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JULY 12, 2020

Delivery startup Dunzo , India’s food and grocery delivery service backed Google , has suffered a data breach, The News Minute reported. The company’s databases were compromised including users’ contact details and email addresses. Dunzo has launched an internal investigation, the online news service reported.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Messaging app Telegram said a data breach has exposed a database containing the personal information of millions of users, according to a Cointelgraph report. The database, which was exposed on a darknet forum, included users’ phone numbers and unique Telegram user IDs, according to the report.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

FitMetrix , a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by MINDBODY , has suffered a data breach that could impact 113.5 Bob Diachenko, Hacken ’s director of cyber risk research, revealed the breach was caused by several servers that were left without a password. million users.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Close to 1 billion email accounts were leaked by a marketing company in what some researchers are calling the “biggest and most comprehensive email database” breach ever. The online database was created by a company called Verifications.io, which reportedly had no security measures in place. support team. Verifications.io

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Following reports of its data breach last year, Marriott said on Friday (Jan. 4) that the total number of guest records involved in a Starwood database security incident was less than initially disclosed. million unencrypted passport numbers were “accessed by an unauthorized third party.”

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MAY 20, 2020

Home Chef, the Chicago-based meal kit and food delivery company, announced a data breach after a hacker sold information on its 8 million customers on a dark web marketplace, according to Bleeping Computer. They provided a sample showing the type of information in the database.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Last week , Equifax disclosed a data breach that could impact 143 million consumers. The information includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers, though the company also reported U.S. 209,000 | Credit card numbers possibly gathered by Equifax hackers.

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JUNE 29, 2018

The first class action lawsuit against Exactis has been filed in response to the company’s massive data breach that exposed the private information of more than 200 million U.S. It seems like this is a database with pretty much every U.S. Keller is also co-lead counsel in the recent Equifax data breach class action.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

American Express India enabled a database to be accessible to anyone for longer than five days in October, according to a report in The Next Web. According to the report , the Hacken cyber consultancy team’s director of cyber risk research, Bob Diachenko, discovered the unprotected database on Oct. 20, but potentially even longer.

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JULY 2, 2019

In a reported leak of billions of user records in a smart home data breach, researchers have found that a database that belongs to Chinese firm Orvibo has been left open without a password for protection. According to a report from vpnMentor, “These would be sent to a user to reset either their password or their email address.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Multiple lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed in Philadelphia over a data breach at Wawa convenience stores, which affected 850 locations along the East Coast of the U.S., Wawa recently came forward with information that it found malware on its payment processing servers, and that it stopped the breach on Dec.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Equifax, the credit scoring company that suffered a data breach that impacted as many as 143 million Americans, is blaming a vendor software flaw in its online databases. According to Equifax, the impacted information includes names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and, in some instances, drivers’ license numbers.

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JULY 29, 2020

The Philippines central bank is now considering creating its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), it said during a virtual meeting, having formed a committee to address the issue, Bloomberg reported. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal addresses.

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APRIL 3, 2019

The Georgia Institute of Technology confirmed that it suffered a data breach that has exposed the personal information of 1.3 “A central Georgia Tech database was accessed by an unknown outside entity. However, it’s unknown how long the hacker(s) had access to the database.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 27, 2024

In a recent development that has raised concerns across the education sector, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed a significant data breach involving student information. Data put on sale On June 18, Sp1d3r posted snippets of the data it stole on a hacking forum and began selling the data for $150,000.

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JULY 29, 2020

The Philippines central bank is now considering creating its own central bank digital currency (CDBC), it said during a virtual meeting, having formed a committee to address the issue, Bloomberg reported. In addition to email addresses, the data accessed included names, phone numbers, ordered products and postal addresses.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A popular London-based massage startup has leaked its entire customer database — and could face steep fines due to violating GDPR (General Date Protection Regulation) rules. Anyone who discovered the information could easily access, edit or delete the database.

