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. In his blog , Hunt talked about how he discovered the breach.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s unclear where or how customer account credentials were obtained. Impacted customers were notified of the incident nearly a month after it was discovered.

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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. A file falling into the wrong hands or credentials being revealed to unauthorized personnel could spell lost productivity and revenue. Tainted reputation.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Marriott International experienced a massive data breach in an “incident” that involved a property system. The hotel firm said in a notice that it “at the end of February 2020, the company identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed” with the sign-in credentials of two franchise property staffers.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The breach may have occurred through a technique called "credential stuffing," in which hackers who have stolen passwords for other websites try them out on an online banking site.

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Payments Source

JULY 9, 2018

All service providers, even those with a strong security posture, are only as secure as the Home Depots, LinkedIns and Equifaxes of the world, argues George Avetisov, chief executive of HYPR.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

This is not the first time Twitter has been exposed to a data breach. In 2016, nearly 33 million Twitter users’ personal data was compromised and offered for sale on the dark web, LeakedSource.com, the subscription-based breach notification service, reported. These credentials, however, are real and valid.

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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.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 3, 2024

According to a Verizon report , over 80% of hacking-related breaches are due to compromised passwords. Credential stuffing , a form of cyberattack where attackers use stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts, highlights the need for strong password policies. Here are the essential components: 1.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Visa announced today the commercial expansion of its Visa Token Service for “credential-on-file token requestors.” Network tokens offer merchants an appealing solution to boosting the security of transactions while also helping merchants manage the account credentialing that is now the reality of multichannel retail payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

Reports of data breaches and cyberattacks are serious, but what happens when those claims are untrue? According to Krebs on Security , last week, several identity theft protection companies incorrectly named Dropbox as the source of a data breach that compromised nearly 73 million usernames and passwords.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

” Yahoo is apparently on the verge of reporting a massive data breach of its service — a giant hack that has exposed the data behind hundreds of millions of user accounts. ” Peace was, by his own admission, selling credentials of 200 million Yahoo users from 2012 on the dark web for just over $1,800.

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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. 5 / 5 ( 1 vote )

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Thinkful, an online education site for developers, has revealed that it has been hit with a data breach. “We As soon as we discovered this unauthorized access, we promptly changed the credentials, took additional steps to enhance the security measures we have in place, and initiated a full investigation.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

It was reported that the login credentials of more than 32 million Twitter users were compromised. According to LeakedSource, which indexes hacked credentials from data breaches, the credentials are being traded on the dark web for about 10 bitcoin a pop, or a little under $6,000.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

There is a bit of a twist in this often-told tale of breached consumer data: Chipotle maintains that the company itself has not been breached. She further noted that the firm is pretty sure credential stuffing is the root cause in this case. It could easily be credential stuffing. So, what’s going on? Is Chipotle?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2019

In a statement to reporters, Microsoft said: “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access.”. It also appears the bad guys didn’t access login credentials including passwords.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

DoorDash has revealed that it was the victim of a data breach in May. We were subsequently able to determine that an unauthorized third party accessed some DoorDash user data on May 4, 2019. It’s unknown why it took DoorDash five months to detect the breach, which impacted around 4.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We must give credit to the criminals who engineered the recently disclosed data breach that could end up impacting some 500 million guests of Marriott International. Breach Aftermath. In case their memory is fuzzy, though, they can remember this: Hackers gained access to the credentials of almost every adult in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Timehop , the mobile app that gathers photos from social media, disclosed on Monday (July 9) that it was the subject of a data breach. In a blog post, the company said that on July 4 it experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of its customers’ data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Businesses have good reason to be concerned about data breaches. Cybercriminals’ accomplishments come at the expense of targeted businesses, with a recent study finding that individual data breaches cost firms around the globe an average of $3.92 million in 2019 — a 1.5 percent increase from 2018. Fighting the Phishers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At least 12 Capital One cybersecurity employees have exited since the breach due to security issues left hanging by Johnson and other executives, sources told the WSJ. Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach.

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The Paypers

APRIL 28, 2016

(The Paypers) A survey of more than 300 professionals worldwide found that 22% of respondents whose company had experienced a data breach said the breach was due to compromised credentials.

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Payments Source

MAY 22, 2019

Some technology upgrade can leave databases open to the public internet, creating more risk for payment credential exposure and other risks, contends Ameya Talwalkar, co-founder and chief product officer of Cequence Security.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

This not only helps FIs communicate with each other, but it also makes it easier to comply with transparency regulations while providing customers with more control over their data. The most popular technique, credential abuse, involves fraudsters using compromised passwords and other login information to gain access to sensitive systems.

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FICO

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This, in the public domain, is the single largest cyber-breach in history, affecting an estimated 500 million Yahoo users and potentially compromising their personal, demographic, contact and security information. Getting ready for future breaches is critical. But when I made my predicton, this crime had already happened. Why is that?

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Widespread data breaches have sparked a rise in account-takeover fraud using stolen consumer credentials, prompting merchants to crack down on suspicious purchases. But too many legitimate customers are getting caught in the process.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Instead, Instacart said hackers used credential stuffing, a practice in which usernames and passwords stolen from other sites are used to hack into other accounts. “It Sellers were offering data from what could have been 278,531 accounts, although some may have been duplicates or fake. Instacart denied it happened. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

billion consumer accounts fell victim to data breaches during the first half of 2019 — to the tune of $4 million in lost revenue per breach. More than 90 percent of Americans have fallen victim to online scams, data breaches, identity theft or other forms of fraud, though certain varieties are more common than others.

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Payments Source

JULY 20, 2017

Because of the opaque nature of internet retailing and widely publicized data breaches, security concerns remain a pervasive gating factor to digital commerce. Key to countering this is providing consumers with the tools to monitor and control where their payment credentials are stored online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

The Department of Justice bringing charges against two spies in Russia and two hackers who allegedly took part in the massive data breach that rocked Yahoo recently has now shed light on exactly how these breaches took place. This past fall, Yahoo disclosed a massive breach of user accounts that impacted 500 million people.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 10, 2018

Aadhaar-related data breaches can potentially derail positive macro-outcomes of India’s National ID program in terms of democratizing access to the digital economy. Read our latest blog to learn how tokenization can enable institutions safeguard Aadhaar credentials as well as citizen trust in the program.

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Fintech News

JANUARY 17, 2024

7 trends that will shape the fraud and identity landscape in 2024 by LexisNexis Risk Solutions By combining real personal data leaked from breaches with AI-fabricated information, fraudsters can rapidly generate fake but credible identities. Digital mule networks exploit this, testing stolen credentials across various banks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With a wealth of stolen credentials to pick from in the wake of several data breaches that comprised the identities of millions, fraudsters have more resources than ever. Take Marriott , which is still dealing with the fallout of a breach that left the data of 500 million rewards customers exposed.

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