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DECEMBER 31, 2018

So far this year (and there’s still one more day), Verizon reported that there have been 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that 68 percent of those breaches took months for the breached companies to discover. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised.

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. The company said that a third party breached and used the phone number of a BlockFi staffer to get into a part of the company’s encrypted back-office system without permission.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The breach may result in a huge new dump of names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account, writes Jason Tan, CEO of Sift Science.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Princess Cruises disclosed a potential data breach in a notice posted on its website. According to the notice, “Upon identifying this potential security issue, we engaged cybersecurity forensic experts and initiated an investigation to determine what happened, what data was affected, and who was impacted.”.

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JULY 21, 2019

The credit reporting company is close to a deal to settle data breach probes, The Wall Street Journal reported July 19, citing people familiar with the matter. . Among the biggest hacks in history, the impacted data included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Newegg, the electronics retailer, was reportedly the victim of a data breach that lasted a month. In an email to customers, Newegg Chief Executive Danny Lee said the company hasn’t determined the customer accounts that were impacted by the breach. Newegg isn’t the only retailer to fall victim to a data breach.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company announced that the Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and the chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, will both retire. These moves come after the company disclosed a major data breach in which 143 million U.S.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Representative Katie Porter, a Democrat from California, asked the CEO to share his Social Security Number, birth date, and address at the public hearing during an exchange about security and privacy concerns. There will surely be another massive data breach at some point,” Rossman said.

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JULY 9, 2018

After Macy’s cyber tools detected suspicious logins on June 11, the retailer is warning customers about a data breach. However, Macy’s said the accounts don’t include Social Security numbers or CVV numbers. The exposed information may have included names, phone numbers, email addresses and billing addresses.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Equifax, the credit scoring company that suffered a data breach that impacted as many as 143 million Americans, is blaming a vendor software flaw in its online databases. My understanding is the breach was perpetuated via the Apache STRUTS flaw,” Meuler told The Post. Large-scale security breaches are becoming all too common.”.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

A report by the House Oversight Committee has found that Equifax ’s massive data breach could have been easily prevented if its security practices and policies were up to par. Last year, the credit monitoring firm suffered a breach that impacted the personal data of more than 143 million consumers.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

Gas station and convenience store chain Wawa said it discovered a data breach in which thousands of customers’ debit and credit card information was stolen, according to a report by CNBC. Wawa said its team stopped the breach on Dec. Wawa said its team stopped the breach on Dec. We promptly reported this to authorities.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Last week , Equifax disclosed a data breach that could impact 143 million consumers. The information includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers, though the company also reported U.S. 209,000 | Credit card numbers possibly gathered by Equifax hackers.

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JUNE 5, 2019

million customers may have been impacted by the data breach that affected Quest Diagnostics customers. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, LabCorp. million potentially impacted customers include first and last name, date of birth, address, phone, date of service, provider and balance information.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The more individuals leave a trail of information across websites, the more tempting the targets are for hackers to make off with everything from Social Security numbers to health care information. Your security question with your dog’s name? IoT is a paradgym that we are just beginning to addressed,” said Grassi.

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JUNE 29, 2018

The first class action lawsuit against Exactis has been filed in response to the company’s massive data breach that exposed the private information of more than 200 million U.S. The marketing and data aggregation firm was the subject of a data breach in which customer information ended up on the internet for hackers or anyone else to view.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Following a data breach at learning platform Lynda in 2016, two hackers were indicted in Florida this month on charges of extortion and hacking. According to the reports, the allegations are similar to those of a reported data breach at Uber. The two individuals allegedly were able to get a hold of thousands of user accounts.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

No need to go over the numbers tied to the seismic breach because they keep changing, and may be changing even as you read this eBook. London-based financial institution Currencycloud’s CTO, Ed Addario, argued that regulation may in the offing, but emphasized firms must also strive for speed and transparency in dealing with breaches.

