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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Million Customers' Details Stolen From Taj Hotel Chain, Attacker Claims Hospitality giant Indian Hotels is probing the alleged theft of data from its systems after a criminal recently claimed they stole data pertaining to 1.5

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Browser Data, Crypto Wallets and Chat Apps Are Also Top Targets, Researchers Report Info-stealer malware built for stealing lucrative, sensitive data - including cryptocurrency wallet and remote access credentials - continues to remain popular for criminally inclined individuals.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Two Online Threat Actors Claim Responsibility Sony is investigating an apparent leak of internal data posted onto the dark web and a criminal hacking board by separate criminal actors. Sony is saying little other than "we are currently investigating the situation, and we have no further comment at this time."

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Incident Involves Ransomware Encryption and Follows Familiar, Concerning Trends A large, Seattle-based surgical group is notifying nearly 437,400 individuals that their information was potentially compromised in a ransomware and data theft incident earlier this year.

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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. Concerns are now growing over what data was stolen from the laboratory - and who might have access to it.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Data Agency for Rhineland-Palatinate Area Will Send Additional Questions to OpenAI A German data regulator will deepen its investigation of ChatGPT maker OpenAI to determine if the company's data processing requirements comply with European privacy law.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Divebell Buy Will Help Exterro Handle Structured Data Without Big Ingestion Woes Exterro has purchased a data discovery vendor led by a GE and Symantec veteran to help organizations detect, measure and remediate risk around structured data.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Guidance Cites GDPR Transparency and Consent Clauses The data protection regulator of European country Liechtenstein rolled out new data processing guidance for large language model-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT. The primary legal basis for compliance will be the consent and transparency clauses of the GDPR, the agency said.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Stevedore Says No Ransomware Found in Attack That Disrupted Australian Shipping A cyber incident that incapacitated four major Australian ports for days also resulted in the theft by hackers of employee data, the port operator said Tuesday.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

2,050 Organizations Affected After Data Stolen From Secure File-Sharing Software The count of organizations affected by the Clop ransomware group's most recent mass targeting of Progress Software's secure file transfer software doubled last week.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Consumer lenders such as mortgage brokers, auto dealers and payday lenders must soon report data breaches to the Federal Trade Commission under a revised regulation that mandates public disclosure. Non-Banking Institutions Will Be Required to Report Breaches Under Revised Rule.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The FBI responded by reverifying InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. 11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus , while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. But on Sept. defense contractors.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Dig Purchase Will Give Customers Visibility, Control Around Multi-Cloud Data Estate Palo Alto Networks plans to purchase a data security posture management startup led by a Microsoft and Google veteran and backed by Samsung.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Exploit Goes Public But No Sign of Active Exploitation Atlassian added new urgency Thursday to a warning that customers with on-premises Confluence servers should patch immediately to protect against a vulnerability that attackers could exploit to destroy data.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

McLaren Health Care Ransomware Incident Among Latest Alleged Alphv/BlackCat Attacks Ransomware-as-a-service gang Alphv/BlackCat claims to have stolen 6 terabytes of data on 2.5 million patients in a recent attack on Michigan-based McLaren Health Care, which operates 13 hospitals and a network of cancer centers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

MyDeal Data Appears Online, Vinomofo Discloses Breach, Optus Fallout Continues Personal data from MyDeal, a marketplace owned by Australia's Woolworths Group grocery chain, has appeared for sale on a data leak forum.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CEO Jay Chaudhry: In-Line Inspection, App-to-App Protection Aid Data Defense Growth Zscaler's ability to inspect traffic in-line and secure application-to-application communications has driven massive growth in its data protection business, CEO Jay Chaudhry said.

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JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. Data Viper has sought to differentiate itself by advertising “access to private and undisclosed breach data.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The modern pace of data creation is staggering. The average organization produces data constantly—perhaps even continuously—and soon it’s investing in servers to provide ample storage for that information. But the creation of new data never slows for long. What is a data center?

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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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APRIL 14, 2023

In this podcast, Rodman Ramezanian, global cloud threat lead at Skyhigh Security, discusses why the risk of data breaches is so high, how security teams can protect data wherever it resides, and why security leaders should embrace a new mindset for data protection.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data monetization is a business capability where an organization can create and realize value from data and artificial intelligence (AI) assets. A value exchange system built on data products can drive business growth for your organization and gain competitive advantage.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

After Optus, Another Australian Subsidiary Reports a Data Breach Telecom giant SingTel is managing multiple data breaches just weeks after Australian subsidiary Optus reported a breach affecting 9.8 million individuals. One of the new breaches is also in Australia.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Researchers Say Breach Illustrates Why Schools Are Major Targets for Cybercriminals An Ohio community college is notifying 290,000 people of a data theft breach this spring that may have compromised their personal and health information. Security researchers say small schools such as this are now favored targets.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Information From 2004 to 2020 Exposed for High School Students, Teachers and Others Colorado's Department of Higher Education is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack in June, in which attackers stole personal data on current and past students and teachers, dating from 2004 to 2020.

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Security Affairs

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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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Tampering with training data is among the top threats to large language models.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On 27 November 2023, the Council adopted the final text of the Data Act which facilitates (and in certain cases, mandates) the access to (personal and non-personal) data. The Data Act was originally proposed by the European Commission in 2022.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The types of data leaked online are extensive. The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web.

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