Data Breach Today

APRIL 24, 2023

Lee Shares 2023 Q1 Data Breach Report Highlights According to findings from the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2023 Q1 Data Breach Report, the number of publicly reported data compromises decreased, but the number of data breaches with no actionable information about the root cause of the compromise grew.

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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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MAY 8, 2023

Data Leak Comes After Fullerton India Refused to Negotiate With Ransomware Group The LockBit 3.0 ransomware group on Monday leaked 600 gigabytes of critical data stolen from Indian lender Fullerton India two weeks after the group demanded a $3 million ransom from the company.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

The data exposures all stem from a misconfiguration in Salesforce Community that allows an unauthenticated user to access records that should only be available after logging in. A researcher found DC Health had five Salesforce Community sites exposing data. Huntington Bank has disabled the leaky TCF Bank Salesforce website. .”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Data Leaked from a Thrid-Party Vendor U.S. wireless telecom USCellular says a data breach at a third party vendor resulted in a leak of 52,000 named and email addresses. The company confirmed that data from the leak is available for download on a criminal data breach forum.

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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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MARCH 8, 2023

An Estimated 600,000 Customers Affected by Breach Records of more than half a million customers of a lending service owned by India's largest private sector bank are apparently downloadable for free on a criminal data breach forum. HDFC Bank says it detected a data breach at one of its service providers that processes customer information.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Target Does Not Appear to Have Deliberately Targeted Members of Congress A hacker has been selling data stolen from an online health insurance marketplace used by members of Congress and residents of Washington, D.C. The data pertains to "numerous" lawmakers as well as spouses, dependents and employees.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Police Say Gang Extorted Millions From Victims Not Just by Stealing, But Lying Too Cybercrime experts have long urged victims to never pay a ransom in return for any promise an attacker makes to delete stolen data.

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MARCH 29, 2023

All Social Media Apps Collect Information on a Scale That Facilitates Surveillance There's much national security ado about how much user data gets collected by the Chinese-owned, wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2023

In the age before the cloud, data security was straightforward. Related: Taming complexity as a business strategy Enterprises created or ingested data, stored it and secured it in a physical data center. Data security was placed in the hands of technicians wearing tennis shoes, who could lay their hands on physical servers.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Extortionists Dump Private and Corporate Customer Data From European Car Giant Christmastime was bleak for a number of organizations in Britain that got hit with ransomware, including car dealership giant Arnold Clark, which originally reported that no customer data had been stolen.

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MAY 17, 2023

Hackers Are Targeting Ukrainian Insurance Companies for Their Personal Information Ukraine's top cybersecurity agency says Russian hackers took a sudden interest in obtaining personal data and mounted successful attacks against more than one-third of the country's largest insurers.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Accenture's Robert Boyce Advises Firms to Update Monitoring and Approval Processes Accenture analyzed the top 20 most active ransomware leak sites to see how threat actors are posting sensitive corporate information and making the data easy to search and exploit.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection. This should bother you.”

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Reports 'No Evidence' Twitter Flaw Exploited to Amass Latest Leaked Data on Users Twitter says a massive collection of purported user data being sold and then leaked via cybercrime markets was not amassed by exploiting a vulnerability in its systems but is instead "likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources." (..)

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APRIL 5, 2023

OpenText, Varonis, Forcepoint Enter Leaders Category While Trellix, Broadcom Fall OpenText, Varonis and Forcepoint joined Google and Microsoft atop Forrester's data security rankings, while Trellix and Broadcom fell from the leaders category.

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JULY 15, 2022

Attempts to Accurately Track Breaches and Ransomware Hampered by Scarce Details Ransomware attacks and data breaches: One thing both have in common is the challenge of attempting to accurately understand their true scale and impact.

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Krebs on Security

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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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Victims Notified of Ransomware Attack Six Months After the Incident A cyberattack on a Canadian teachers’ union gave thieves access to sensitive data of more than 60,000 members The union is yet to disclose the exact number of affected individuals, but stated that both former and current members are impacted.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 16, 2023

Over the years, most organizations acquire multiple tools for protecting data but a variety of personnel and policies make it difficult to manage enterprisewide. Skyhigh Security’s Nate Brady says it’s time to look into the latest security service edge and secure access service edge solutions.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Witness victims' continuing willingness to pay a ransom - separate to a decryptor - in return from a promise from extortionists that they will delete stolen data.

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MAY 13, 2023

Hackers may have accessed or stolen patient data of 103,974 patients who received care between March 2012 and last November. Hacking Incident Affects Patients Who Received Care Over a 10 Year Period A rural Utah healthcare provider is notifying more than one hundred thousand individuals of a cybersecurity incident.

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MAY 22, 2023

Several Proposed Class Actions Filed Against NationsBenefits, Aetna, Others Proposed class action lawsuits are piling up over hackers' use of a vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere secure file transfer and a resulting data breach affecting 3 million individuals.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Eset Finds Customer Info, VPN Credentials & Authentication Keys on Used Routers Sanitize IT gear before decommissioning is well-trod cybersecurity advice made to corporations everywhere and yet many persist in disposing of equipment still laden with sensitive data.

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MAY 8, 2023

NextGen's Breach Follows Claims by BlackCat in an Alleged Earlier Incident Cloud-based electronic health records vendor NextGen Healthcare is notifying more than 1 million individuals of a data compromise involving stolen credentials.

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JUNE 30, 2022

How can CISOs put the cyberthreat intelligence data they receive into practice? Kunal Sehgal, former director of global cyber resilience at Standard Chartered Bank, discusses how different industries use cyberthreat intelligence and explains misconceptions about sharing information.

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MAY 4, 2023

Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against data analytics vendor Kochava in bid by the agency to permanently stop the company from selling geolocation data collected from mobile devices. Ruling Leaves Door Open for a Revised Lawsuit An Idaho federal court dismissed the U.S. The agency can file an amended complaint within 30 days.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

1,802 Breach Notifications Issued in 2022; Over 440 Million Individuals Affected Data breaches in 2022 hit near-record levels as U.S. organizations issued 1,802 data breach notifications and more than 400 million individuals were affected.

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APRIL 7, 2023

CEO Martin Roesch Says Netography Can Detect Anomalous Behavior Without Human Help Netography has added more detection features and data science capabilities to help large enterprises better understand what's on their networks, according to CEO Martin Roesch.

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