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2021-03-04 01:49:19 | (Déjà vu) Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit (lien direct) | Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents.
As proof of access to the data, the cybercriminals behind the recent hacks targeting Accellion FTA servers have shared |
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2021-02-12 20:39:52 | (Déjà vu) Yandex Employee Caught Selling Access to Users\' Email Inboxes (lien direct) | Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing and email service provider Yandex on Friday disclosed a data breach that compromised 4,887 email accounts of its users.
The company blamed the incident on an unnamed employee who had been providing unauthorized access to the users' mailboxes for personal gain.
"The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access |
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2020-08-20 14:39:35 | Former Uber Security Chief Charged Over Covering Up 2016 Data Breach (lien direct) | The federal prosecutors in the United States have charged Uber's former chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, for covering up a massive data breach that the ride-hailing company suffered in 2016.
According to the press release published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Sullivan "took deliberate steps to conceal, deflect, and mislead the Federal Trade Commission about the breach" that also |
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2020-08-20 11:22:31 | Experian South Africa Suffers Data Breach Affecting Millions; Attacker Identified (lien direct) | The South African arm of one of the world's largest credit check companies Experian yesterday announced a data breach incident that exposed personal information of millions of its customers.
While Experian itself didn't mention the number of affect customers, in a report, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre-an anti-fraud and banking non-profit organization who worked with |
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2020-08-07 05:33:51 | Capital One Fined $80 Million for 2019 Data Breach Affecting 106 Million Users (lien direct) | A United States regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over last year's data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants of Americans.
The fine was imposed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury that |
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2020-06-01 04:34:02 | Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) Portal Suffers Data Breach (lien direct) | Joomla, one of the most popular Open-source content management systems (CMS), last week announced a new data breach impacting 2,700 users who have an account with its resources directory (JRD) website, i.e., resources.joomla.org.
The breach exposed affected users' personal information, such as full names, business addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords.
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2020-05-19 06:50:41 | British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers\' Data (lien direct) | British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers.
In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9 million affected users, a small subset of customers, i.e., 2,208 customers, have also had their |
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2020-03-31 08:52:13 | Marriott Suffers Second Breach Exposing Data of 5.2 Million Hotel Guests (lien direct) | International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years.
"At the end of February 2020, we identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise property," Marriott said in a |
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2020-03-17 12:41:33 | TrueFire Guitar Tutoring Website Suffers Magecart-style Credit Card Breach (lien direct) | Online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has apparently suffered a 'Magecart' style data breach incident that may have potentially led to the exposure of its customers' personal information and payment card information.
TrueFire is one of the popular guitar tutoring websites with over 1 million users, where wanna-be-guitarists pay online to access a massive library of over 900 courses and |
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2020-03-06 05:09:17 | Virgin Media Data Leak Exposes Details of 900,000 Customers (lien direct) | On the same day yesterday, when the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile admitted a data breach, the UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media announced that it has also suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,000 customers.
What happened?
Unlike the T-Mobile data breach that involved a sophisticated cyber attack, Virgin Media said the incident was |
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2020-03-05 08:34:31 | Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee\' Email Accounts and Steal User\' Data (lien direct) | If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you.
US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers.
What happened? In a breach notification posted on its website, T-Mobile today said its cybersecurity team recently discovered a sophisticated |
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2020-02-10 07:57:01 | U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Hackers Over Equifax Data Breach (lien direct) | The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans.
In a joint press conference held today with the Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, the DoJ officials labeled the state-sponsored |
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2019-12-20 02:05:48 | Hackers Stole Customers\' Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores (lien direct) | Have you stopped at any Wawa convenience store and used your payment card to buy gas or snacks in the last nine months?
If yes, your credit and debit card details may have been stolen by cybercriminals.
Wawa, the Philadelphia-based gas and convenience store chain, disclosed a data breach incident that may have exposed payment card information of thousands of customers who used their cards at |
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2019-12-18 07:18:05 | LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians (lien direct) | LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million Canadians customers.
