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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Facebook said that the breach was discovered in January 2019 as part of an internal security review.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. However, in a classic failure of operational security, many of these employees had their MegaPlan account messages automatically forwarded to their real ChronoPay email accounts.