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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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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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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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APRIL 15, 2024

Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attack.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. GMA disclosed a data breach that impacted medicare and other information belonging to 5465 people. ” reads the data breach notification.

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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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MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. It was leaked online today.”

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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 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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APRIL 2, 2024

The data is available for sale on the cybercrime forum, Sanggiero published a sample as proof of the data breach. Thanks to a combination of enumeration vector and the presence of Mailinator addresses, it's very clear the user data did indeed come from Pandabuy.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Indian Ministry of Railways denies that the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp, is the source of any data breach, but says it's investigating.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. “On October 19 th , 2023, Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) informed the Government of Canada of a breach involving Government of Canada information held by BGRS and SIRVA Canada systems.”

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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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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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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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APRIL 4, 2024

299,368,075 records known to be breached. This month saw fewer records breached than in February (a 58% drop), but a staggering 388% rise in incidents. To minimise data skewing, we’ve accounted for this by providing two Data Breach Dashboards this month: one including and one excluding the above events.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Samsung Electronics disclosed a data breach that exposed customer personal information to an unauthorized individual. Samsung Electronics suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of some of its customers to an unauthorized individual. ” reads the data breach notification sent to the customers.

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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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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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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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APRIL 10, 2024

AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. The archive contains 73.481.539 records. “It It was leaked online today.”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

29,530,829,012 known records breached so far in 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to our 2024 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, the most breached sectors of 2024, month-on-month trends, links to our monthly reports, and much more.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Breaches and Complaints Continue to Soar as Regulatory Duties Increase As the volume of major health data breaches rises, the federal agency charged with investigating those incidents told Congress this week that it lacks the needed funding to keep up with its mounting workload.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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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 4, 2024

US cancer center City of Hope suffered a data breach that impacted 800,000 individuals, personal and health information was compromised. City of Hope suffered a data breach, the organization started notifying 827149 individuals that their personal and health information was compromised. medical record number).”

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe disclosed a data breach that took place in early 2023, which impacted roughly 600,000 individuals. The law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, disclosed a data breach that impacted 638,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot disclosed this week a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot disclosed this week a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 million individuals. million individuals. million individuals.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The Healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare has disclosed a data breach that impacted 40 affiliated nursing facilities. In November 2023, the Healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare discovered a data breach that exposed personal health information related to residents and employees at HMG affiliated nursing facilities.

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APRIL 14, 2024

The compromised data include email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and website activity. Financial data was not impacted in the alleged incident. “In March 2024, the Canadian discount store chain Giant Tiger Stores Limited ( [link] ) suffered a data breach that exposed over 2.8 million clients.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files. Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was compromised in an attack targeting a third-party service provider. The hacked third-party company manages the Acer employee attendance data.

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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. Paramount did not disclose details about the attack. ” concludes the letter.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages.

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