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Princess Cruises disclosed a potential data breach in a notice posted on its website. According to the notice, “Upon identifying this potential security issue, we engaged cybersecurity forensic experts and initiated an investigation to determine what happened, what data was affected, and who was impacted.”.

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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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JULY 21, 2019

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. . Among the biggest hacks in history, the impacted data included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The breach may result in a huge new dump of names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account, writes Jason Tan, CEO of Sift Science.

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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. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised.

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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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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. AMCA told LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information aren’t stored or maintained for LabCorp.

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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 company also revealed that the Social Security numbers of U.S. The website Orbitz.com was not impacted.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Remember how all those names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security and drivers’ license numbers and other information were stolen in September of 2017 – the information of some 143 million people – in what still stands as the one of the biggest data breaches of all time? Breach Confusion. Marriott Similarity?

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MAY 30, 2019

The financial impact of the data breach – which included bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, financial and tax records, and images of drivers’ licenses – is more than $5 million, according to the damages the lawsuit is seeking. The lawsuit contends that First American Financial Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Newegg, the electronics retailer, was reportedly the victim of a data breach that lasted a month. In an email to customers, Newegg Chief Executive Danny Lee said the company hasn’t determined the customer accounts that were impacted by the breach. Newegg isn’t the only retailer to fall victim to a data breach.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The named individuals and companies were charged with using stolen Social Security numbers, home addresses and birthdates of U.S. Social Security number as an identifier. Earlier this month, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted a group of 13 Russian nationals over their alleged role in the 2016 presidential election.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The more individuals leave a trail of information across websites, the more tempting the targets are for hackers to make off with everything from Social Security numbers to health care information. Your security question with your dog’s name? The more business is done online, the more fraud makes inroads. They ain’t cutting it.

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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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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. The marketing and data aggregation firm was the subject of a data breach in which customer information ended up on the internet for hackers or anyone else to view.

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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. 209,000 | Credit card numbers possibly gathered by Equifax hackers.

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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. businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Thinkful, an online education site for developers, has revealed that it has been hit with a data breach. “We It would not reveal when the breach took place or if Chegg was aware of the incident before the acquisition announcement. Ironically, Chegg suffered from its own data breach a year ago, which impacted 40 million users.

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MAY 8, 2018

Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company that was the subject of a massive data breach last fall, provided several congressional committees in the Senate and House with more information on the data compromised in the breach. million in the first quarter alone on expenses associated with the breach.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating a security breach at First American Financial Corporation that saw the exposure of upwards of 885 million financial records and personal files related to mortgages dating back to 2003. KrebsOnSecurity reported the breach in May.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The incident can and should be a turning point for the financial services industry that it needs to end its reliance on static personal identifiers like Social Security numbers and birth dates. It's not just Equifax that needs to worry.

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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 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. Large-scale security breaches are becoming all too common.”.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating a security breach at First American Financial Corporation that saw the exposure of upwards of 885 million financial records and personal files related to mortgages dating back to 2003. KrebsOnSecurity reported the breach in May.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The data exposed included driver’s license and Social Security numbers. . Add this one to the Time Warner and four million customer account breach, the healthcare system hacks and the innumerable merchants and millions of accounts tied to them (Target, anyone?), and, of course, Yahoo. Against that backdrop, ID.me

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MAY 4, 2018

FLEETCOR Technologies , a provider of commercial payment services, reported a data breach as the company announced on Thursday (May 3) a 17 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the first quarter of 2018, beating analyst expectations. The news of the breach comes as FLEETCOR revenue hit $609.7

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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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MAY 15, 2017

Any person shopping at both Brooks Brothers and Brooks Brothers Outlet stores between April 4, 2016, through March 1, 2017, may have been impacted by this breach. At this time, the company has not disclosed the number of accounts impacted.

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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 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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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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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Add some breaches across the pond to Equifax’s list of victims. Reuters reported Tuesday that the credit reporting firm has disclosed that more than 15 million United Kingdom records had been breached alongside the 145 million individuals compromised in the United States. million records that were reported as being breached, 14.5

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

No need to go over the numbers tied to the seismic breach because they keep changing, and may be changing even as you read this eBook. London-based financial institution Currencycloud’s CTO, Ed Addario, argued that regulation may in the offing, but emphasized firms must also strive for speed and transparency in dealing with breaches.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Social Security numbers, drivers’ license numbers and payment card data were not compromised. The company said that the investigation is ongoing, but so far approximately 150 million user accounts were affected by the breach, which is the largest of the year and one of the top five in history.

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