Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2024

Law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe disclosed a data breach that took place in early 2023, which impacted roughly 600,000 individuals. The law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, disclosed a data breach that impacted 638,000 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

Unemployment agency France Travail (Pôle Emploi) recently suffered a data breach that could impact 43 million people. On August 2023, the French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and notified 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a security breach that may impact 13.4 Media reported [ 1 , 2 ] that the company is notifying millions of current and former members of a data breach. Exposed data does not include usernames, passwords, Social Security Numbers (SSNs), and financial data.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether businesses are stepping up their ransomware defenses in response to several warnings released by the U.S. governments highlighting the threat posed to infrastructure. Also featured are the Thingiverse data breach and airline fraud trends.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. Internet/Securence says your email is secure. Hold Security founder Alex Holden said his researchers had unearthed a public link to a U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global suffered a data breach after an unauthorized party accessed files from certain of its systems. Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global disclosed a data breach. The notification pointed out that types of affected personal information vary by individual.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

MoneyGram disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack in September, during which threat actors stole customer data. The company launched an investigation into the security breach and notified law enforcement. ” reads the notice of data breach published by MoneyGram.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. “In assessing the nature of the breach, all parties discussed a potential delay to public reporting under Item 1.05(c) AT&T Corp. million former account holders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. GMA disclosed a data breach that impacted medicare and other information belonging to 5465 people. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

Kootenai Health suffered a data breach impacting over 464,000 patients following a 3AM ransomware attack. Kootenai Health disclosed a data breach impacting over 464,088 patients following the leak of their personal information by the ThreeAM (3AM) ransomware gang. ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ personal information. Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil Dings Cybersecurity Law as 'Bloody Useless' The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually. Acting on a tip from Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2024

US cancer center City of Hope suffered a data breach that impacted 800,000 individuals, personal and health information was compromised. City of Hope suffered a data breach, the organization started notifying 827149 individuals that their personal and health information was compromised. medical record number).”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July 28th of this year, the Company suffered a possible data breach.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor earlier this month offered for sale on the BreachForums platform the stolen data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. ” reads the data breach notification published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Transparency is at the root of ETSI, in our governance and technical work.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

The UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a data breach at a third-party payroll system that exposed data of armed forces personnel and veterans. The UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a data breach impacting a third-party payroll system that exposed data of approximately 272,000 armed forces personnel and veterans.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2023

Information privacy and information security are two different things. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Information privacy is the ability to control who (or what) can view or access information that is collected about you or your customers. They take all this private information, and then they sell it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Kentucky health system Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after it was a victim of a ransomware attack in May. Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack that hit the organization on May 9, 2023. ” reads the notice of security incident.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal suffered a data breach impacting 58,000 customers, attackers gained unauthorized access to a server via GitLab flaw. US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a company server by exploiting a GitLab vulnerability.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Data breaches.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2024

The company revealed that multiple work computers were infected with malware, in response to the compromise the security staff disconnected impacted systems from the network. ” The company is reporting the impacted individuals and has notified the Personal Information Protection Commission in anticipation of a data breach.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. Their asking price? criminal records. .

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty ( i.e. , a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February 2022.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. On this page, you will find all our usual information breaking down the month’s security incidents. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As it relates to the UK GDPR, there are two essential concepts to understand, and they're the first two bulleted items in their personal data breaches guide : The UK GDPR introduces a duty on all organisations to report certain personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 106 publicly disclosed incidents accounting for 29,582,356 breached records this month. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN), the Ontario birth registry disclosed a data breach affecting some 3.4 The BORN funded by the government of Ontario disclosed a data breach that impacts some 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients appeared first on Security Affairs. million people.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. The data stolen included customer name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number, as well as information on the number of customer lines and plan features.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2024

MediSecure is a company that provides digital health solutions, particularly focusing on secure electronic prescription delivery services in Australia. MediSecure has identified a cyber security incident impacting the personal and health information of individuals. ” reads a company’s statement on cyber security incident.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

29,530,829,012 known records breached so far in 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to our 2024 data breaches and cyber attacks page, where you can find an overview of the year’s top security incidents, the most breached sectors of 2024, month-on-month trends, links to our monthly reports, and much more.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 12, 2024

Over the last 6 years, we've been very happy to welcome dozens of national governments to have unhindered access to their domains in Have I Been Pwned , free from cost and manual verification barriers.

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