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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

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million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

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Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

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Data breaches. Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

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Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores. The site’s security team suspected that users were being targeted in a credential-stuffing attack; this is where cyber criminals use a list of stolen usernames and passwords en masse to break into an account.

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

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According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. Data breached: 36 million records. The claim is yet to be verified.

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

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More than 10 million lines of Pastelería Mozart customer data apparently posted on dark web The Ynnian hacking group has posted 10,870,525 lines of data on the dark web, apparently originating from Pastelería Mozart, a popular bakery chain in Chile. Data breached: 10,870,524 lines.

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

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Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93 Other news NIST releases version 2.0