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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 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. Then on Sept.

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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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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. It seems like this is a database with pretty much every U.S.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 6, 2018

The hackers behind that data breach at Marriott International may have been working for the government of China as part of an intelligence-gathering effort, reported Reuters. In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Last week , Equifax disclosed a data breach that could impact 143 million consumers. Here are the numbers: 143,000,000 | Consumers potentially impacted by the Equifax data breach. consumer accounts and certain dispute documents with personal identifying information may have been accessed. 182,000 | U.S.

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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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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. In the press release, Marriott also said the “upper limit” for guest records impacted in the breach was 383 million.

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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. Other information reportedly involved in the breach includes scheduling information and precise geolocation.

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JULY 29, 2020

In other news, Ledger , the crypto wallet maker, reported a data breach that resulted in the exposure of 1 million email addresses and other data, according to a blog post on the company’s website. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal addresses.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Printing company Vistaprint left an online database containing customer interactions unencrypted, according to a report. A security researcher named Oliver Hough discovered the unprotected database on Nov. After the report was published, the company quietly took down the database.

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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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JULY 29, 2020

In other news, Ledger , the crypto wallet maker, reported a data breach that resulted in the exposure of 1 million email addresses and other data, according to a blog post on the company’s website. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal 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. Jeffrey Meuler, an analyst at Robert W.

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MAY 20, 2016

Remember that LinkedIn data breach in 2012? The company announced this week that it’s recently been discovered that email and password information for more than 100 million LinkedIn members has been released as part of the data breach that was initially believed to have only impacted 6.5 million accounts.

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JUNE 18, 2024

As cyber threats evolve, safeguarding your organization’s data has become an utmost priority. Whether you’re a small business owner, a corporate leader, or an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialist, the consequences of a data breach are severe and far-reaching.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

We Heart It , the image sharing website, disclosed late last week that there was a potential cybersecurity breach that may have impacted more than 8 million accounts. 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.

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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.

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MAY 24, 2024

Understanding PCI DSS Developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), it is mandatory for all businesses to be PCI compliant to protect cardholders, companies, the Merchants and Service Providers they do business with from data breaches, fraud, and unauthorized access. of PCI DSS. 5 / 5 ( 1 vote )

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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.

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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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JULY 23, 2019

(The Paypers) As per an official announcement, Sweden-based digital currency exchange QuickBit has announced database issues resulted in a breach of sensitive user data.

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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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APRIL 21, 2016

(The Paypers) An Osterman Research’s database security industry report has revealed that of organizations say they lack the necessary tools to allow them to identify a data breach.

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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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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. Let’s try this a different way, if only to make a vital point with insincerity. Good for them! Well, not really. That is, indeed, sobering.

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MAY 23, 2017

million to settle state lawsuits over a 2013 hack of its database when the personal information of millions of customers was stolen, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Target Corp. agreed to pay $18.5

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JULY 16, 2019

The exposed database had daily updating logs of the back-end computer system, as well as some personal booking data including names, email addresses, phone numbers, room types, prices, the location of the hotel and the room and the dates and times of check-in and check-out. He said data on 300 hotel rooms was exposed.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

A breach of India’s SpiceJet, one of the country’s biggest independent airlines, exposed the data of more than a million passengers, per a report on Thursday (Jan. The breach was supposedly discovered via white-hat or ethical hacking , the security researcher said. The airline then took steps to secure the database. “At

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2019

The leak was the result of an internal database — the Elasticsearch system — being unwittingly exposed online, Wyze Co-founder Dongsheng Song said in a forum post first published on Dec. He noted that the Elasticsearch system speeds up queries, and though it was not a production database, it stored user data. . million members.

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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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MARCH 4, 2024

From large-scale data breaches to intricate schemes, fraudulent activities have left lasting marks on the financial landscape. Target Data Breach (2013) In the saga of payment processing fraud, few chapters loom as large as the Target data breach of 2013. Estimated financial losses exceeding $200 million.

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MARCH 5, 2020

The pilfered database reportedly appeared online in February with detail on the flaw in the site that allowed the breach to occur. One cybersecurity company’s chief technology officer told the newspaper that personal information of roughly 266,000 people was put on many websites for file sharing sites after the reported incident.

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