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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Hacktivists Leak Sensitive Employee Information From Idaho National Laboratory The hacktivist group SiegedSec has taken responsibility for a massive data breach targeting Idaho National Laboratory, a leading nuclear energy testing lab.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

New FCC Disclosure Rules Cover All Personal Information of Telecom Customers The FCC approved new guidelines that note how data breaches "have only grown in frequency and severity" since the commission adopted its privacy protection policies 16 years ago.

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MAY 17, 2024

Covered Financial Institutions Have 30 Days to Notify Customers of Data Breaches The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved updated regulations for covered financial institutions requiring entities such as fund companies and investment advisers to notify customers within 30 days of a cyber incident that compromised their data.

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JULY 17, 2024

The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax, disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. The world’s largest recreational boat and yacht retailer MarineMax disclosed a data breach that impacted over 123,000 individuals.

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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

health data breaches - with 112.5 Will 2024 be another banner year for health data compromises? What Will 2024 Be Like If the Healthcare Sector Doesn't Step Up? Thanks to the massive Anthem hack, for nearly a decade 2015 has been the record year for U.S. million people affected. But 2023 shattered that record, big-time.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Massachusetts Management Firm to Pay $100,000, Monitor HIPAA Compliance for 3 Years A Massachusetts-based medical management firm holds the dubious honor of being the first ransomware victim fined for a data breach by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Lee Shares 2023 Q1 Data Breach Report Highlights According to findings from the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2023 Q1 Data Breach Report, the number of publicly reported data compromises decreased, but the number of data breaches with no actionable information about the root cause of the compromise grew.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

More Hacks Compromising Protected Health Info Being Reported to Regulators The tally of entities notifying federal regulators about mega health data breaches involving Clop cybercrime group hacks on Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer application keeps growing, and millions of additional individuals have been affected.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Information Commissioner Urges Organizations to Accelerate Breach Notifications Australia's information commissioner has urged organifzations to quicken the process of notifying those affected by data breaches instead of spending months analyzing each incident.

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JULY 7, 2023

Latest Hacking, Vendor Incident Trends Emerging From the Federal Tally Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year.

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Fine Imposed for Failing to Protect UK Customer Data and Misleading Britons A British financial regulator fined American credit reporting agency Equifax 11 billion pounds for its role in one of the world's largest data breaches.

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JULY 2, 2024

million individuals were affected by the data breach it suffered in February 2024. The insurance company Prudential Financial confirmed that the data breach it suffered in February 2024 affected over 2.5 Prudential Financial confirmed that more than 2.5 million individuals.

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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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APRIL 1, 2024

The OWASP Foundation disclosed a data breach that impacted some members due to a misconfiguration of an old Wiki web server. The OWASP Foundation has disclosed a data breach that impacted some of its members. No joke, we did have a data breach in late March involving the resumes of our earliest members.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Scotland Yard Probes Impact of Suspected Hack Attack Against Service Provider London's Metropolitan Police Service is investigating a serious data breach that may have exposed names, ranks and photographs for potentially all 47,000 personnel, after someone gained access "unauthorized access to the IT system" of one of its suppliers.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Whistleblower Leaks Included Information on 75,735 Current and Former Employees Tesla says it is suing two former employees for perpetrating a May data breach that exposed personal information for 75,735 current and former employees.

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JULY 13, 2024

The American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corporation disclosed a data breach following the cyber attack that hit the company in June. The American drugstore chain giant Rite Aid suffered a data breach following a cyberattack in June conducted by the RansomHub ransomware group. 148 in the Fortune 500 in 2022.

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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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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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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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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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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 25, 2024

Litigation Alleges Vendor Took 2 Years to Discover Data Theft After Hack Software vendor MCG Health has agreed to pay $8.8 The suit claims the company took two years to identify and report a data theft that affected about 1.1 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit involving a 2020 hacking incident.

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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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