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2020-05-22 10:23:12 | Unemployment claimants suffer data breach (lien direct) | The social security numbers and home addresses of thousands of unemployment applicants inadvertently were exposed this week in three states that had contracted with Deloitte to build unemployment portals. In Ohio, Illinois and Colorado, thousands who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, a type of unemployment newly available to the self-employed and gig workers, […] | Data Breach | Deloitte | ★★★★ |
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2020-05-21 09:43:49 | Home Chef Announces Data Breach (lien direct) | Meal kit delivery service Home Chef announced a data breach Wednesday, two weeks after reports that its customer information was for sale on the dark web. Home Chef, which was acquired by Kroger Co. in 2018, said it was notifying customers of the breach but didn't say how many customers were affected. In a statement, […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-20 15:48:45 | Expert Insight: easyJet data breach (lien direct) | By now I'm sure that you have heard about the easyJet data breach. More than 9 million customers suffered breached personally identifiable information (PII), and some 2,000 customers had their card details “viewed”. Hugo van den Toorn, manager of offensive security at Outpost 24 warned that “often after such a breach, information will be sold […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-20 09:56:01 | Rich clients could be extorted after BlockFi breach (lien direct) | BlockFi disclosed a data breach that potentially leaked the physical addresses and account activity of its customers, highlighting the risks of KYC finance platforms. Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-20 09:53:06 | EasyJet Data Breach impacts nine million customers (lien direct) | A cyber attack on budget airline EasyJet has resulted in the exposure of the email addresses and flight details of nine million of its customers, and the credit card details of 2,208 of them says the airline. A cyber attack on budget airline EasyJet has resulted in the exposure of the email addresses and flight […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-19 15:38:21 | Untangling the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2020 (lien direct) | Verizon published today its yearly Data Breach Investigation Report, based on real-world data from 41,686 security incidents and 2,013 data breaches provided by 73 data sources, both public and private entities, spanning 86 countries worldwide. The report provides a most useful snapshot of the current state of the fight against cybercrime, and highlights not only […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-19 10:28:34 | Unsecured cloud storage allows attacks according to Verizon data breach report (lien direct) | The plague of enterprises leaving cloud storage holding private data unprotected is starting to show up in the security statistics and is one of the few attacks on the rise, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report for 2020. That reality is both good and bad, said Gabe Bassett, senior information security data scientist […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-14 09:50:47 | U.S. Marshals Service data breach leaves 387,000 prisoners vulnerable (lien direct) | The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has started notifying 387,000 former and current inmates of a security breach that may have compromised their personal identifiable information. According to USMS officials, the incident occurred in December 2019, when a bad actor infiltrated the DSNet system, a platform that aids “the movement and housing of USMS prisoners with […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-13 09:48:20 | Data breach confirmed by Chatbooks (lien direct) | Photo print service Chatbooks has disclosed a data breach after customers' emails, passwords and more were listed for sale on underground forums. Photo-print service Chatbooks has confirmed a data breach, a week after cybercriminals listed a database containing customer email addresses, passwords and more for sale on an underground forum. The Utah-based company allows users […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-07 15:49:32 | World Password Day 2020: How Good Is Your Password Hygiene? (lien direct) | In these strange times, we all need something to celebrate, so happy World Password Day! Intel started World Password Day in 2013 and the first Thursday in May has been used to promote good password practices ever since. The need for strong passwords to protect personal data has been well-documented, with the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-07 09:58:59 | (Déjà vu) 22 million Unacademy records sold by hacker after breach (lien direct) | Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Unacademy is one of India’s largest online learning platforms boasting 14K teachers, over a million video lessons, and over 20 million registered users (learners). After recently […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-06 09:32:42 | (Déjà vu) Integrated data breach alerts in Firefox 76 (lien direct) | Mozilla has released Firefox 76 today, May 5th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux with bug fixes, new features, and security fixes. Included with today’s release are data breach notifications in the integrated Firefox Lockwise password manager, Picture-in-Picture, and new Audio Worklets for better audio processing. Windows, Mac, and Linux […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-05 09:55:40 | Breach revealing information of 774,000 migrants investigated (lien direct) | The home affairs and employment departments are investigating a data breach revealing the personal details of 774,000 migrants and people aspiring to migrate to Australia, despite playing down the seriousness of the breach. On Sunday, Guardian Australia revealed the government's SkillSelect app allowed users to see unique identifiers