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Home Depot Settles 2014 Breach Lawsuit for $17.5 Million

Data Breach Today

million settlement in a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2014 data breach that compromised the payment card data of 40 million of the retailer's customers. Home Supply Retailer Must Also Implement Several Cybersecurity Protocols The Home Depot reached a $17.5

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Authorities Arrest Suspect in 2014 UPMC Data Breach

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Indictment Describes Hacking of HR Database at Medical Center in Pittsburgh Authorities have arrested a suspect accused of hacking the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's human resources database in 2014 and stealing personally identifiable information from 65,000 employees, which was then used for tax fraud.

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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

net prior to our phone call in 2014. In February 2014, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Usatyuk’s father Peter Usatyuk , an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Ill. in , quezstresser[.]com com , betabooter[.]com com , databooter[.]com com , instabooter[.]com com , polystress[.]com

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SEC Fines Yahoo $35 Million Over 2014 Breach

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Securities and Exchange Commission to settle accusations that the search giant failed to promptly notify investors about a December 2014 data breach. Regulator Accuses Yahoo - Now 'Altaba' - Of Taking Too Long To Notify Investors Yahoo, now known as Altaba, has agreed to a $35 million civil fine with the U.S.

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Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach

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million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers across the US and Canada. Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chinese Hackers Stole an NSA Windows Exploit in 2014

Schneier on Security

2014-2015: China’s hacking team code-named APT31, aka Zirconium, developed Jian by, one way or another, cloning EpMe. This allows someone with a foothold on a machine to commandeer the whole box. Early 2017: The Equation Group’s tools were teased and then leaked online by a team calling itself the Shadow Brokers.

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Unc0ver is the first jailbreak that works on all recent iOS versions since 2014

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will be a big milestone for jailbreaking because it is the first zero-day jailbreak released since iOS 8 that was released in September 2014. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pwn20wnd states that #unc0ver v5.0.0

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