PYMNTS

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. Data breaches have not slowed during the pandemic. The company introduced new measures for privacy in response, letting users hide their phone number from everyone.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 19, 2016

Eddie Bauer acknowledged that a data breach compromised credit cards used in its 350 stores during the first six and a half months of 2016.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 30, 2024

The cost of data breaches has been on a steady incline for the past decade. However, evidence from IBM , a multinational tech firm, suggests that in the next 10 years, breaches could cost a lot more as we just experienced the highest year-on-year jump in cyber attacks (10 per cent).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

An Indian web system — used to mark attendance for government workers, which records names, photos and unique Aadhaar numbers — was easily compromised, and led to the access of private information for thousands of workers, reports showed. . The UIDAI, for its part, calls breaches “fake news,” and simply denies evidence of any weaknesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The Radisson Hotel Group suffered a data breach that impacted its loyalty and rewards program customers, reported ZDNet. ZDNet noted Radisson Hotel Group said no financial data or passwords were impacted by the breach.

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VISTA InfoSec

APRIL 5, 2024

The following are some of the consequences when data privacy and security are compromised: Productivity loss. Operational interruption happens when cybersecurity is breached. Data breaches don’t easily get overlooked. Tainted reputation. More than 80% of cyberattacks are attributed to human error.

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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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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. Conclusion The ramifications of this breach extend beyond immediate security concerns. As the situation unfolds, LAUSD and Snowflake Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2018

Sears, the department store operator, and Delta Air Lines, the airline operator, disclosed Wednesday (April 4) that payment information of some of their customers could have been exposed as part of a data breach at [24]7.ai, Sears noted its stores and internal systems were left out of the breach as well. ai, the software provider.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 19, 2024

However, this convenience comes with significant cyber risks that can compromise sensitive information and privacy. Malware and Ransomware Malware and ransomware are significant threats in the realm of video communication, with attackers leveraging these tools to compromise devices and networks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Chipotle Mexican Grill has been the victim of a cyberattack that compromised the credit card payment information for a small number of customers. “We have no indication of any breach of Chipotle’s databases or systems.” “We have no indication of any breach of Chipotle’s databases or systems.”

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 9, 2018

(The Paypers) 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018, according to the Breach Level Index from Gemalto.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

Twitter has issued an apology to its business clients acknowledging that personal information may have been compromised, the BBC reported. The tech company said there’s no evidence billing information was compromised. This is not the first time Twitter has been exposed to a data breach. We’re very sorry this happened.

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The Paypers

MARCH 6, 2018

(The Paypers) Nippon Ichi Software, a Japanese gaming developer, has revealed its American arm, NIS America , has suffered a data breach compromising financial data of online customers.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 3, 2024

Using the world’s largest proprietary risk and threat intelligence dataset, SecurityScorecard , the cybersecurity analyser, studied cybersecurity breaches across the UK’s 100 largest companies by market capitalisation, releasing a comprehensive analysis of the landscape of the FTSE 100 in the UK. None of them received a C rating or below.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

An invisible payment becomes a lot more visible when it’s compromised, making Marriott’s data breach a threat to one of the most important innovations in retail, which should scare everyone from Uber to Amazon.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2019

According to reports citing Microsoft, the company confirmed that a “limited” number of webmail users — including @msn.com and @hotmail.com — saw their accounts compromised by hackers. The breach happened between January 1, 2019, and March 28, 2019, according to reports. This is the latest breach to impact Microsoft this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

A former Amazon systems engineer working for Capital One is said to be the woman behind a breach that accessed the data of over 100 million people. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. Capital One revealed the massive data breach in a news release on July 29, 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

The suit claims that [24]7 waited over five months to tell the airline about the breach instead of immediately informing it. According to the news outlet, hackers changed the source code of the chatbot via compromised credentials. According to the suit, Delta is seeking reimbursement for all breach-related costs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2019

Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain, said that data from upwards of 460,000 customer accounts was compromised by hackers from April 23 to May 10, according to a report by CNBC. The retailer has asked customers to create new passwords that are harder to guess to lower the chances of getting hacked.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A recent data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers, reports said on Friday (Nov. Under FCC rules, telecommunication firms are required to promptly notify users when there is a breach. . The company found that in 2018, breaches cost a company $1.23 million on average for enterprises.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

The largest public data breach ever has been discovered, according to Gizmodo. The breach is just one data batch of at least six more, collected by someone trying to sell the stolen info, which amounts to almost 1 terabyte of stolen information. Users of HIBP can enter their email into a query and see if it’s been compromised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2020

Delivery startup Dunzo , India’s food and grocery delivery service backed Google , has suffered a data breach, The News Minute reported. The company’s databases were compromised including users’ contact details and email addresses. Dunzo has launched an internal investigation, the online news service reported.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 3, 2024

Weak or compromised passwords are often the weak link in an organization’s security chain, providing an easy entry point for cybercriminals. According to a Verizon report , over 80% of hacking-related breaches are due to compromised passwords.

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FICO

AUGUST 31, 2017

While data breaches and ransomware grab the headlines, we’re still seeing fraud growth due to ATM compromises in the US. The number of POS device and ATM compromises rose 21 percent in the same period. As criminals try to beat the system, we are continually adapting the predictive analytics we use to detect compromises.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

. “We are not aware of any data breach at this time,” an Instacart spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “We We take data protection and privacy very seriously. Outside of the Instacart platform, attackers may target individuals using phishing or credential stuffing techniques.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Multiple lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed in Philadelphia over a data breach at Wawa convenience stores, which affected 850 locations along the East Coast of the U.S., Wawa recently came forward with information that it found malware on its payment processing servers, and that it stopped the breach on Dec.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

million were compromised and exposed in a data breach of an agency that collects money for Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. It stated that the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), which is based in Elmsford, New York, informed Quest on May 14 about the eight-month breach.

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The Paypers

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

(The Paypers) Arby`s , a quick-service fast-food sandwich restaurant chain in the US, has suffered a data breach, compromising 355,000 customers’ credit cards.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

UniCredit , in a memo to its staff on Thursday, said that an internal investigation showed no evidence that a recent data breach at Capital One involved any of its own data, according to a report by Reuters. Additionally, there is no indication of an intrusion or data breach involving Infoblox causing any customer data to be exposed.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nordstrom has suffered a data breach that exposed employee names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries and more. The company spokesperson said customer data was not affected in the breach. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

If the sure-thing principle can be believed, then last week’s Marriott breach of 500 million customer records won’t have much of an impact on the consumer’s decision to book a hotel room at a Marriott property for their next trip. In December of 2013, Target was breached. What’s Real and What’s Relevant. Until they did.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In fact, nearly one-fourth of consumers within each generation assume their personal information is safe unless notified of a breach. In addition, 26 percent of consumers reported that their PII information had been compromised within the last month, and 34 percent experienced a compromise within the last year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Facebook is still legally on the hook for a September data breach that affected 30 million of their customers. The judge did, however dismiss breach-of-contract and breach-of-confidence claims. Facebook also argued that while logins were compromised, data of real value like card numbers remained protected and unharmed.

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