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Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Security Affairs

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was compromised in an attack targeting a third-party service provider. The hacked third-party company manages the Acer employee attendance data.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. With one month left in 2021, the annual total running total of compromised records is to just shy of 5 billion. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news….

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly. Data breaches.

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Delta Electronics, a tech giants’ contractor, hit by Conti ransomware

Security Affairs

Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese contractor for multiple tech giants such as Apple, Dell, HP and Tesla, was hit by Conti ransomware. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. ” states the data breach notification published by the company.

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CryptoAgility to take advantage of Quantum Computing

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

CryptoAgility to take advantage of Quantum Computing. Tue, 05/04/2021 - 09:40. What is quantum computing and what changes will it bring? You’d probably do the computation a few times, supplemented by further checking using a classical computer, to make sure you arrive at the same result). Threat or Opportunity?

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Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

Security Affairs

.” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. Snatch threat actors conduct ransomware operations involving data exfiltration and double extortion.”

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Microsoft & Google Offer Discounted Cybersecurity Solutions to Rural Hospitals

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware attacks , where hackers encrypt critical data and demand payment for decryption, have skyrocketed. These attacks not only compromise sensitive patient data but also disrupt essential hospital services, putting lives at risk. In 2021, 45.9 million records were breached, marking a bad year for data security.