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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

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A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. Data breached: >33,000,000 people’s data. Data breached: 19,718,687 records.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

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Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Data breached: 2,632,275 people’s data.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022 – 49.8 million records breached

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Welcome to our May 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 77 security incidents during the month, resulting in 49,782,129 compromised records. Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

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Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. Although many people are enticed into NFTs because the market is unregulated, that also creates major security risks. It found that 23.6%

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

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Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Source (New) Retail Italy Yes 436,932 Toner-dumping.de TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

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At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. million customers’ data.