The company announced the breach in a press release posted on its website, revealing that an unknown attacker unauthorizedly accessed its computer systems last month and stole customers |
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2019-11-27 18:56:21 | Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach Exposing Users\' Account Info (lien direct) | If you have ever registered an account with the official Magento marketplace to bought or sold any extension, plugin, or e-commerce website theme, you must change your password immediately.
Adobe-the company owning Magento e-commerce platform-today disclosed a new data breach incident that exposed account information of Magento marketplace users to an unknown group of hackers or individuals. |
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2019-11-22 22:52:54 | OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers (lien direct) | Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website.
The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via email and published a brief FAQ page to disclose information about the security incident.
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2019-11-21 22:27:06 | T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Wireless Customers (lien direct) | Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection.
The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some of the customers using its prepaid services.
What happened? In a statement posted on its website |
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2019-11-11 07:44:48 | Hackers Breach ZoneAlarm\'s Forum Site - Outdated vBulletin to Blame (lien direct) | ZoneAlarm, an internet security software company owned by Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach exposing data of its discussion forum users, the company confirmed The Hacker News.
With nearly 100 million downloads, ZoneAlarm offers antivirus software, firewall, and additional virus protection solutions to home PC users, small businesses, and mobile |
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2019-10-31 03:40:27 | Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach (lien direct) | Another day, another massive data breach-this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites.
The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and Register.com disclosed a security breach that may have resulted in the theft of customers' account |
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2019-09-27 02:08:41 | DoorDash Breach Exposes 4.9 Million Users\' Personal Data (lien direct) | Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online?
If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now immediately.
DoorDash-the popular on-demand food-delivery service-today confirmed a massive data breach that affects almost 5 million people using its platform, including its customers, delivery workers, and merchants as well.
DoorDash is a San |
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2019-09-18 07:11:00 | IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador\'s History (lien direct) | Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country's history.
Personal records of more than 20 million adults and children, both dead and alive, were found publicly exposed on an unsecured |
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2019-09-16 04:57:16 | How Cloud-Based Automation Can Keep Business Operations Secure (lien direct) | The massive data breach at Capital One – America's seventh-largest bank, according to revenue – has challenged many common assumptions about cloud computing for the first time.
Ironically, the incident, which exposed some 106 million Capital One customers' accounts, has only reinforced the belief that the cloud remains the safest way to store sensitive data.
"You have to compare [the cloud] |
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2019-09-03 08:31:02 | XKCD Forum Hacked – Over 562,000 Users\' Account Details Leaked (lien direct) | XKCD-one of the most popular webcomic platforms known for its geeky tech humor and other science-laden comic strips on romance, sarcasm, math, and language-has suffered a data breach exposing data of its forum users.
The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 |
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2019-08-30 11:02:04 | Foxit PDF Software Company Suffers Data Breach-Asks Users to Reset Password (lien direct) | If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately-as an unknown attacker has compromised your personal data and log-in credentials.
Foxit Software, a company known for its popular lightweight Foxit PDF Reader and PhantomPDF applications being used by over 525 million users, today announced a data breach exposing the personal information of |
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2019-08-27 11:36:03 | Imperva Breach Exposes WAF Customers\' Data, Including SSL Certs, API Keys (lien direct) | Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today.
The security breach particularly affects customers of Imperva's Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula, a |
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2019-08-26 04:41:05 | Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users (lien direct) | Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure.
In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that "an unauthorized third party" breached one of its servers and gained access to "hashed passwords and other non-financial data" associated with its millions of |
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2019-07-29 21:59:04 | Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested (lien direct) | Another week, another massive data breach.
Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the United States and 6 million in Canada.
The data breach that occurred on March 22nd and 23rd this year allowed attackers to steal information of |
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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.
According to an official announcement by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC |
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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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2019-07-09 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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2019-07-08 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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2019-05-31 01:20:02 | Hackers Stole Customers\' Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally\'s Restaurants (lien direct) | If you have swiped your payment card at the popular Checkers and Rally's drive-through restaurant chains in past 2-3 years, you should immediately request your bank to block your card and notify it if you notice any suspicious transaction.
