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JULY 21, 2019

The 2017 Equifax data hack affecting more than 143 million people worldwide will cost the company about $700 million. . 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. . The payment is part of a settlement with U.S.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Home improvement startup Houzz revealed that it suffered a data breach. The company said in a FAQ on its website that the breach was discovered in late December 2018, and that “a file containing some of our user data was obtained by an unauthorized third party.”.

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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. Meanwhile, 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.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Newegg, the electronics retailer, was reportedly the victim of a data breach that lasted a month. The hackers sent credit card data to a service controlled by them, noted the report. Newegg isn’t the only retailer to fall victim to a data breach. 14 through Sept.

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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. Security researcher Vinny Troia discovered the breach earlier this month. consumers and 110 million business contacts.

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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. 182,000 | U.S.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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JANUARY 10, 2018

Wag Labs is in the doghouse with its customers after accidentally exposing web pages that revealed such information as client addresses and lockbox codes. The exposed information didn’t include financial data or social security numbers. Owners are able to request a walker immediately or schedule future walks.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Another day, another (possible) data breach: Adidas revealed that it has come under attack from cybercriminals looking to steal personal information. The breach could potentially affect millions of customers, who were notified on Thursday (June 28) about the incident on the Adidas U.S.

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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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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

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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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JULY 17, 2019

Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). CPL learned of the breach involving the AMCA payment website after being contacted by the company. Days later, 7.7 million LabCorp customers were compromised.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Corporate credit card data was not exposed in the massive Capital One data breach that came to light earlier this week, according to Business Travel News reports. While customers of Capital One’s commercial banking division were not affected, reports noted that small business customers were affected by the breach.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

A web page to which some customers were pointed states that the stolen data “may have included phone number, number of lines subscribed to on your account and, in some cases, call-related information collected as part of the normal operation of your wireless service.”. T-Mobile previously suffered a data breach in March.

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JULY 30, 2019

The documents said Thompson accessed the data through a “misconfiguration” of a firewall on a web application. . Capital One revealed the massive data breach in a news release on July 29, 2019.

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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. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, LabCorp. The billing vendor said the data of the 7.7

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

1, the first-class action lawsuit alleging data breaches under the CCPA was filed on Feb 5. The complaint accuses Salesforce of allowing the site to be infected with malware, which is the prime suspect for the data breach. Security Boulevard research shows that as of Dec.

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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

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JANUARY 2, 2019

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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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. However, since this breach involves sensitive personal information, including partial SSN, there could be a risk of identity theft.”

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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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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 company also reported that 209,000 U.S. consumers.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. Capital One stressed that credit card account numbers and login credentials were not compromised, while more than 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not impacted.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

1, the first-class action lawsuit alleging data breaches under the CCPA was filed on Feb 5. The complaint accuses Salesforce of allowing the site to be infected with malware, which is the prime suspect for the data breach. Security Boulevard research shows that as of Dec.

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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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JUNE 30, 2019

“Ying thought of his own financial gain before the millions of people exposed in this data breach even knew they were victims,” said U.S. The charges stem from the massive data breach Equifax was hit by in 2017, which compromised the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses of more than 145 million Americans.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. Thompson did not get names and addresses of customers, however. . Additionally, there is no indication of an intrusion or data breach involving Infoblox causing any customer data to be exposed.”.

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