of applicants for skilled visas, including partial […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-05 09:54:44 | SSH access data breach reported by GoDaddy (lien direct) | GoDaddy on Tuesday reported [PDF] an October data breach to Californian authorities, stating that an unauthorised individual was able to access SSH accounts used in its hosting environment. “We have no evidence that any files were added or modified on your account,” the company said while omitting evidence that files could have been viewed and […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-05-04 09:53:06 | Details of 700,000 migrants possibly exposed in Home affairs breach (lien direct) | Privacy experts have blasted the home affairs department for a data breach revealing the personal details of 774,000 migrants and people aspiring to migrate to Australia, including partial names and the outcome of applications. At a time the federal government is asking Australians to trust the security of data collected by its Covid-Safe contact tracing […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-04-24 09:20:51 | Robert Dyas data breach slammed by customers (lien direct) | UK hardware store Robert Dyas has revealed that card-skimming malware on the chain’s e-commerce website has led to the theft of customer financial data. For 23 days, starting on March 7 and ending March 30, a card skimmer was operational on the Robert Dyas’ website, according to an email sent to customers and obtained by […] | Data Breach Malware | ||
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2020-04-23 10:34:05 | $8.9 Million Data Breach Settlement for Banner Health (lien direct) | Banner Health Inc.’s $8.9 million deal to end claims tied to a 2016 data breach gained final approval from a federal judge in Arizona. The settlement, approved by Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona April 21, will pay up to $500 to each class member and up to […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-04-22 09:50:36 | SBA data breach (lien direct) | A data breach in the Small Business Association's online application portal may have compromised personal information for nearly 8,000 businesses seeking emergency loans last month, the agency said today. In a letter to affected business owners, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, SBA said it discovered March 25 that the application system for […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-04-15 09:59:59 | 1.1 Million Customer Records exposed in SCUF data breach (lien direct) | SCUF data breach has taken place, exposing 1.1 million customer records including some credit card data. The breach was discovered by Comparitech, a pro-consumer website that is comprised of more than 30 researchers covering a variety of topics. One of these topics, naturally, is data breaches and this most recent one involving SCUF looks […] | Data Breach | ★★★★★ | |
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2020-04-15 09:58:26 | Data breach at San Francisco Airport (lien direct) | San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has warned that a breach against two of its websites may have allowed attackers to harvest visiting users' Windows login credentials. Malicious code was planted last month on two sites – SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com – as the result of a cyber-attack by unidentified (or at least unnamed) assailants, the airport […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-04-14 10:02:57 | 4 million Quidd users\' details shared on hacking forum (lien direct) | Quidd, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, appears to have suffered a data breach in 2019, and the details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums. The data, of which ZDNet has obtained samples from three different sources, contains Quidd usernames, email […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-25 11:15:29 | (Déjà vu) GE Discloses Data Breach (lien direct) | Fortune 500 technology giant General Electric (GE) disclosed that personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries, was exposed in a security incident experienced by one of GE’s service providers. GE is a multinational operating in a wide range of tech segments including aviation, power, healthcare, and renewable energy, and it […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-23 09:53:32 | 200 million Americans exposed by data breach (lien direct) | Huge data breach included personal information on more than 200 million Americans. Equally as bad, it’s unclear where the data came from. Researchers have noticed that detailed personal information of more than 200 million Americans was exposed in a data breach. This is the latest in a long list of data security incidents over […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-23 09:52:40 | Norwegian Cruise Line suffers data breach (lien direct) | The world’s third largest cruise line, Norwegian Cruise Line, has suffered a data breach, the British security firm DynaRisk says, adding that the email addresses and passwords of nearly 27,000 travel agents had been exposed as a result. DynaRisk said its researchers had found a breached database from the NCL travel agents’ portal on […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-18 10:51:03 | Six-Month Data Breach on Guitar Site (lien direct) | A Florida company that offers guitar lessons online to millions of students around the world has suffered a data breach.Unauthorized access of TrueFire’s computer system went on for six months before the breach was detected on January 10, 2020. In a data breach notification letter dated March 9, 2020, and signed by TrueFire Chief Customer […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-17 10:00:05 | 2.9 million records exposed by Blisk browser (lien direct) | The web-development browser Blisk suffered a data breach leaking more than 2.9 million records through an open Elasticsearch database that was left open and that bypassed the security put in place by its users. The browser