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MAY 4, 2023

Nearly a Dozen More Breaches Affecting 4.3 Million Recently Reported The tally of individuals whose sensitive information was compromised by the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnyWhere secure file transfer software is growing by millions as more entities report heath data breaches to regulators.

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MAY 8, 2023

NextGen's Breach Follows Claims by BlackCat in an Alleged Earlier Incident Cloud-based electronic health records vendor NextGen Healthcare is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a data compromise involving stolen credentials.

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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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JANUARY 9, 2023

Update Would Be First Revision of Rules for Telecommunications Sector Since 2007 Modernizing data breach notification requirements for the telecommunications sector is the focus of a newly announced Federal Communications Commission proceeding.

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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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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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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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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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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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MARCH 26, 2021

So Are We Supposed to Keep This Data Breach Notification Just Between Us Friends? What happens when an e-commerce retailer sends customers a data breach notification email with a subject line that reads "strictly private and confidential"? Others report being none the wiser as to what risks they now face.

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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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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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JANUARY 19, 2021

Open-Source Development Project Asking Members to Reset Passwords OpenWRT, an open-source project that develops operating systems, firmware and other software for connected and embedded devices, is investigating a data breach after a hacker gained access to an administrator account and apparently was able to access usernames and email addresses for (..)

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MARCH 21, 2023

A data breach occurs when an unauthorized party gains access to private information. Targeted data includes personally identifiable information (PII) including names, birthdates, financial data, and identification numbers.

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MARCH 17, 2022

22 Million Accounts Breached Owing to Multiple Security Failures, Regulator Says The current and former owners of CafePress, a site for selling customizable merchandise, have agreed to a draft Federal Trade Commission settlement tied to multiple security shortcomings that failed to prevent or detect a 2019 data breach that exposed 22 million users' (..)

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AUGUST 19, 2021

More Major Incidents Added to the 'Wall of Shame' Several ransomware incidents have been added to the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks, with no signs of these attacks abating.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Employee and Customer Information Compromised in January Attack; ICO Investigating British clothing and accessories retailer Fat Face says it detected a data breach in January, which exposed personal information - including partial payment card numbers - for an unspecified number of customers and employees.

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APRIL 8, 2022

Reporting Entities Represent Another Diverse Mix of Healthcare Sector Targets Five recently reported data breaches involving cyberattacks on a variety of different types of healthcare sector entities have affected a total of more than 1.2 million individuals.

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JULY 7, 2020

But labeling these as being just ransomware attacks often misses how much these incidents involve serious network intrusions, exfiltration of extensive amounts of data, data leaks and, as a result, reportable data breaches.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Defense Department agency that's responsible for providing secure communications and IT equipment for the president and other top government officials says a data breach of one of its systems may have exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers. Defense Information Systems Agency Has a Security Mission A U.S.

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JULY 8, 2021

Yearslong Breach at Health Plan Administrator Leads to Lawsuit Settlement Two health data breaches that each took about a decade to discover illustrate just how tough it can be to detect a security incident. One of those breaches has led to a recent lawsuit settlement.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Regulator Says Rise Is Modest Considering Pandemic Work-From-Home Shift Reported data breaches in Australia increased 5% in the second half of 2020, but the nation’s privacy regulator says the increase was modest considering the massive shift to working from home.

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