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AUGUST 9, 2023

Current PSNI Employees' Surnames and Locations Revealed Via Public Spreadsheet Police officers in Northern Ireland are sounding alarms over their personal safety after a data breach revealed the surnames and locations where they serve for nearly 10,000 police officers and staff.

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MAY 11, 2023

Also: Twitter Hacker Pleads Guilty, Seoul National University Hospital and Sysco In this week's data breach, the spotlight was on Dragos, a guilty plea from a Twitter hacker and cryptocurrency thief and North Korean hackers. Also, Sysco, a Ukrainian border truck queuing system and an update on Western Digital.

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JULY 25, 2023

Healthcare Sector Spends Most on Cleanup, IBM's Annual Breach Study Finds A new IBM study of data breaches found that if an organization's internal team first detects a breach and the organization has well-practiced incident response plans, that organization will be able to more quickly detect and respond, which will lead to lower breach cleanup costs. (..)

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JUNE 6, 2023

Report's Lead Author Shares Top Findings, Best Practices Pretexting incidents, a social engineering technique that manipulates victims into divulging information, have nearly doubled, representing 50% of all social engineering attacks, according to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed more than 16,312 security incidents. (..)

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JULY 15, 2022

Attempts to Accurately Track Breaches and Ransomware Hampered by Scarce Details Ransomware attacks and data breaches: One thing both have in common is the challenge of attempting to accurately understand their true scale and impact.

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MAY 11, 2023

Beyond $25M in Estimated Cleanup Costs, The Game Remains Afoot for Victim Details In the annals of attempting to downplay the impact of a data breach, here's a new one: British outsourcing giant Capita says the hackers who hit it - steling data pertaining to customers, suppliers and employees - accessed "less than 0.1%

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JANUARY 25, 2023

1,802 Breach Notifications Issued in 2022; Over 440 Million Individuals Affected Data breaches in 2022 hit near-record levels as U.S. organizations issued 1,802 data breach notifications and more than 400 million individuals were affected.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Organizations are wrestling with a pressing concern: the speed at which they respond to and contain data breaches falls short of the escalating security threats they face. According to the Cost of a Data Breach 2023 Report by IBM, the average cost of a data breach reached a record high of USD 4.45

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MAY 22, 2023

Several Proposed Class Actions Filed Against NationsBenefits, Aetna, Others Proposed class action lawsuits are piling up over hackers' use of a vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere secure file transfer and a resulting data breach affecting 3 million individuals.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global suffered a data breach after an unauthorized party accessed files from certain of its systems. Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global disclosed a data breach. ” concludes the letter.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The nonprofit organization Freecycle Network (Freecycle.org) confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7 million users. The security breach was discovered on August 30, exposed data includes usernames, User IDs, email addresses and passwords. The company has not shared details about the attack.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Group Claims GGSN Misconfiguration Led to 100 Million User Accounts T-Mobile USA says it is investigating a claim that as many as 100 million accounts may have been compromised in a data breach. The person who claims responsibility for the alleged breach says T-Mobile misconfigured a Gateway GPRS Support Node.

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JULY 25, 2022

Hackers Stole Sensitive Data for 57 Million Uber Passengers and Drivers Ride-sharing service Uber has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve a criminal investigation into its massive 2016 data breach.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Names, Addresses, Emails and Telephone Numbers Exposed But Money Is Safe Customers of app-based bank Revolut should be on guard for phishing attempts after a data breach exposed personal details such as names, emails and telephone numbers.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of data breach trends. Also featured: yet another Microsoft Exchange vulnerability and misconceptions about cybercrime groups.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Australia Regulator Says Such Breaches Are Likely Underreported Australia's data regulator says organizations hit by ransomware may be underreporting data breaches because they haven't thoroughly figured out if data was taken.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Reports: Platform's Entire Source Code Compromised in 125GB Leak Amazon-owned video streaming service Twitch, which focuses on video games and e-sports broadcasts, reportedly suffered a massive data breach, which the company vaguely confirmed via Twitter.

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JULY 28, 2022

Data breaches in the healthcare sector cost about $10.1 million - more than double the average cost of breaches across other industries - once again ranking the sector as having the most expensive data breaches, says Limor Kessem, principal consultant of cyber crisis management at IBM Security.

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JULY 19, 2021

Ransomware Attacks, Vendor Incidents Continue to Dominate Ransomware attacks and breaches of vendors continue to account for the biggest health data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this year.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hong Kong Privacy Office Says It Is 'Disappointed' With Breach Notification Upscale Asian hotelier Shangri-La Group has copped to a data breach incident that may affect hundreds of thousands of guests. The hotel detected unauthorized access to its guest database in July but didn't notify guests or regulators until September.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Current and Former Customers' Contact Details Exposed, But No Financial Information Australian telecommunications giant Optus is warning that current and former customers' personal details were exposed, including some driver's license and passport details, but no passwords or financial details, after it suffered a major data breach.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. The GMP reported that the impacted company provides its services to various UK organizations, including Greater Manchester Police.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Ransomware, Phishing Incidents, Vendor Hacks Prevail Hacking incidents, including ransomware and phishing attacks, as well as security incidents involving vendors dominated the federal tally of major health data breaches in 2020.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Associated Press (AP) has disclosed a data breach affecting the legacy AP Stylebook website that led to phishing attacks against impacted customers, BleepingComputer reports.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

44 Million Users Possibly Affected; Data Appears on Underground Forums The Russian digital streaming platform Start acknowledged a data breach but downplayed its severity and said the vulnerability has been fixed.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals. “As a result, we believe the risk to individuals whose personal data was involved in this event is low.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

More People Affected by Breaches Than Total US Population The federal tally of health data breaches reached a new milestone this week: Since its inception in September 2009, more than 5,000 major incidents have been posted to the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA breach "wall of shame."

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Firm Did Not Have Necessary Measures to Protect PII, Plaintiffs Allege Fintech company Block faces a putative class action demanding damages for customers affected by a 2021 data breach that affected 8.2 The company, formerly known as Square and co-founded by former-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, disclosed the breach in April.

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MAY 27, 2021

Ransomware Attacks Continue to Plague the Sector Another big wave of large breaches stemming from hacking incidents, including ransomware attacks, has flooded the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Exposed Data Includes Login Credentials, Security Questions Neiman Marcus Group says it is notifying 4.6 million of its online customers who are affected by a data breach that occurred in May 2020. The data includes personally identifiable data, payment and gift cards, online account credentials and security questions.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Federal Tally Underscores Biggest Hacking Threats, Risks From Vendors Some 60 breaches affecting about 2.5 million individuals were added in July to the federal tally of major health data breaches.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Personal Details on 727,000 Accounts in 14 Countries Leaked Delivery Hero, the online food delivery service, has confirmed a data breach of its Foodora brand. Breached information includes personal details for 727,000 accounts - names, addresses, phone numbers, precise location data and hashed passwords - in 14 countries.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Million Customers' Private Details Sold by 'Malicious' Insider for 26 Months Canada's Desjardins Group has reached an out-of-court settlement to resolve a data breach class action lawsuit. million active customers.

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JULY 20, 2022

Vikas Malhotra, India Country Manager at LastPass, on Breaches, Password Management Compromised logon credentials are the root cause of most data breaches, especially because users tend to reuse passwords, says Vikas Malhotra. Passwords are not going anywhere, he says.

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JULY 6, 2021

based British Airways have each agreed to settle class action lawsuits filed in the wake of two massive data breaches. Class Actions Filed Against Each Company After Hacking Incidents U.S.-based based pharmacy and supermarket chain Kroger and U.K.-based

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