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2019-04-03 10:45:01 | (Déjà vu) Georgia Tech\'s Data Breach Exposes 1.3M (lien direct) | It has been reported that a database breach at Georgia Tech has exposed the personal information of up to 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants, according to school officials. Georgia Tech announced yesterday that a central database was accessed by an unknown outside entity through a web application, though it is unclear exactly who was affected. … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Georgia Tech’s Data Breach Exposes 1.3M | Data Breach | ||
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2019-04-03 09:45:03 | Buca Di Beppo Parent (Earl) Admits Breach – How to avoid similar situation (lien direct) | Following the news that a Buca di Beppo Parent admits Breach a month after 2 million customer cards sold online, Jonathan Deveaux commented and offered advice for organizations to avoid a similar situation. Jonathan Deveaux, Head of Enterprise Data Protection at comforte AG: “If Italian food doesn’t give you heartburn, a data breach will! Cut … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Buca Di Beppo Parent (Earl) Admits Breach – How to avoid similar situation | Data Breach | ||
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2019-04-03 09:00:03 | Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes Info for 1.3 Million People (lien direct) | Georgia Tech announced yesterday that a vulnerability in a web application allowed an attacker to gain access to the personal information of up to 1.3 million students, college applications, staff, and faculty members. [...] | Data Breach Vulnerability | ||
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2019-04-03 05:22:03 | Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Users\' Personal Data (lien direct) | The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants.
In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside entity gained "unauthorized access" to its web application and accessed the University's central |
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2019-04-02 03:00:00 | If the Data Breach Doesn\'t Kill Your Business, the Fine Might (lien direct) | When you hear about a data breach in the news, it’s usually related to a major company or social media network that has been targeted. The erroneous conclusion would be that the hackers only focus on exploiting security flaws in large organizations, but the opposite is true. The reality is that cybercrime is deadly to […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-04-01 10:04:02 | Don\'t be foolish when it comes to data security (lien direct) |  Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at SafeToGo Solutions. Thanks to the great team there for their support!
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2019-03-29 14:38:05 | Millions of Toyota Customers in Japan Hit by Data Breach (lien direct) | Personal information belonging to millions of Toyota customers in Japan may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by a Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-29 13:14:00 | Toyota Customer Information Exposed in Data Breach (lien direct) | The attackers hit dealer sales systems in Japan, according to the automaker. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-29 10:24:02 | Data breach exposes diagnosis data of 34,000 medical marijuana patients (lien direct) | An electronic system used by a Canadian service and its parent company was compromised. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-28 09:11:00 | APT group Elfin switches from data destruction to data stealing via WinRAR vulnerability (lien direct) | Elfin (aka APT33), a hacker group affiliated with the Iranian government, is described by Symantec as “one of the most active groups currently operating in the Middle East.” They have been linked with a string of attacks on U.S. and Saudi Arabian companies, particularly in the aerospace and energy sectors. [ 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 Vulnerability | APT33 APT 33 | |
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2019-03-26 03:00:00 | How to report a data breach under GDPR (lien direct) | The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a broad set of regulations that dictate how a company handles the personal data of citizens within the European Union. Articles 33 and 34 of the GDPR outlines the requirements to notify both a supervisory authority and affected data subjects in the event of a data breach. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-25 21:27:04 | Millions Of Emails Exposed In Oregon DHS Data Breach (lien direct) | News recently broke that the emails of over 350k clients of the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) have potentially been compromised after 9 employees were the target of a spear phishing campaign. It left 2 million emails potentially exposed. The Oregon Department of Human Services announced that roughly 2 million emails with Protected Health Information … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Millions Of Emails Exposed In Oregon DHS Data Breach | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-22 14:58:04 | D.C. Attorney General Introduces New Data Security Bill (lien direct) | Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, on Thursday announced the introduction of a new bill that aims to expand data breach notification requirements and improve the way personal information is protected by organizations. