Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 29, 2022

30 Million Purported Passenger Records Listed for Sale on Cybercrime Forum A cybercrime forum this week listed for sale what a seller purports to be 30 million passenger records for users of India's railways.

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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. million LiveAutioneers customers' records had been posted for sale on a darknet forum. CloudSEK: 3.4

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Security Affairs

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. ‘ph1ns’ published a link to a database containing stolen data.

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Security Affairs

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. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor earlier this month offered for sale on the BreachForums platform the stolen data.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 19, 2024

Dataset Leaked for Free; ShinyHunters Cybercrime Gang First Advertised It in 2021 Data breach blast from the past: Data pertaining to 70 million individuals that the ShinyHunters gang claimed were AT&T customers has been leaked via a hacking forum, three years after criminals first offered it for sale.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that their personal information was exposed after threat actors breached the third-party service provider Fiserv.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected. Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

February saw two outlier breaches, which combined accounted for 79% of this month’s breached records: Zenlayer’s publicly exposed database, containing 384,658,212 records. Pure Incubation Ventures , which allegedly* had 183,754,481 records go up for sale. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

That same month, they also sold data on 1.4 But this history was either overlooked or ignored by Group-IB , the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm apparently hired by Banorte to help respond to the data breach. “We ask you to remove this post containing Banorte data. In a post to Breached on Aug.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2023

A post published on a popular hacking forum claims Volvo Cars has suffered a new data breach, alleging stolen data available for sale. French cybersecurity Anis Haboubi yesterday first noticed that a threat actor was attempting to sell data allegedly stolen from Volvo Cars on a popular hacking forum.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Craig Hale at Techradar reported: "A post on a “well-known hacking community forum” claims almost half a billion WhatsApp records have been breached and are up for sale.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below the list of top data breaches that took place in the last 12 months: May 2020 – CAM4 adult cam site leaked 11B database records including emails, private chats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The company already notified local authorities and sent a data breach notification to the impacted customers. million accounts. million accounts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Data of 750 million Indian mobile subscribers was offered for sale on dark web hacker forums earlier in January. CloudSEK researchers warned that a database containing data of 750 million Indian mobile subscribers was offered for sale on dark web hacker forums earlier in January.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. Some details: * 305.759.991 on luxottica_nice.csv * 74.417.098 unique email address * 2.590.076 unique domain mail I don't think it's the data from the ransomware attack. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, a threat actor is offering for sale its databases on a hacker forum. firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But this growth in digital sales can come with a hefty price tag for retailers and consumer goods businesses: a much greater risk of data breaches. With worldwide e-commerce sales totals expected to reach $8.1 This wealth of data is an attractive target for cybercriminals to exploit for financial gain.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

Fast forward two and a half years and the successor to this forum saw a post this week alleging to contain the entire corpus of data. Except that rather than put it up for sale, someone has decided to just dump it all publicly and make it easily accessible to the masses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hundreds of millions of PII records belonging to Indian residents, including Aadhaar cards, are being offered for sale on the Dark Web. In August, another threat actor going by the alias ‘ Lucius ’ posted a thread on Breach Forums promoting a 1.8 terabyte data leak impacting an unnamed “India internal law enforcement organization.”

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Security Affairs

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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a statement published on its website today, the company confirmed it had suffered an intrusion involving “some T-Mobile data,” but said it was too soon in its investigation to know what was stolen and how many customers might be affected. A sales thread tied to the allegedly stolen T-Mobile customer data.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2019

On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked merchants announced a blockbuster new sale: More than 5.3 Hy-Vee said it was too early to tell when the breach initially began or for how long intruders were inside their payment systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email. The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The sales intelligence firm Apollo is the last victim of a massive data breach that exposed more than 200 million contact records. Apollo collects a lot of its information from public sources, including names, email addresses, and company contact information, it also gathers data by scraping Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitality chain McMenamins disclosed a data breach after a recent ransomware attack. Hospitality chain McMenamins discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack that took place on December 12. According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

Unknown threat actors claimed to have obtained data of a billion Chinese residents after breaching a database of the Shanghai police. If the incident will be confirmed, this data breach is the largest one in the country’s history. “Shangai authorities have not publicly responded to the purported hack.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified exactly 100 publicly disclosed incidents during the month, accounting for 41,970,182 breached records. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Tech giant Acer was hacked twice in a week, the same threat actor (Desorden) initially breached some of its servers in India , now it is claiming to have also breached some systems in Taiwan. Last week the company revealed that its after-sales service systems in India were hit by an isolated attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale account databases containing an aggregate total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. A data breach broker is selling account databases containing a total of 34 million user records stolen from 17 companies. Source Bleeping Computer. The seventeen companies are 8.1 million (8.1

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Threat actors are offering for sale tens of databases on a hacker forum that contains roughly 550 million stolen user records. Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. Hackers are also offering for sale a separate database containing 47.1

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2020

After a data breach, if individuals' stolen information is offered for sale on the dark web, that potentially bolsters class action lawsuits filed by plaintiffs against the breached organization, says technology attorney Steven Teppler of the law firm Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

Recently T-Mobile has launched an investigation into a possible security breach after a threat actor started offering for sale 100 million T-Mobile customer records on the dark web. Yesterday T-Mobile confirmed a data breach but announced that it was still investigating the extent of the security breach.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 95 security incidents throughout the month, accounting for 32,051,144 breached records. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Data breaches. Data breach.

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