has been compromised in a way that it now leaks the data it was designed to gather from […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-17 09:59:26 | Data Breach at Illinois College (lien direct) | An Illinois college is offering nearly free credit monitoring to over 1,700 current and former employees following a recent data breach. Officials at the College of DuPage confirmed on Monday that a cybersecurity incident had taken place recently. College president Brian Caputo said that personal and tax information belonging to 1,755 staff had been compromised. […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-16 10:49:23 | Princess Cruises reports 2019 data breach (lien direct) | Princess Cruises has reported a data breach where an unsanctioned third party gained unauthorised access to some employee email accounts that contained personal information regarding its employees, crew, and guests. The company identified suspicious activity on its network in late May 2019, and has identified that the data breach happened between 11 April and 23 […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-13 10:30:24 | Melbourne Polytechnic data breach (lien direct) | UPDATED A higher education institution in Victoria, Australia, has disclosed a data breach impacting the personal data of around 90,000 staff, students, and suppliers. In a security alert issued yesterday (March 11), Melbourne Polytechnic said Victoria Police had notified them that an individual who attended the campus in late 2018 had “obtained unauthorised access to […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-13 10:29:09 | (Déjà vu) Data Breach at Open Exchange (lien direct) | Open Exchange Rates has announced a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Open Exchange Rates provides an API that allows organizations to query real-time and historical exchange rates for over 200 world currencies. The service’s web site states that their API is used […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-12 11:23:27 | Cathay Pacific fined 9.4M for data breach (lien direct) | Aviation giant Cathay Pacific has been slapped with a US$650,000 fine by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for failing to protect customer personal data. According to a statement issued by the regulator, approximately 9.4 million customers had their personal data compromised. The breach encompasses, in varying quantities, details such as names, nationalities, passport […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-11 10:31:34 | (Déjà vu) User data exposed by Entercom (lien direct) | US radio giant Entercom reported a data breach that took place in August 2019 after an unauthorized party was able to access database backup files stored third-party cloud hosting services and containing Radio.com user credentials. Entercom’s national network is comprised of more than 235 radio stations broadcasting news, sports, and music across the country and […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-11 10:26:36 | Data breach action avoided by Hertfordshire University (lien direct) | The University of Hertfordshire has avoided an investigation by the ICO into its data-sharing practices after exposing student information. The security incident took place in November 2019, in which a bulk email promoting an art lecture also included an attachment containing the names and email addresses of approximately 2,000 students. Source: ZD Net | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-06 11:10:35 | Another data breach at T-Mobile (lien direct) | T-Mobile has begun notifying customers of a security breach that might affect an undetermined number of them, possibly revealing their names and addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rate plans and features, and billing information. Wireless carriers are a prime target for hackers because they hold large databases of customers and data that command a […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-06 11:06:31 | Virgin Media data breach (lien direct) | A Virgin Media database containing the personal details of 900,000 people was left unsecured and accessible online for 10 months, the company has admitted. The information was accessed “on at least one occasion” by an unknown user. The database, which was for marketing purposes, contained phone numbers, home and email addresses. Source: BBC | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-05 10:16:19 | Gaming company Zynga faces data breach lawsuit (lien direct) | A class-action lawsuit has been filed against gaming company Zynga Inc. over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 173 million users. The casual-gaming giant, which made its name with Farmville, warned mobile players of Words With Friends and Draw Something to update their passwords after the breach occurred in September 2019. Source: […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-03-03 10:27:57 | Loqbox data breach (lien direct) | Some customers of credit history-building tool Loqbox have had personal and financial data compromised after the firm was hit by a “sophisticated and complex” cyber attack. Loqbox is a tool which helps those with patchy credit histories build a credit score by buying a ‘digital voucher’ – essential a loan – and then ‘repaying’ […] | Data Breach Tool | ||