Checkers, one of the largest drive-through restaurant chains in the United States, disclosed a massive long-running data breach yesterday that affected an |
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2019-05-17 00:43:03 | Hacker Breaks Into Stack Overflow Q&A Site, No Evidence of Data Breach (lien direct) | Stack Overflow, one of the largest question and answer site for programmers, revealed today that an unknown hacker(s) managed to gain unauthorized access to its production systems on May 11, 2019.
Founded by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008, Stack Overflow is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network. With 10 million registered users and over 50 million unique visitors every month, |
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2019-05-09 14:46:03 | U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach (lien direct) | The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies.
Fujie Wang (王 福 杰) and another hacker named John Doe with three different aliases-Deniel Jack, Kim Young, and Zhou Zhihong-are charged with four |
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2019-05-06 12:37:03 | Popular Online Tutoring Marketplace \'Wyzant\' Suffers Data Breach (lien direct) | Wyzant-an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects-has suffered a data breach exposing "certain personal identification information" for its customers.
The Hacker News received a copy of an email notification Wyzant recently sent to its affected customers, which reveals an unknown |
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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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2019-03-11 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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2019-01-31 00:59:01 | Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees\' Data Exposed (lien direct) | European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some of its employees' personal information.
Though the company did not elaborate on the nature of the hack, it claimed that the security breach did not affect its commercial operations. So, there's no impact on aircraft production.
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2019-01-05 01:37:03 | Town of Salem Data Breach Exposes 7.6 Million Gamers\' Accounts (lien direct) | A massive data breach at the popular online role-playing game 'Town of Salem' has reportedly impacted more than 7.6 million players, the game owner BlankMediaGames (BMG) confirmed Wednesday on its online forum.
With the user base of more than 8 million players, Town of Salem is a browser-based game that enables gamers (which range from 7 to 15 users) to play a version of the famous secret role
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2018-12-19 00:43:03 | Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach (lien direct) | Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was hacked.
In an internal memo sent to all employees on Tuesday, NASA said the unknown hackers managed
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2018-12-18 03:35:03 | Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach (lien direct) | Twitter has been hit with a minor data breach incident that the social networking site believes linked to a suspected state-sponsored attack.
In a blog post published on Monday, Twitter revealed that while investigating a vulnerability affecting one of its support forms, the company discovered evidence of the bug being misused to access and steal users' exposed information.
The impacted
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2018-12-03 22:52:04 | Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen (lien direct) | The World's most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.
Quora announced the incident late Monday after its team last Friday discovered that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its
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2018-11-30 05:25:04 | 500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach (lien direct) | The world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International today disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and walked away with personal details of about 500 million guests.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide was acquired by Marriott International for $13 billion in 2016. The brand includes St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, W
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2018-11-27 05:39:03 | Uber fined $1.1 million by UK and Dutch regulators over 2016 data breach (lien direct) | British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 (~ 1.1 million) for failing to protect its customers' personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users.
Late last year, Uber unveiled that the company had suffered a massive data breach in October 2016, exposing names, email addresses and phone
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2018-11-20 03:00:03 | Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million (lien direct) | Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers.
Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth in Staffordshire, were sentenced Monday to 12 months and 8 months in prison,
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2018-10-09 01:37:00 | From Now On, Only Default Android Apps Can Access Call Log and SMS Data (lien direct) | A few hours ago the company announced its "non-shocking" plans to shut down Google+ social media network following a "shocking" data breach incident.
Now to prevent abuse and potential leakage of sensitive data to third-party app developers, Google has made several significant changes giving users more control over what type of data they choose to share with each app.
The changes are part of
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2018-10-08 12:31:00 | Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users\' Data (lien direct) | Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers.
According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People APIs allowed third-party developers to access data for more than 500,000 users, including their
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2018-09-25 08:09:04 | SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users (lien direct) | U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) of almost 6.5 million customers.
Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online fashion retailers that ships to more than 80 countries worldwide. The site has been initially
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2018-09-20 06:54:05 | UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach (lien direct) | Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been issued a £500,000 fine by the UK's privacy watchdog for its last year's massive data breach that exposed personal and financial data of hundreds of millions of its customers.
Yes, £500,000-that's the maximum fine allowed by the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, though the penalty is apparently a small figure for a $16 billion
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