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UScellular data breach: attackers ported customer phone numbers

Security Affairs

Then threat actors tricked UScellular employees working in retail stores into downloading and installing malicious software. A few employees in retail stores were successfully scammed by unauthorized individuals and downloaded software onto a store computer.” ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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Time to Change Your Password!

The Texas Record

Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? The standards on password usage are changing. Well, let me share some good news. Past ‘Best’ Practices. Like this: TxRecBi#1!

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U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

Krebs on Security

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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Now Playing at the FTC: MoviePass Data Security Case and ROSCA Settlement

Hunton Privacy

As reported on the Hunton Retail Law Resource blog , this week, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3 to 1 to accept a settlement agreement with MoviePass, Inc., Implemented a convoluted “ticket verification system,” requiring subscribers to submit pictures of their movie tickets within a certain time period.

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US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

Security Affairs

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation is issuing this announcement to inform mobile carriers and the public of the increasing use of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swapping by criminals to steal money from fiat and virtual currency accounts.” Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts.

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Construction USA Yes 489 ClearVision Optical Source (New) Retail USA Yes 261 Symphony Financial, LLC. 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.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Amtrak resets user passwords after Guest Rewards data breach (unknown). Australian activewear retailer In Sport infected with ransomware (unknown). Cyber attacks.