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JULY 21, 2019

The 2017 Equifax data hack affecting more than 143 million people worldwide will cost the company about $700 million. . 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. . The payment is part of a settlement with U.S.

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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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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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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. The hackers sent credit card data to a service controlled by them, noted the report. Newegg isn’t the only retailer to fall victim to a data breach. 14 through Sept.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After Equifax disclosed a devastating data breach, much of the attention focused on whether the company did everything it could in response. But the scary truth may be that this is the sort of incident that goes beyond a single company's ability to fix.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s unknown how long the pages were visible, and while it hasn’t been revealed how many people had their information exposed in the data breach, WSJ was able to see the records of more than 100 customers, including more than 50 with lockbox information, on just one day.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Intruders accessed names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s license numbers in what could be one of the largest data intrusions.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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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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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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AUGUST 27, 2018

T-Mobile’s Data Breached. Another day, another data breach. On the upside, T-Mobile said that the hackers didn’t steal financial information, social security numbers, or passwords in the hack. Consumer debt itself continues to creep up as a category, hitting $13.29

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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.

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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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AUGUST 13, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity reported the breach in May. Included in the exposed data are bank account numbers, statements, tax and mortgage records, receipts for wire transfers, personal social security numbers and pictures of drivers’ licenses.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

KrebsOnSecurity reported the breach in May. Included in the exposed data are bank account numbers, statements, tax and mortgage records, receipts for wire transfers, personal social security numbers and pictures of drivers’ licenses.

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JULY 17, 2019

The AMCA’s eight-month breach was first disclosed in June when news broke that 11.9 The AMCA has advised CPL that patients’ Social Security numbers were not involved in the incident. In response to the breach, the AMCA sent notification letters to approximately 34,500 CPL patients. Days later, 7.7

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MARCH 5, 2020

Telecom giant T-Mobile suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of employees and customers to unknown hackers, according to reports. “We The company didn’t reveal how many people were affected, but it said financial information like credit cards and Social Security numbers were not affected. “We

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Another perennial challenge the industry faces is the ever-looming threat of data breaches. One of the more recent incidents took place at the Desjardins Ontario Credit Union, revealing the names, social insurance numbers and transaction information of all 4.2 Deep Dive: Credit Unions Face Data Breach Challenges.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) confirmed on its website that it was the victim of a data breach in October — the Marketplace system used for agents and brokers was hacked. However, since this breach involves sensitive personal information, including partial SSN, there could be a risk of identity theft.”

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

NASA has suffered a data breach that exposed its employees’ Social Security numbers and other personal information. 18) by Assistant Administrator Bob Gibbs, the agency began looking into the breach of its servers on Oct. NASA is the latest government agency to be hit with a breach.

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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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