015, the company said it was hit by hackers who gained access to its user profile database, including their scrambled passwords. But the hackers inserted code that scraped the … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Slack Resets User Passwords After 2015 Data Breach | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-22 08:06:05 | Equifax, regulators close to signing $700m deal to settle data breach lawsuits (lien direct) | The massive security incident exposed personal details belonging to almost 150 million customers. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-07-19 12:56:01 | Slack response. Passwords reset four years after data breach (lien direct) | Slack would have been wiser – in an abundance of caution – to reset all of its users’ passwords back in March 2015. After all, leaving it until four years later looks a little bit… slack. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-19 06:39:04 | (Déjà vu) Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users (lien direct) | Slack is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015. Slack announced it is resetting passwords for accounts belonging to users that have not secured them after the data breach suffered by the company in 2015. “In response to new information […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-18 18:31:04 | AMCA data breach affects over 2 million patients. (lien direct) | Another clinical lab ensnared in the AMCA data breach has come forward. Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) says 2.2 million patients may have had their names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, dates of service, balance information and treatment provider information stolen in the previously reported breach. Another 34,500 patients had their credit card or banking information […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-18 18:29:03 | 36 terabyte data breach confirmed by Lenovo. (lien direct) | Lenovo has confirmed that a “high severity” security vulnerability has left users of specific network-attached storage devices with data exposed to anyone who went looking for it. How much data? How does at least 36TB grab you? That’s the number that the security researchers who uncovered the vulnerability in the Lenovo-EMC storage products put on […] | Data Breach Vulnerability | ||
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2019-07-18 14:15:05 | Slack Resetting More User Passwords in Response to 2015 Breach (lien direct) | Slack announced on Thursday that it's resetting passwords for accounts that users have not secured after the data breach suffered by the company back in 2015. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-17 16:30:02 | Telecoms Giant Sprint Suffers Data Breach via Samsung Website (lien direct) | It has been reported that American telecommunications provider Sprint has suffered a data breach, telling customers that hackers broke into their accounts through a Samsung website. The number of customer accounts breached isn’t yet known. The hack occurred June 22, Sprint told its customers in a letter, and included details like first and last name, billing address, phone number, subscriber ID, account number, … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Telecoms Giant Sprint Suffers Data Breach via Samsung Website | Data Breach Hack | ||
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2019-07-17 16:10:00 | AMCA Breach Impacts 2.2 Million Patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories (lien direct) | Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest organization to inform customers that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by healthcare billing services provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-17 10:50:05 | Breach at Bulgaria\'s Tax Agency Exposed Data of Over 70% Citizens (lien direct) | Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people.
According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier this week emailed them download links to 11GB of stolen data which included taxpayer's personal |
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2019-07-17 06:25:01 | Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches (lien direct) | Starting in Firefox 70, Mozilla aims to have the browser report when any of your saved logins were found in data breaches. This will be done through their partnership with the Have I Been Pwned data breach site. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-16 12:00:02 | The Wild West Era Has Ended - What\'s Next for Data Privacy? (lien direct) | People often think of the cybersecurity industry as the Wild West, but data privacy regulations have been influencing the way companies respond to a data breach for well over a decade. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-16 06:25:00 | Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media (lien direct) | Source of the data breach appears to be the country's National Revenue Agency. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-15 20:31:00 | Evite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach (lien direct) | The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite users who had their information exposed when attackers gained unauthorized access to their servers. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-12 06:51:00 | Premera Blue Cross Pays States $10 Million Over Data Breach (lien direct) | Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-10 12:23:01 | Marriott faces £99.2 million fine after hack exposed 393 million hotel guest records (lien direct) | The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (IOC) has announced its intention to fine the US hotel group Marriott International £99.2 million (US $123 million) for a data breach that exposed the personal details of hundreds of millions of guests. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. | Data Breach Hack | ||
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2019-07-10 12:04:00 | Marriott to Contest $124 Million Fine Imposed by UK Data Protection Regulator (lien direct) | Marriott International says it will fight a large fine resulting from a massive data breach that was discovered in 2018. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-10 06:42:01 | UK ICO proposes a $123 million fine for Marriott 2014 data breach (lien direct) | The UK’s data privacy regulator plans to fine giant hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million ($123 million) under GDPR over 2014 data breach. The company replied that it will fight against the fine, it could reply to the UK ICO’s proposal before the final determination. The UK’s data privacy regulator announced that the giant hotel […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-10 01:32:04 | Marriott Faces $123 Million Fine in UK for Data Breach (lien direct) | Marriott says it will fight a $123 million U.K. government fine related to its massive data breach. Marriott has the right to respond to the proposed fine before a final determination is made by the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office. The agency says the breach violated the European Union's data protection regulations. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-09 14:00:00 | Marriott faces $123 million GDPR fine in the UK for last year\'s data breach (lien direct) | The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-09 12:59:00 | (Déjà vu) Maryland Department of Labor discloses a data breach (lien direct) | The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-09 12:54:03 | Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach (lien direct) | After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million ($123 million) fine under GDPR over 2014 data breach.
