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Ransomware Groups' Data Leak Blogs Lie: Stop Trusting Them

Data Breach Today

Don't Let the Quest for Data Lead You to Amplify What Criminals Might Be Claiming For the love of humanity, please stop playing into ransomware groups' hands by treating their data leak blogs as reliable sources of information and then using them to build lists of who's amassed the most victims.

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Chambers 2024 Global Practice Guides for Data Protection & Privacy and Cybersecurity

Data Matters

The newest editions of the Chambers Global Practice Guides have been published and, once again, Sidley lawyers have contributed to two guides: Data Protection & Privacy 2024 and Cybersecurity 2024.

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

We're here at "alleged" for two very simple reasons: one is that AT&T is saying "the data didn't come from us", and the other is that I have no way of proving otherwise. But I have proven, with sufficient confidence, that the data is real and the impact is significant. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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LiveJournal Blog Platform Credential Leak: What Happened?

Data Breach Today

Millions of Older Credentials Apparently Used in Credential-Stuffing Attacks The Russian blogging platform LiveJournal confirmed this week that it suffered several brute-force attacks in 2011 and 2012. But it insists that the 26 million usernames and passwords that are now available for sale on darknet forums came from other sources.

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Maruti Suzuki Investor Data Exposed

Data Breach Today

Researcher Discovered Misconfigured Microsoft Azure Blog Cloud Server A misconfigured Microsoft Azure Blob cloud storage server used by Maruti Suzuki, an automobile manufacturer in India, exposed investors' personal and financial data online, according to a security researcher.

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A Closer Look at the Snatch Data Ransom Group

Krebs on Security

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity revealed that the darknet website for the Snatch ransomware group was leaking data about its users and the crime gang’s internal operations. That same email address was assigned to the user “Semen-7907” on the now defunct gaming website tunngle.net , which suffered a data breach in 2020.

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Our Blog is Moving!

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

To our valued readers of the Chronicle of Data Protection blog: we are changing how we deliver our content. As of today, we have moved the blog to a new technology platform: Hogan Lovells Engage. For starters, Chronicle of Data Protection content will be made publicly available, at our new location on Hogan Lovells Engage.

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