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-22 09:53:05 | 2 Million Emails of 350K+ Clients Possibly Exposed in Oregon DHS Data Breach (lien direct) | The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) announced that roughly 2 million emails with Protected Health Information from more than 350,000 customers have been potentially exposed after 9 employee mailboxes were compromised in a spear phishing attack. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-21 21:36:00 | ZOLL Medical Device Data Breach Caused By Third Party (lien direct) | Medical device company ZOLL has announced a data breach of patient information involving a third-party provider, stating: On January 24, 2019, ZOLL learned of a data security incident that impacted the personal and medical information of some patients. As a precaution, ZOLL is providing this notice to make potentially affected patients aware of the incident and provide information on … The ISBuzz Post: This Post ZOLL Medical Device Data Breach Caused By Third Party | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-21 20:26:01 | 5 Characteristics of an Effective Incident Response Team: Lessons From the Front Line (lien direct) | >How you respond to a data breach matters. What qualities do the most elite incident response teams possess? The IBM X-Force IRIS team shares its lessons from the front line. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-21 15:26:01 | Finland to Investigate Suspected Nokia Chinese Data Breach (lien direct) | Finnish authorities will launch an investigation into claims that Nokia phones have been transmitting users' personal data to China, the country's data protection ombudsman announced on Thursday. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-21 10:30:02 | When Is a Data Breach a Data Breach? (lien direct) | A data breach remains a common headline in the news cycle. A different company, website or social network reports a security issue almost daily. If it feels like using the internet has become a risky endeavor, the feeling is accurate. But what exactly classifies an event as a data breach? The world wide web is […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-20 10:30:03 | Kathmandu Clothing Retailer Probes Possible Card Skimming Data Breach (lien direct) | Outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu announced that it is investigating a potential breach of customer card data harvested from its websites. In a statement posted to the New Zealand Exchange (NZE), the firm said it was notifying potentially affected customers directly, advising them to contact their banks and card providers: “Kathmandu has recently become aware that between January … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Kathmandu Clothing Retailer Probes Possible Card Skimming Data Breach | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-19 22:58:04 | 99% Of SMEs Do Not Have Sufficient Skills To Prevent Cyberattacks. (lien direct) | An alarming cybersecurity skills shortage has been exposed with just one in five companies revealed to have sufficient in-house capability to protect critical assets from attack, a study has found. 96% of those hit by a data breach in the last year report that inadequate security testing was at least somewhat responsible for the issue. […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-14 11:01:02 | Outdoor retailer Kathmandu hit by data breach. (lien direct) | Kathmandu, an outdoor wear and equipment retailer, revealed that it suffered a data breach that disclosed its customers' credit card and personal information. The New Zealand-based company stated that unknown intruders allegedly gained access to its online trading website for over a month between January 8, 2019, and February 12, 2019. Kathmandu stated the hackers […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-14 08:51:05 | NEW TECH: CyberGRX seeks to streamline morass of third-party cyber risk assessments (lien direct) | When Target fired both its CEO and CIO in 2014, it was a wake-up call for senior management. The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor's compromised account. C-suite execs across the land suddenly realized something similar could happen to them. So they began inundating their […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-11 16:31:00 | Equifax Was Aware of Cybersecurity Weaknesses for Years, Senate Report Says (lien direct) | The massive Equifax data breach that impacted 148 million Americans in 2017 was the result of years of poor cybersecurity practices, a new Staff Report from the United States Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reveals. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-03-11 16:15:05 | Record-Setting Verifications.io Data Breach (lien direct) | News of a second major data breach took place because of unprotected databases and servers, which has now left 763 million unique emails from Verifications.io exposed. This breach just equipped cybercriminals with 763 million opportunities to commit fraud, but it also exposed “business intelligence data,” including employee and revenue figures, in an unusual circumstance. there's a … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Record-Setting Verifications.io Data Breach | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-11 00:52:01 | Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data (lien direct) | Popular enterprise software company Citrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals."
