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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Ecuador ’s government has rushed a draft privacy law to Congress after the nation was hit with a massive data breach impacting more than 20 million people. The researchers informed the Ecuadorean authorities, who closed the breach on Sept. Some of the listings included personal bank details. Then on Sept.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

FitMetrix , a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by MINDBODY , has suffered a data breach that could impact 113.5 Bob Diachenko, Hacken ’s director of cyber risk research, revealed the breach was caused by several servers that were left without a password. million users.

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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. It seems like this is a database with pretty much every U.S. Keller is also co-lead counsel in the recent Equifax data breach class action.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 27, 2024

In a recent development that has raised concerns across the education sector, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed a significant data breach involving student information. Data put on sale On June 18, Sp1d3r posted snippets of the data it stole on a hacking forum and began selling the data for $150,000.

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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. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5

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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 “A central Georgia Tech database was accessed by an unknown outside entity. However, it’s unknown how long the hacker(s) had access to the database.

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PYMNTS

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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MARCH 29, 2019

Close to 1 billion email accounts were leaked by a marketing company in what some researchers are calling the “biggest and most comprehensive email database” breach ever. The online database was created by a company called Verifications.io, which reportedly had no security measures in place. support team. Verifications.io

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JULY 29, 2020

The Philippines central bank is now considering creating its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), it said during a virtual meeting, having formed a committee to address the issue, Bloomberg reported. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal addresses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

In a reported leak of billions of user records in a smart home data breach, researchers have found that a database that belongs to Chinese firm Orvibo has been left open without a password for protection. According to a report from vpnMentor, “These would be sent to a user to reset either their password or their email address.”

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Following reports of its data breach last year, Marriott said on Friday (Jan. 4) that the total number of guest records involved in a Starwood database security incident was less than initially disclosed. million unencrypted passport numbers were “accessed by an unauthorized third party.”

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JULY 29, 2020

The Philippines central bank is now considering creating its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), it said during a virtual meeting, having formed a committee to address the issue, Bloomberg reported. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal addresses.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Messaging app Telegram said a data breach has exposed a database containing the personal information of millions of users, according to a Cointelgraph report. The database, which was exposed on a darknet forum, included users’ phone numbers and unique Telegram user IDs, according to the report.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A popular London-based massage startup has leaked its entire customer database — and could face steep fines due to violating GDPR (General Date Protection Regulation) rules. Anyone who discovered the information could easily access, edit or delete the database.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

American Express India enabled a database to be accessible to anyone for longer than five days in October, according to a report in The Next Web. According to the report , the Hacken cyber consultancy team’s director of cyber risk research, Bob Diachenko, discovered the unprotected database on Oct. 20, but potentially even longer.

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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.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Security experts have discovered an online, unprotected database that stores the personal data of 80 million American households. Ran Locar and Noam Rotem of vpnMentor discovered the database, adding that they believe it is the first time a breach of this size has included such detailed information.

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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. According to Equifax, the impacted information includes names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and, in some instances, drivers’ license numbers.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

In a blog post , the company announced news that the data breach may have happened several years ago, but that it was only recently alerted to the cyberattack. Since 2013, we have made significant upgrades and improvements to our systems, security protocols, password security and database.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Equifax , the credit scoring company embroiled in a 2017 data breach scandal, disclosed news on Thursday (March 1) that has identified 2.4 million consumers by referencing other information in proprietary company records that the hackers didn’t steal and by tapping the resources of an outside data provider. million U.S.

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Fintech News

MARCH 20, 2024

Sumsub, a global verification provider, is addressing the sharp increase in fraud networks in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with its enhanced Fraud Prevention Solution. The solution leverages a unique database for identifying and tracking fraudsters, offering a multi-layered approach to simplify decision-making and minimise false positives.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Monster.com was the victim of a data breach caused by an exposed web server, but failed to inform users about the incident. The server held the resumes of job applicants spanning 2014 and 2017, and included private information such as phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses and prior work experience.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Virgin Media announced Thursday (March 5) that the personal details of 900,000 customers had been accessed by a third party as the company left a marketing database unsecured for months, according to the Financial Times. The breach was one of the largest in the U.K. as of late due to the sheer volume of customers affected.

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Seon

JULY 19, 2023

There are well over four billion email addresses in use globally. Reverse email lookup is an invaluable tool for anyone who wishes to learn more about an individual based only on the person’s email address. SEON’s email search tool lets you gain personal information about someone using their email address.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, pressing concerns about privacy and fraud by cybercriminal networks must be addressed. Unlike passwords, which can be reset if compromised, biometric data is permanent. To address this, many systems now use encryption and secure storage techniques such as on-device storage.

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MAY 19, 2020

The Security Service of Ukraine is reportedly holding a hacker for allegedly selling a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, CoinDesk reported. Meanwhile, BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report.

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JULY 25, 2019

Researcher Jeremiah Fowler first discovered an accessible database that was eventually revealed to be owned by Jana Bank and included sensitive customer data including Voter ID, driver’s license, passport, PAN Card, transaction, email, username and other information, part of the bank’s Know Your Customer verification database.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Navionics , an Italian company that manufactures electronic navigational charts for boating, was the victim of customer data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records. The 19 gigabyte database contained more than 260,000 records, including customer names and email addresses.

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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. Beyond the fund, shares in companies such as Fortinet have risen astronomically: That company’s stock, for example, has jumped 66 percent since the Equifax breach.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

Social networking site VK.com is the latest victim in a string of targeted data breaches that have hit a host of other social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace. The stolen database contains full names, email addresses and passwords, as well as locations and phone numbers in some cases.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Last year the hotel company revealed that guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. Of the 500 million guests impacted, around 327 million had information compromised that ranged from names to passport numbers to email addresses and Starwood account information.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Chegg , a technology giant specializing in textbook rental, suffered a data breach affecting around 40 million customers. The breach, which happened in April but was only discovered a week ago, was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It’s kind of like being on the “worst dressed list” except that we’re talking about stolen data and, probably, lots of lawsuits. Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. Thousands of breaches. In data coming into the end of the year, Risk Based Security said hackers had accessed 7.9 Size and Scope.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Although financial information was not breached, the criminal was able to gain access to names, email addresses and scrambled passwords, and in some cases, other login and account data. In fact, six of the 16 databases breached last year were running the same back-end PostgreSQL database software.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

A database of nearly a quarter-million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok public profiles that was held by a now-shuttered company called Deep Social has made its way onto the Dark Web, The Next Web reported on Thursday (Aug. The news site attributed information about the data exposure to researcher Bob Diachenko of security firm Comparitech.

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