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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

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million Gumtree user records allegedly for sale A user database from the classified advertising platform Gumtree has allegedly been offered for sale on a hacking forum. At the time of writing, it’s unclear whether this is related to a 2023 data breach suffered by the company, as discussed by Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt last March.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2021 National Meeting

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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Millions of Pure Incubation Ventures records listed on hacking forum 183,754,481 records apparently belonging to the venture capital and private equity group Pure Incubation Ventures have been listed for sale on a hacking forum. The claim is yet to be verified.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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Also, the sale of “hacking tools” doesn’t quite capture what 16Shop was all about: It was a fully automated phishing platform that gave its thousands of customers a series of brand-specific phishing kits to use, and provided the domain names needed to host the phishing pages and receive any stolen credentials.

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Robocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data

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The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

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The information was offered for a private sale on the now-defunct hacking forum Breached, and it was later leaked in its entirety for free. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. million people.