Citrix said it was warned by the FBI on Wednesday of foreign hackers compromising its IT systems and stealing "business documents," |
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2019-03-08 17:30:00 | Citrix Hacked by \'International Cybercriminals\' (lien direct) | FBI informed Citrix this week of a data breach that appears to have begun with a 'password spraying' attack to steal weak credentials to access the company's network. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-08 11:51:01 | Insecure Database Leads to Over 800 Million Records Data Breach (lien direct) | An unprotected 140+ GB MongoDB database led to the discovery of a huge collection of 808,539,939 email records, with many of them also containing detailed personally identifiable information (PII). [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-07 07:39:03 | (Déjà vu) Whitefly espionage group was linked to SingHealth Singapore Healthcare Breach (lien direct) | Security experts at Symantec linked the massive Singapore Healthcare breach suffered by SingHealth to the ‘Whitefly’ cyberespionage group. In 2018, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-06 17:30:04 | Verizon Refocuses The Cyber Investigations Spotlight On The World Of Insider Threats (lien direct) | The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series opened the doors to the world of cybercrime – now, this dataset and caseload analysis has been refocused on the role of the insider – forming the Verizon Insider Threat Report. Twenty percent of cybersecurity incidents and 15 percent of the data breaches investigated within the Verizon 2018 DBIR originated … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Verizon Refocuses The Cyber Investigations Spotlight On The World Of Insider Threats | Data Breach Threat | ||
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2019-03-05 18:34:05 | Rush Health System Reports Data Breach Affecting 45,000 (lien direct) | Rush System for Health says personal information from about 45,000 patients may have been compromised in a data breach. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-03-04 06:52:03 | Data Breach Cost Marriott $28 Million So Far (lien direct) | The massive data breach disclosed by Marriott last year has cost the company $28 million to date, most of which has been covered by insurance, the hotel giant revealed last week in its earnings report for the last quarter of 2018. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-28 11:46:01 | (Déjà vu) Topps.com Sports Collectible Site Exposes Payment Info in MageCart Attack. (lien direct) | Last week, the sports trading card and collectible company Topps issued a data breach notification stating that it was affected by an attack, which possibly exposed the payment and address information of its customers. This type of attack is called a MageCart attack, which is when attackers hack a site to inject a malicious script into a site’s […] | Data Breach Hack | ||
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2019-02-27 17:10:01 | Topps.com Sports Collectible Site Exposes Payment Info in MageCart Attack (lien direct) | The sports trading card and collectible company Topps disclosed issued a data breach notification stating that it was affected by an attack, which possibly exposed the payment and address information of its customers. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-27 14:02:05 | Why businesses fear cyberattacks from ex-employees more than nation states (lien direct) | A major data breach would likely shut down half of SMBs permanently, according to an AppRiver report. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-25 14:30:01 | PoS Provider Hack That Affected Customers At 130 Locations (lien direct) | Point-of-Sale Solutions Provider – North County Business Products was hacked and credit-card stealing malware was put on the networks of clients across the country like Dunn Brothers Coffee, Zipps Sports Grill and Someburros outlets. POS Firm Hacked, Malware Deployed at 130+ Outlets: Clients of North County Business Products hit by data breach https://t.co/nNCAXYZbof pic.twitter.com/y5FZkGZh8C — Shah Sheikh (@shah_sheikh) February 22, … The ISBuzz Post: This Post PoS Provider Hack That Affected Customers At 130 Locations | Data Breach Malware Hack | ||
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2019-02-25 13:22:05 | California Introduces New Data Breach Notification Law (lien direct) | California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Assemblymember Marc Levine last week introduced a new piece of legislation that would require organizations to notify consumers if their passport or biometric information has been compromised in a data breach. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-22 12:32:01 | Proposed Bill Would Strengthen California\'s Data Breach Notification Law (lien direct) | A new bill would strengthen California’s data breach notification law by expanding the types of information of whose exposure businesses are legally obligated to inform their customers. On 21 February, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Assembly Member Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) revealed AB 1130. This bill would require businesses to notify customers of a […]… Read More | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-22 11:20:00 | New Legislation Builds on California Data Breach Law (lien direct) | This bill requires businesses to notify consumers of compromised passport numbers and biometric data. