Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2022

Well, true to my opening dialogue, this was a monotopical weekly update (and yeah, apparently that's a word ). The Azure bill story got a huge amount of traction this week and there are many interesting angles to it that I didn't fully cover in the original blog post.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

A new supply chain attack made the headlines, threat actors compromised at least one update server of smartphone maker Gigaset to deliver malware. In 2018, it had 888 employees, revenue of 280 million Euro and sales activities in approximately 70 countries. Der Android-Update-Server von Gigaset wurde gehackt! Stay Tuned!

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

We also found 7 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 252,796,762 records known to be compromised, and 126 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

We’ve also found 6 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,588,849 Keenan & Associates Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Insurance USA Yes 1,509,616 AGC Group Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes 1.5 Data breached: 2 PB. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 13, 2018

Regardless, I did pump out a shorter update with a bunch of bits and pieces that popped up during the week. Firstly, the obnoxious behaviour that is Twitter thread hijacking (think of everything you hate about spam, just distilled down to 280 characters). Next week I'll be home and back to a quality audio setup.

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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

New Scientist found that ”more than 280 people from nearly 150 institutions did this, including researchers at universities and at companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo”. million users and “allowed access to 22 million status updates from over 150,000 users, alongside details such as age, gender and relationship status from 4.3

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Side note: Scott Helme and I talked about burnout in my weekly update from London , in part due to the experiences I had dealing with the above.) I have never, ever received so many emails, tweets, blog comments and every other form of communication you can imagine in such a short period of time. records in HIBP.

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