Data Breach Today

JUNE 15, 2021

Data Was Left Unsecured by Unidentified Marketing Services Company Volkswagen and its Audi subsidiary are notifying 3.3 and Canada of a breach of personal information by a marketing services supplier. million people in the U.S

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JANUARY 19, 2024

American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 backpack market with the JanSport, Dickies, Eastpak, Timberland, Smartwool, Vans, and The North Face brands. million customers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 12, 2021

Volkswagen America discloses a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal details of more than 3.3 Volkswagen America discloses a data breach suffered by a third-party vendor used by the car vendor for sales and marketing purposes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak).

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JUNE 18, 2021

The supermarket chain Wegmans US Wegmans discloses a data breach, customers information was exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration issue. Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Financial data and customers’ social security numbers were not exposed because the company does not collect this type of information.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach , the incident exposed the data of 133 customers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2021

US wireless carrier UScellular discloses data breach, personal information of customers may have been exposed and their phone numbers ported. US wireless carrier UScellular discloses a data breach that exposed personal information of its customers. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

National pharmacy network PharMerica discloses a data breach that impacted more than 5.8 National pharmacy network PharMerica disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of 5,815,591 individuals. The company is the second largest in the institutional pharmacy services market, with revenues of $1.9

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Robinhood disclosed a security breach, an unidentified threat actor gained unauthorized access to approximately 7 million customer records. Robinhood Markets , Inc. The company disclosed a data breach, a threat actor gained access to the personal information of approximately 7 million customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

MAY 27, 2021

UK police forces experienced 2,386 data breaches in 2020, according to data gathered by VPNoverview. For example, the report revealed that police stations suffered 299 data breaches on average between January 2016 and April 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

UScellular, one of the largest wireless carriers in the US, has disclosed a data breach after the hack suffered in December 2021. UScellular has disclosed a data breach after the attack that compromised the company’s billing system in December 2021. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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JUNE 12, 2021

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. McDonald’s is currently notifying affected customers and authorities in all impacted markets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach ).

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MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. pic.twitter.com/62uQWT4YQB — Andrea Draghetti (@AndreaDraghetti) May 12, 2023 The most recent entry in the database is March 16th, 2021, a circumstance that suggests it is a new data breach suffered by Luxottica.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2023

Sysco, the global food distribution giant, disclosed a data breach, the compromised data includes customer and employee data. Sysco Corporation is an American multinational corporation involved in marketing and distributing food products, smallwares, kitchen equipment and tabletop items.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It has been another month of comparatively few reported cyber attacks and data breaches, with our August list containing 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records. You can that incident, along with our full list of cyber attacks and data breaches, below – with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 29, 2018

Coding Error Exposed Identifying Information In Medical Practice Reviews Australian medical booking service HealthEngine says late Friday it notified 75 users of a breach that may have exposed some identifying information.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed this week a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. said Experian Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse. .

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Detecting data breaches has always been a challenge. Of course, technical vulnerabilities aren’t the only causes of data breaches. Human error is regularly found to be the most common reason for security and data breaches. BreachTrak is the most comprehensive solution on the market.

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MARCH 6, 2020

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers ). million subscribers at December 31, 2019.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

zip” that attackers claim contain around 5% of the total amount of documents stolen during the attack, The archive contains files related to Canon’s website and marketing materials, according to BleepingComputer’s source it does not appear to contain any financial information, employee information, or other sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Subway UK confirmed the hack of a marketing system that was used to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Hackers have compromised a marketing system in Subway UK and used it to send out phishing messages to deliver malware to the customers. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Subway UK).

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). Massive MGM data breach might be a smokescreen for more insidious attack (10.6

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And don’t forget to check out our Q3 2021 data breaches and cyber attacks quarterly review , in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists. Data breaches. Data breaches. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2021 – 51.2 Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

APRIL 30, 2020

With only 49 reported data breaches and cyber attacks this month, you might have thought April was a calm month in the cyber security department. So how can we account for dip in reported data breaches? So how can we account for dip in reported data breaches?

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 4, 2022

Data of 102 Mailchimp Accounts Exported; One Trezor user clams 55,000 pounds losses A data breach involving email marketing firm Mailchimp has affected customers of cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Trezor, which launched an investigation after its customers received phishing emails containing their Trezor email addresses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In July 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt new cybersecurity rules and requirements for all market entities to address risks. Under the rule surrounding Form 8-K reporting, public companies are now required to report data breaches within four days of an incident. million, representing a 15.3%

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The CNIL’s Decision and Sanction Key takeaways from the CNIL’s investigations include: Groupe Canal+ was unable to provide any evidence of valid consent from individuals for the sending of direct marketing communications. In light of these infringements, the CNIL imposed a €600,000 fine on Groupe Canal+.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. In other news….

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Hashed Passwords Were Leaked; No Financial Data Exposed Digital streaming platform Mixcloud says it is the victim of a data breach after an attacker shared personal data for registered users with several media outlets, including Vice and ZDNet.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach. Collected data si shared with a number of partner sites (such as insurance or loan agencies), that pay per lead referral. DATABASE SALE ON DARKWEB MARKETS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CyberNews researchers discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media containing close to 39 million US citizen records. The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media, an online marketing company. What happened to the data? Original post: [link].

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MARCH 1, 2020

The Israeli marketing firm Straffic accidentally exposed 49 million unique email addresses stored in an Elasticsearch database. The Israeli marketing firm Straffic exposed 49 million unique email addresses due to mishandled credentials for an Elasticsearch database. SecurityAffairs – Straffic, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2020

Million Customers' Records Being Marketed on Darknet Auction website LiveAuctioneers has acknowledged that it sustained a data breach in June. CloudSEK: 3.4 The announcement came after threat intelligence firm CloudSEK reported that it discovered about 3.4

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with custom merchandise platform CafePress in connection with the company’s alleged failure to implement reasonable security measures, and its alleged attempt to cover up a 2019 data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2019

The ECB was the victim of a data breach, the bank announced that hackers had access for several months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to its newsletter. SecurityAffairs – ECB, data breach). The intrusion was discovered during regular maintenance work. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Also, why the healthcare sector remains so bad at detecting data breaches and blocking ransomware. Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Inside the darknet marketplaces that serve cybercrime-as-a-service buyers and sellers.

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