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-21 12:01:00 | (Déjà vu) 7 mobile security threats you should take seriously in 2019 (lien direct) | Mobile security is at the top of every company's worry list these days - and for good reason: Nearly all workers now routinely access corporate data from smartphones, and that means keeping sensitive info out of the wrong hands is an increasingly intricate puzzle. The stakes, suffice it to say, are higher than ever: The average cost of a corporate data breach is a whopping $3.86 million, according to a 2018 report by the Ponemon Institute. That's 6.4 percent more than the estimated cost just one year earlier. [ Learn how SandBlast Mobile simplifies mobile security. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-20 15:30:00 | POS Vendor Announces January Data Breach (lien direct) | More than 120 restaurants were affected by an incident that exposed customer credit card information. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-20 09:08:03 | Security breach at North Country PoS firm hits hundreds of US restaurants and Hotels (lien direct) | North Country Business Products POS (point-of-sale) and security solutions provider announced a data breach that affected hundreds of U.S. restaurants and hotels. North Country Business Products point-of-sale and security solutions provider announced a data breach, the company is currently used by 6500 customers around the Midwest. “North Country Business Products, Inc. (“North Country”), today announced that a recent data […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-19 20:07:05 | Breach at PoS Firm Hits Hundreds of U.S. Restaurants, Hotels (lien direct) | Point-of-sale (PoS) solutions provider North Country Business Products, whose products are used at over 6,500 locations across the United States, recently disclosed a data breach that resulted in the exposure of payment card data. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-19 18:10:00 | Cards Used at 137 Restaurants Exposed by Point-of-Sale Breach (lien direct) | North Country Business Products point-of-sale and security solutions provider with roughly 6500 customers around the Midwest has disclosed a data breach which led to the exposure of payment information for clients who used their credit and debit cards at 137 restaurants. [...] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-19 11:32:01 | LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers (lien direct) | Westpac Group says names, addresses, and contact details may have been exposed through the third party breach. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-19 08:29:05 | 450,000 usernames and passwords stolen from Coinmama cryptocurrency broker (lien direct) |  Coinmama, a site that is supposed to “make it fast, safe and fun” to buy Bitcoins and Etherium with a credit card, has suffered a data breach that has resulted in almost half a million customers having their personal details breached.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2019-02-19 03:00:00 | Review: SlashNext is like shooting phish in a barrel (lien direct) | Using social engineering in conjunction with malicious program delivery, a technique known as phishing, remains one of the biggest threats to the cybersecurity landscape. If human users can be tricked into taking an action such as downloading malware, connecting with a compromised website, or even providing their credentials directly to criminals, it often overrides many of the automatic protections that cyber defenses offer. It's become so popular and so successful that the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts phishing and social engineering attacks at the center of 93 percent of breaches in 2018. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-18 13:28:04 | Wendy\'s Reaches $50 Million Settlement With Banks Over Data Breach (lien direct) | US fast food restaurant chain Wendy's announced recently that it has reached a settlement with the thousands of financial institutions impacted by the data breach suffered by the company in 2015 and 2016. | Data Breach | ||
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2019-02-15 22:30:01 | Data Breach Bonanza: Dating Apps, Equifax, Mass Credential Dumps (lien direct) | Data-exposure "lowlights" for the week ending Feb. 15, 2019. | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-02-15 21:30:00 | Equifax Data Breach A Sign Of Global Cyberwarfare? (lien direct) | The Equifax data breach in which millions of Americans had their personal details stolen may have been carried out by a foreign government in a bid to recruit U.S. spies, experts believe. Off the back of this, please see comments from Terry Ray, senior vice president and Imperva fellow who talks about how this is … The ISBuzz Post: This Post Equifax Data Breach A Sign Of Global Cyberwarfare? | Data Breach | Equifax | |
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2019-02-15 11:15:04 | Coffee Meets Bagel dating app confirms data breach (lien direct) | The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […] | Data Breach Hack |
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