This is the second major penalty notice in the last two days that hit companies for failing to protect its customers' personal and |
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2019-07-09 12:02:00 | Marriott Faces $124 Million GDPR Fine in UK (lien direct) | The proposed penalty is for a data breach beginning in 2014 that affected more than 500 million customers worldwide. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-09 10:05:02 | Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine for 2018 Data Breach (lien direct) | The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) intends to fine Marriott International Inc £99,200,396 ($123,705,869 / €110,385,736) for infringing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) according to a press release published today. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-08 20:34:05 | Maryland Department of Labor Announces Data Breach (lien direct) | The Maryland Department of Labor has announced that databases containing personally identifiable information (PII) were accessed in a cyber-incident discovered earlier this year. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-08 13:35:01 | BA faced with record fine following 2018 data breach - Netwrix comments (lien direct) | British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m following last year's breach of its systems, which the ICO says is the largest penalty it has handed out under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Matt Middleton-Leal, general manager, EMEA & APAC at Netwrix has made the following comments in response : “In the era of GDPR, vast fines such as the record penalty facing British Airways following its 2018 data breach are a new fact of life for big businesses that fail in their (...) - Malwares | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-08 11:20:02 | National Trade Association Discloses Data Breach Tied to Alleged Phishing Attack (lien direct) | A national trade association has disclosed a data breach that allegedly took place following a successful phishing attack. On 3 July, the American Land Title Association (ALTA) said that the security incident affected title and settlement company usernames and passwords. It also noted that it first learned about the data breach on social media. As […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-08 10:14:04 | British Airways faces record £183 million GDPR fine after data breach (lien direct) | British Airways is facing a record fine of £183 million, after its systems were breached by hackers last year and the personal and payment card information of around 500,000 customers were stolen. Here's what you need to know. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-07-08 06:41:02 | British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach (lien direct) | The airline is contesting the penalty imposed by the watchdog after hackers breached its IT systems last year. | Data Breach | ★★ | |
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2019-07-08 01:22:02 | British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach (lien direct) | Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach.
British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite Airline," disclosed a breach last year that exposed personal details and credit-card numbers of |
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2019-07-02 05:06:00 | AppTrana - Website Security Solution That Actually Works (lien direct) | Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines.
In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148.
Most of these data leaks are because of malicious attacks, where exploitation of web application |
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2019-07-01 11:30:03 | Former Equifax executive sent behind bars for insider trades, profiting on data breach (lien direct) | An opportunity to cash in on the data breach was seized, with prison as a consequence. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-06-28 11:40:00 | Cloud Provider PCM Suffers Data Breach (lien direct) | Attackers were reportedly able to compromise email and file-sharing systems for some of PCM's customers. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-06-28 04:58:04 | Former Equifax Executive Gets 4 Months for Insider Trading (lien direct) | A former Equifax executive who sold stock a week and a half before the company announced a massive data breach was sentenced Thursday to serve four months in federal prison for insider trading. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-06-25 22:16:05 | (Déjà vu) Health insurer reports 9 year old data breach. (lien direct) | Dominion National first spotted something awry in April 2019. Dental and vision insurance provider and administrator Dominion National has begun notifying patients of a data breach of its systems that apparently dates back to August 2010. The insurer said an incident investigation that began on April 24, 2019, led to the discovery that its servers […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-06-25 10:10:00 | Facebook\'s bid to quash data breach lawsuit dismissed by judge (lien direct) | Whether the social media giant likes it or not, the court case is going ahead. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-06-25 07:58:02 | Report: Organizations not completely clear on what IT security incidents to report (lien direct) | Defining a data breach can be tough for a lot of organizations. However, since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, organizations that operate in the EU need to follow regulatory guidelines that can have real business implications if ignored. But when a cyber incident hits your organization, do you know […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-06-25 05:42:00 | (Déjà vu) SocialEngineered forum hacked and data leaked online (lien direct) | SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Hackers accessed data from tens of thousands of members and leaked them online on […] | Data Breach |
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