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Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The company is investigating into the incident with the help of leading forensic cybersecurity experts. ” reads the data breach notification email sent to the impacted customers. “Mint’s data collection policy is one of the most important ways in which we ensure the privacy and security of our subscribers.

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More New York SHIELD Act guidance

Data Protection Report

The container had a database backup file with over three million records of customer email addresses and account passwords, the latter of which were hashed and salted. The NYAG faulted Wegmans on five security areas: access controls, password management, asset management, logging and monitoring, and data collection and retention.

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T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed

Security Affairs

“Our Cybersecurity team recently discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile account. We immediately started an investigation, with assistance from leading cybersecurity forensics experts, to determine what happened and what information was involved.”

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The CNIL’s key priorities for upcoming dawn-raids in 2021

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In 2021, more than 50% of the CNIL’s dawn-raids will focus on: (i) websites cybersecurity, (ii) health data protection and (ii) cookies. W ebsites cybersecurity. The CNIL already underlined in 2020 that the cybersecurity of websites was a key issue.

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Wegmans Agrees to Pay $400,000 Penalty After Cloud Security Lapse

Hunton Privacy

The cloud storage container was publicly accessible from its creation in January 2018 and housed a database backup file of over three million records of customer email addresses and account passwords. In May 2021, Wegmans discovered a second misconfigured cloud storage container.

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Collection #1 Mega Breach Leaks 773 Million Email Accounts

Adam Levin

A gigantic trove of email addresses and passwords containing over 2 billion records has been discovered online. The breached data, dubbed “Collection #1” by cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt , is more than 87 gigabytes and contains roughly 773 million email address and 21 million unique passwords.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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