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2020-03-02 11:19:38 | Visser confirms data breach (lien direct) | A precision parts maker for space and defense contractors has confirmed a “cybersecurity incident,” which TechCrunch has learned was likely caused by ransomware. Visser Precision, a Denver, Colorado-based manufacturer, makes custom parts for a number of industries, including automotive and aeronautics. In a brief statement, the company confirmed it was “the recent target of […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-26 10:15:57 | Data breach at FCA (lien direct) | The Financial Conduct Authority has admitted it had revealed the confidential details of consumers on its website in a data breach last year.In a statement published today (February 25) the regulator said it had referred itself to the Information Commissioner's Office over the incident, which occurred in November 2019. In response to a Freedom of […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-26 10:12:23 | Data breach admitted by Samsung (lien direct) | Samsung has been breached, and a “small number” of users were able to access other people's personal data. The South Korean tech giant confirmed the breach, following user reports of unexplained Find My Mobile notifications. Find My Mobile is a Samsung app that comes pre-loaded with its Android devices and can only be disabled, not […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-24 11:14:08 | Trust \'violated\' by data breach, say Slickwraps (lien direct) | Slickwraps has revealed a data breach impacting over 850,000 user accounts, admitting its mistake in permitting customer records to become public. Slickwraps is an online store that offers skins for a variety of smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and laptops. Last week, the company said in a blog post that on February 21, Slickwraps discovered that […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-17 10:25:51 | Second Likud Party app voter data leak (lien direct) | A second and more serious data breach has been uncovered in the Elector firm's election software that Likud has been using in its Knesset campaign, as reported by the Calcalist business daily on Sunday. Both hacking incidents, which occurred within a week of one another, involved the leak of the entire registry of Israeli voters […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-06 10:43:25 | (Déjà vu) Personal Information of 654K Medicaid patients exposed in breach (lien direct) | Medicaid coordinated care organization (CCO) Health Share of Oregon today disclosed a data breach exposing the health and personal info of 654,362 individuals following the theft of a laptop owned by its transportation vendor GridWorks IC. The non-profit organization is Oregon’s largest Medicaid CCO and it serves the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) members in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-02-05 10:51:29 | 17,000 yachting industry professionals details exposed in data breach (lien direct) | Crew and Concierge is an international recruitment agency specialising in securing staff for ultra-high-net-worth clients' yachts operating around the world. The server, which was discovered during a Verdict investigation, consisted of over 90,000 files, all of which appeared to relate to individuals on Crew and Concierge's books. It was left exposed on a misconfigured unsecured […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-01-23 10:43:19 | UPS Store Subject to a Data Breach After Phishing Scam (lien direct) | In a data breach notification letter to customers, The UPS Store has disclosed that an unauthorized party successfully devised a phishing scheme to gain entry into the email accounts of numerous store locations. The breach exposed information contained within documents that customers emailed to stores for printing and related services, the San Diego-based subsidiary of UPS explained […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-01-16 10:02:01 | Customer account information in P&N Bank data breach (lien direct) | On Wednesday, a security researcher going under the Twitter handle @vrNicknack pinged Troy Hunt, the operator of the Have I Been Pwned? search engine, with a notice he had received from the bank. P&N Bank, a division of Police & Nurses Limited and operating in Western Australia, sent the notice which warned of an “information breach” occurring through its […] | Data Breach | ||
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2020-01-02 10:03:51 | Active Network, A School Software Vendor, Suffers Data Breach (lien direct) | Active Network's Blue Bear Software platform reported that unauthorized activity in its network earlier this year resulted in customer PII being exposed. The company reported the issue to the California Attorney General's office stating it recently became aware that between Oct. 1, 2019 and Nov. 13, 2019 there was illegal activity taking place on its Blue Bear […] | Data Breach | ||
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2019-12-05 10:58:16 | Security concerns going into 2020 (lien direct) | 2019 has been the year of the data breach with over 10 billion records estimated to have been leaked. The news headlines have been flooded with unfortunate attacks with enterprises on both sides of the Atlantic suffering. Whether it's ransomware, phishing or endpoint attacks, there's always something on the horizon waiting for its turn in the spotlight. Yet, with 2020 now on our doorstep, cyber security professionals are concerned with what new threat vectors may lie around the corner as we enter the next decade, especially with new legislation becoming enforced. | Data Breach Threat | ||
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2019-11-29 09:58:37 | Major data breach hits Palo Alto Networks (lien direct) | The cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has admitted that it suffered a data breach which resulted in the personal data of both past and current employees being leaked online. Business Insider, who broke the story, was first made aware of the breach by a former employee of the company that wished to remain anonymous. Source: Tech Radar | Data Breach | ||
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2019-11-29 09:54:57 | (Déjà vu) DiBella\'s data breach affecting 305,000 cards occurred because of Fin7 (lien direct) | Fifteen months after DiBella's Old Fashioned Submarines was notified by the FBI and credit card companies of a data breach the sandwich shop chain has issued a notice informing its customers of the incident. The company reported its stores in Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania may have had the information on as […] | Data Breach |
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