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MAY 22, 2020

Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio have warned tens of thousands of residents who have applied online for unemployment benefits due to COVID-19 of possible data breaches that could have exposed names, addresses and Social Security numbers.

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VISTA InfoSec

JULY 5, 2023

Adherence to these regulations is paramount for safeguarding sensitive patient information from data breaches and cyber attacks. From March 2021 to March 2022, the average cost of a data breach in healthcare was over $10 million, up from $9.23 Thus, protecting EHRs is crucial to avoid data breaches from hackers. million people.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Intruders accessed names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s license numbers in what could be one of the largest data intrusions.

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MAY 15, 2017

Any person shopping at both Brooks Brothers and Brooks Brothers Outlet stores between April 4, 2016, through March 1, 2017, may have been impacted by this breach. At this time, the company has not disclosed the number of accounts impacted.

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MAY 8, 2018

Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company that was the subject of a massive data breach last fall, provided several congressional committees in the Senate and House with more information on the data compromised in the breach. million in the first quarter alone on expenses associated with the breach.

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MARCH 30, 2018

The stolen data includes account usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the MyFitnessPal mobile app and website. Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers and payment card data were not compromised. The app and website is part of the connected fitness division, which accounted for 1.8

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The named individuals and companies were charged with using stolen Social Security numbers, home addresses and birthdates of U.S. Social Security number as an identifier. citizens to open bank accounts. Those accounts were then used to pay for political advertising, and to interfere with U.S.

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APRIL 3, 2019

The Georgia Institute of Technology confirmed that it suffered a data breach that has exposed the personal information of 1.3 The university’s information security officials are working to determine the extent of the breach, as well as identify those who may have been affected by it.

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MAY 27, 2020

Bank of America notified principal owners of a potential data breach after the bank uploaded the loan applications of some customers to a “limited access, controlled” Small Business Administration (SBA) test application platform, according to a letter to customers made public by the California attorney general’s office.

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MAY 10, 2019

prosecutors have charged a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the 2015 data breach at health insurance company Anthem , which led to the theft of 78.8 million records. businesses. businesses.

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EBizCharge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Now more than ever, businesses are focusing on preventing data breaches and implementing response protocols to mitigate breaches if they occur. According to the 2023 IBM Data Breach Report , the global average cost of data breaches was $4.45 What are data breaches?

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Warby Parker contacted law enforcement when it found out about the breach. One of the biggest problems with these types of data breaches is that many users repeat passwords over many sites, and when information is stolen from one company, it can often be used by another. Warby Parker said that is what happened with this breach.

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JULY 4, 2018

Following the massive data breach at Equifax last year, the cybersecurity sector has flourished – and so have some of the investments that track the industry. The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported. The fund includes companies such as Juniper Networks , Cisco and Symantec.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Comcast Xfinity, the cable company, exposed partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of millions of customers, reported BuzzFeed News. Citing Ryan Stevenson , a security researcher who found the security vulnerabilities, BuzzFeed reported that the data of more than 26.5 million customers was exposed.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) confirmed on its website that it was the victim of a data breach in October — the Marketplace system used for agents and brokers was hacked. HealthCare.gov is safe to use, and the agent and broker system is now available again with additional security measures in place.

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JULY 11, 2018

Another retailer has been hit with a data breach. The data breach impacted one-half of one-percent of customers who were registered on Macys.com or Bloomingdales.com, spokeswoman Blair Rosenberg said Tuesday (July 10), according to Bloomberg. “We Macy’s is just the latest retailer to be hit with a data breach.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

The intruder or intruders did not, T-Mobile stated, have access to “names on the account, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax ID, passwords, or PINs.”. “We T-Mobile previously suffered a data breach in March.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was a former employee of Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. “We About five years ago, the company started moving its data to the cloud.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

A PayPal spokesman told the paper that the data that may have been impacted included names, addresses, bank account details, Social Security numbers and login information. The potential data hack at TIO comes a few months after Equifax announced a massive data breach that impacted 145.5

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