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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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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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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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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. Quest revealed the information in a securities filing. Patient records numbering around 11.9

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JANUARY 27, 2017

As if Yahoo didn’t have enough on its plate, the tech company is now facing a probe from the Securities and Exchange Commission as to whether or not it could have acted more promptly in response to two massive data breaches that left over a billion customers’ information compromised. America’s Data Breach Problem.

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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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JUNE 19, 2017

The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. 28, 2016, and April 14, 2017. Those who may have been affected will be notified.

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Exact Payments

JULY 1, 2024

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. At Exact Payments, we understand the magnitude of the responsibility of handling such sensitive data. We implement TLS 1.3,

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JULY 17, 2019

The AMCA’s eight-month breach was first disclosed in June when news broke that 11.9 million LabCorp customers were compromised. The AMCA has advised CPL that patients’ Social Security numbers were not involved in the incident. million Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group patient records were exposed.

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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 are not a secret.

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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 system is for workers in the state of Jharkhand, and it hasn’t been password protected since 2014.

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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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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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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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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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DECEMBER 4, 2017

million users may have been compromised at its TIO Networks unit, a company it acquired earlier in 2017. PayPal said it was looking into the vulnerabilities at TIO and discovered that users’ information may have been compromised. PayPal disclosed late last week that the personal information of around 1.6

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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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AUGUST 29, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. UniCredit , in a memo to its staff, said that an internal investigation showed no evidence that a recent data breach at Capital One involved any of its own data.

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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 retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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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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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. Overall, thanks to the rise in data breaches, merchants and FIs alike are dealing with a steep increase in fraud. Fraud is rampant and thriving.

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APRIL 5, 2019

AeroGrow explained that customers who bought something through its website between October 29, 2018 and March 4, 2019 had their credit card number, expiration date and card verification value (the security code) stolen by the malware. “We have not delayed notifying you at the request of law enforcement.

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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. consumers were impacted by each data element stolen.

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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. consumers and potentially compromised the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 people. On Thursday, Sept. The company also reported that 209,000 U.S.

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JULY 15, 2020

With data showing that 45 percent of all 2019 data breaches — and there were a lot of them — involved medical records theft, costing healthcare providers $429 per compromised patient record or nearly $18 billion, organizations can’t be confused about their value to cyberthieves. Medical Records = Dark Web Gold.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Failing to prevent a data breach is a surefire way to lose that trust, however. Credit unions possess vast troves of personal information such as credit card data and Social Security numbers that could devastate members if leaked. Data Breaches Within And Without. It also revealed that 60.8

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APRIL 11, 2017

But as Coupa is looking to make strategic acquisitions and strengthen its service offerings, the company hit a speed bump last month when the firm was hit by a data breach that exposed IRS W-2 payroll forms of its workers. “A Coupa had 652 employees as of the time the news of the data breach emerged.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Remember all that stolen Equifax data? 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?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This outage marks the latest headwind for Capital One after it disclosed a data breach in July. More than 100 million people were affected by the breach. . The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This outage marks the latest headwind for Capital One after it disclosed a data breach in July. More than 100 million people were affected by the breach. . The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised.

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MAY 31, 2018

However, under GDPR, it’s all about consent, so if consumers want to take back their data, organizations cannot retain or use it, even to protect them. As data breaches pile up, it’s more likely than not that any given individual’s sensitive information is floating around somewhere out there on the dark web.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Starting with one or two pieces of real information (a Social Security number is always one of them, sometimes paired with a real name), fraudsters take their time to slowly nurture a fake credit profile until it has a good enough record to make a big strike.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

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 In reference to the news affecting the U.K.,

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JULY 16, 2019

personal identification numbers with income, as well as healthcare and social security information. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first publicly known major data breach in Bulgaria,” he said. “It It is safe to say that the personal data of practically the whole Bulgarian adult population has been compromised.”.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today, data is as important as currency and should be safeguarded as such. In 2022, there were 1802 instances of data compromise in America which affected 422 million people. The payment service provider would have their own secure storage where the PII is stored. are stored in a secure location by the payment processor.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

An expression popularized during Watergate has managed to gain new relevance in the era of data breaches and executives that may try to hide them from the customers (and regulators) they serve. Stolen information included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.

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