Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023. ” continues the notice.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It? Data breaches are highly damaging and equally embarrassing for businesses and consumers. If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches.

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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 7, 2021

An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous 4chan user has published a torrent link to a 128GB file on the 4chan discussion board, the leaked archive contains sensitive data stolen from 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus says the FBI is working with local authorities to investigate the Optus data breach. The government, as well as the Australian federal police and other government agencies, are working closely together on the Optus data breach,' he said.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 8, 2019

On July 1, 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority ( Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens , (the “Dutch DPA”)) announced that it had expanded its guidance on data breaches. The updates aim to answer questions about data breaches received by the Dutch DPA from organizations since 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The problem was first reported by Bleepingcomputer, which tracked a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service. According to the media outlet, the incident resulted in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. ” reads the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 6, 2024

Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from July in this blog. Iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of themselves (unknown). Food delivery service Instacart denies cyber attack large-scale data breach (278,531). California Health Care Plan warns of data breach (35,883).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised. For now, it’s unclear what damage the data could cause if exposed, so we’ve omitted the figure from our tally.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database comprised a list of records from past data breaches. Amtrak resets user passwords after Guest Rewards data breach (unknown).

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Threat actors leaked source code and gameplay videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA6) after they have allegedly breached Rockstar Game. Threat actors allegedly compromised Rockstar Game’s Slack server and Confluence wiki and leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay videos and source code. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

The popular SeaChange video platform is the latest victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak the stolen data. SeaChange International, the multinational supplier of video delivery software solutions, was the victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang. – The company is traded on NASDAQ.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

While widespread civil unrest escalated in the US and the protest against the brutality of the police is spreading in the principal cities, Anonymous released a video , threatening Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) that it will “expose your many crimes to the world.”. ” concludes Hunt. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2020

The Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked, attackers are threatening to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. ZEE5 is an Indian video on demand service run by Essel Group via its subsidiary Zee Entertainment Enterprises. ” reads the post published by the expert. . ” reported Tagade.

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Threatpost

JULY 21, 2020

Chris Vickery talks about his craziest data breach discoveries and why "vishing" is the next top threat no one's ready for.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

US-based supplier of video delivery software solutions, SeaChange International, revealed that a ransomware attack disrupted its operations in Q1 2020. SeaChange International, a US-based supplier of video delivery software solutions, revealed that a ransomware attack has disrupted its operations during the first quarter of 2020.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 7, 2024

I suggest, based on my experiences with data breaches over the years, that AT&T is about to have a very bad time of it. Class actions following data breaches have become all too common and I've written before about how much I despise them. Surveylama also got breached (that's another 4.4M

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 15, 2020

An unsecured database discovered online has leaked thousands of baby photos and videos. . The leaked data includes photos, videos, and birthdates of babies, as well as 800,000 email addresses, location data as well as detailed device information. . Data privacy and security come as our priority. Bithouse, Inc.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Heathrow Airport £120,000 for failing to secure sensitive personal data after a member of public found an unencrypted USB stick containing data about the airport’s staff. In total, the memory stick contained more than 1,000 files, but just 1% of the contents comprised personal data.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

With stories of data breaches appearing daily, many organisations will be wondering when their time will come. This blog outlines some of the free resources IT Governance offers to help organisations prevent, prepare for and respond to data breaches. Videos, blogs and podcasts. Green papers. Get # BreachReady.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 10, 2018

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded that Facebook failed to safeguard its users’ information and that it failed to be transparent about how that data was harvested by others.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Google has accidentally shared private videos of some users that were stored on its servers with other, the tech giant notified impacted users. Google admitted a new privacy incident, it has accidentally shared private videos saved on its servers with other users. SecurityAffairs – p rivacy, data leak). Whoa, what?

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2021

Good timing indeed, here why this is really bugging me in this week's video. References Not industry related at all, but if you'd like to see what I've been up to this week on the mountain biking front, here's a "top to bottom" video with Ari (I think I'm still recovering from 2 days of this.) A brand new YouTube show from Varonis.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2024

If you're in the sun a lot like us, just do it 🙂 With that community service notice done, let's get into today's video: References Sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! finally wrapped it up yesterday after recording this vid, beautiful machine!)

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Visit Last Watchdog to view videos, surf cyber news, gain informative analysis and read guest essays from leading lights in the cybersecurity community. Acohido is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and web producer.

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IT Governance

MAY 29, 2018

Remember when I said last month that “with the GDPR less than a month away I imagine future lists will be even longer thanks to the introduction of mandatory data breach notifications”? Data breach. Privacy Commissioner says Avenue Living privacy breach poses a risk. HIT Hacked Again?

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

After recording this video, someone also pointed out that the data is already being abused in a pretty traceable fashion: @troyhunt not sure if this is particularly useful but I just received this scam attempt. One click gets you a unique email address for every online signup. Try it now!

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 10, 2020

Health secretary heard saying he ‘should have known’ about video consultation breach The health secretary was caught on a live microphone admitting he was unaware of a data breach involving confidential patient information at his own GP practice until asked about it at a virtual conference.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2024

Data breach verification: that seems like a good place to start given the discussion in this week's video about Accor. Watch the vid for the whole thing but in summary, data allegedly taken from Accor was published to a popular hacking forum and the headlines inevitably followed.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 10, 2018

But 311,127 Australians had their private data harvested. This means that for every person who took the personality quiz, almost 6,000 people had their private data accessed Continue reading. Facebook has revealed that only 53 users in Australia installed the Facebook app This is Your Digital Life.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 4, 2022

I somehow ended up blasting through an hour and a quarter in this week's video with loads of discussion on the CTARS / NDIS data breach then a real time "let's see what the fuss is about" with news that one of our state's digital driver's licenses (DDL) may be easily forgeable.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite I caught up with Josef Prusa in Prague (what he has created at Prusa is massively impressive!) Experts Live EU was an awesome event 😎 (felt a lot of love in Prague, thanks everyone 😊) The dbForums data breach went into HIBP (and.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous individual has leaked online the source code and streamers and users data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch. We can confirm a breach has taken place.

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