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JULY 5, 2023

Adherence to these regulations is paramount for safeguarding sensitive patient information from data breaches and cyber attacks. From March 2021 to March 2022, the average cost of a data breach in healthcare was over $10 million, up from $9.23 Thus, protecting EHRs is crucial to avoid data breaches from hackers.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Security experts have discovered an online, unprotected database that stores the personal data of 80 million American households. Ran Locar and Noam Rotem of vpnMentor discovered the database, adding that they believe it is the first time a breach of this size has included such detailed information.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Monster.com was the victim of a data breach caused by an exposed web server, but failed to inform users about the incident. The server held the resumes of job applicants spanning 2014 and 2017, and included private information such as phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses and prior work experience.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

In a blog post , the company announced news that the data breach may have happened several years ago, but that it was only recently alerted to the cyberattack. Since 2013, we have made significant upgrades and improvements to our systems, security protocols, password security and database.

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Fintech News

MARCH 20, 2024

Sumsub, a global verification provider, is addressing the sharp increase in fraud networks in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with its enhanced Fraud Prevention Solution. The solution leverages a unique database for identifying and tracking fraudsters, offering a multi-layered approach to simplify decision-making and minimise false positives.

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JULY 4, 2018

Following the massive data breach at Equifax last year, the cybersecurity sector has flourished – and so have some of the investments that track the industry. Beyond the fund, shares in companies such as Fortinet have risen astronomically: That company’s stock, for example, has jumped 66 percent since the Equifax breach.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. In other news, in an attack on Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin , hacker group ShinyHunters leaked the private information of over 325,000 users, Inc42 reported.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

A database of nearly a quarter-million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok public profiles that was held by a now-shuttered company called Deep Social has made its way onto the Dark Web, The Next Web reported on Thursday (Aug. The news site attributed information about the data exposure to researcher Bob Diachenko of security firm Comparitech.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Equifax , the credit scoring company embroiled in a 2017 data breach scandal, disclosed news on Thursday (March 1) that has identified 2.4 million consumers by referencing other information in proprietary company records that the hackers didn’t steal and by tapping the resources of an outside data provider. million U.S.

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JULY 30, 2019

Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. The documents said Thompson accessed the data through a “misconfiguration” of a firewall on a web application. . Capital One revealed the massive data breach in a news release on July 29, 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Chegg , a technology giant specializing in textbook rental, suffered a data breach affecting around 40 million customers. The breach, which happened in April but was only discovered a week ago, was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Navionics , an Italian company that manufactures electronic navigational charts for boating, was the victim of customer data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records. The 19 gigabyte database contained more than 260,000 records, including customer names and email addresses.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Virgin Media announced Thursday (March 5) that the personal details of 900,000 customers had been accessed by a third party as the company left a marketing database unsecured for months, according to the Financial Times. The breach was one of the largest in the U.K. as of late due to the sheer volume of customers affected.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At some point in 2013, cybercriminals made off with the records of more than 1 billion users, including names, birth dates, phone numbers, passwords that were encrypted in an easily broken manner, security questions and backup email addresses used to reset lost passwords. What happened to all that data for three years?

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MAY 19, 2020

The Security Service of Ukraine is reportedly holding a hacker for allegedly selling a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, CoinDesk reported. Meanwhile, BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Social networking site VK.com is the latest victim in a string of targeted data breaches that have hit a host of other social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace. The stolen database contains full names, email addresses and passwords, as well as locations and phone numbers in some cases.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

The fines stem from data breaches against the company that came in 2016. the fine was levied by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against Uber for nearly $491,000, while the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined the company nearly $679,000. In addition, data on 82,000 drivers based in the U.K. Within the U.K.,

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JULY 25, 2019

Researcher Jeremiah Fowler first discovered an accessible database that was eventually revealed to be owned by Jana Bank and included sensitive customer data including Voter ID, driver’s license, passport, PAN Card, transaction, email, username and other information, part of the bank’s Know Your Customer verification database.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. About five years ago, the company started moving its data to the cloud. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was a former employee of Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. “We

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