PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A recent data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers, reports said on Friday (Nov. Under FCC rules, telecommunication firms are required to promptly notify users when there is a breach. . The company found that in 2018, breaches cost a company $1.23 million on average for enterprises.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

The largest public data breach ever has been discovered, according to Gizmodo. The breach is just one data batch of at least six more, collected by someone trying to sell the stolen info, which amounts to almost 1 terabyte of stolen information. Users of HIBP can enter their email into a query and see if it’s been compromised.

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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. Conclusion The ramifications of this breach extend beyond immediate security concerns. As the situation unfolds, LAUSD and Snowflake Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

An Indian web system — used to mark attendance for government workers, which records names, photos and unique Aadhaar numbers — was easily compromised, and led to the access of private information for thousands of workers, reports showed. . The UIDAI, for its part, calls breaches “fake news,” and simply denies evidence of any weaknesses.

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The Payments Association

MAY 28, 2025

Merchants no longer need to handle or store sensitive payment data, dramatically reducing both their compliance burden and vulnerability to breaches. Even if a database containing tokens were compromised, the tokens themselves would be useless outside their designated environments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We must give credit to the criminals who engineered the recently disclosed data breach that could end up impacting some 500 million guests of Marriott International. Breach Aftermath. Here’s the challenge: Consumers are almost certainly becoming numb to these types of breaches, secure in the knowledge that banks will have their backs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

Another day, another massive database of stolen data discovered. Security researchers have discovered a massive database containing some 560 million emails and passwords that belongs to … someone. The database itself, however, is not a mystery any longer since the Kromtech Security Research Center found it.

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PYMNTS

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. The marketing and data aggregation firm was the subject of a data breach in which customer information ended up on the internet for hackers or anyone else to view.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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. The Marriott breach follows the Yahoo breach that affected roughly three billion accounts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

No user funds have been compromised in the attack. The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. Other reports, however, show only leaked information of 161,487 of the exchange’s users, noted Cointelegraph, citing BleepingComputer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

KFC is the latest company to report a hack , with the bad guys breaching its Colonel’s Club loyalty program. The report noted that KFC is hoping to limit the impact of the breach because it acted quickly to remedy the situation. KFC reportedly only found 30 accounts that were compromised so far.

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Segpay

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, the implementation of strong identity management systems must align with data protection regulations, so that the collection, storage, and processing of data for identification purposes does not compromise individuals’ privacy. If a breach occurs, identity data, once compromised, is hard to restore.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

All user passwords were reset at web hosting company Hostinger after it discovered a customer database was hacked, reports said on Sunday (Aug. The breach included the company’s API database with about 14 million customer usernames, email addresses and passwords out of a possible 29 million customers. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

7, the media has been abuzz over the security breach at credit scoring company Equifax and the vast number of consequences the incident set in motion, from the resignation of the company’s CEO to lawsuits filed by state Attorneys General across the U.S. EDGAR Database. Since Sept. Yahoo Litigation Moves Forward.

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Segpay

OCTOBER 22, 2024

High-profile data breaches have made the risks of storing user IDs clear, with victims suffering from identity theft and financial loss. Blockchain technology offers a solution to these concerns, enabling age verification without collecting or storing sensitive data in a centralized database.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

typing speed, location data), with authoritative databases or records. Proper digital identity verification tools help protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and security breaches. Biometric data is very private and sensitive to cybercrime and any security breach of this data has serious consequences.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

data protection authority will hit Marriott with a £99 million ($123 million) fine for a breach that exposed the data of up to 383 million guests. Last year the hotel company revealed that guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. We deeply regret this incident happened.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2017

million customers may have been impacted by its massive data breach. Bloomberg , citing the company, reported that with this latest disclosure the number of people potentially impacted by the breach is now at 145.5 To each and every person affected by this breach, I am deeply sorry that this occurred.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At least 12 Capital One cybersecurity employees have exited since the breach due to security issues left hanging by Johnson and other executives, sources told the WSJ. Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

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

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 18, 2024

These requirements’ main objective is to safeguard sensitive cardholder information and mitigate data breaches. For instance, web servers, database servers, and DNS should each be implemented on their own separate servers. With the impending retirement of PCI DSS v3.2.1 Requirement and Testing Procedures 2.2.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. Yahoo’s Breach Bungles. The latest data breach is double the size of the other one, which has delayed the closing of the deal.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

According to Onapsis, attackers accessing the administrative process “will allow the attacker to manage (read/modify/delete) every database record or file in the system,” and could have effects on financial privacy compliance, ARN reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. Thousands of breaches. billion records across more than 5,100 attacks — meaning through the first nine months of the year (the estimate as of this writing), the number of breaches grew by 33 percent. We can slice and dice the breaches in any number of ways. Size and Scope.

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PYMNTS

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. million accounts.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This multi-modal approach ensures that even if one fingerprint is compromised, the system is still secure. These systems provide an added layer of security, ensuring that even if one method is compromised, the others stay intact. A biometric trait, unlike a password, cannot be easily changed if compromised.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throughout 2017, the total number of enterprise records breached every day, hour, minute, and second each doubled from the year prior according to Breach Level Index (BLI). Data from the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that the attack-paths hackers take from initial compromise to final data breach are shrinking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

The tokenized credentials cannot be stolen or compromised, which makes digital payments safer for consumers and merchants. As Johnson told Webster, merchants have databases of cards on file, and Visa’s token services help secure those cards, lowering fraud and breach risk while boosting authorization rates.

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Clearly Payments

MARCH 4, 2024

From large-scale data breaches to intricate schemes, fraudulent activities have left lasting marks on the financial landscape. Target Data Breach (2013) In the saga of payment processing fraud, few chapters loom as large as the Target data breach of 2013. Over 40 million credit and debit card accounts compromised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

One of Italy’s most well-known banks, UniCredit, said that it was going to start its own probe into the Capital One data breach, according to Reuters. . “On The data breach affected more than 100 million people, and the alleged perpetrator was quickly arrested. . Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thirty years later, I find their tagline a rather fitting metaphor for the Equifax data breach and the flurry of headlines made by everyone who now wants to take them — and their two credit reporting agency compadres, Experian and TransUnion — out to the regulatory woodshed. Since 2012, the CFPB’s consumer complaint database has collected 1.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

The company’s Compromised Identity Exchange Basic platform will enable eCommerce retailers to access valuable information concerning the risk of identity theft associated with a customer based on the number and types of data breaches the individual’s personal data has been compromised by.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The fallout continues to grow, with reports noting its slew of nonprofit and corporate customers have now been exposed to security threats as a result of data stolen in the Blackbaud breach. Cybersecurity experts at Breach Clarity now peg the number of clients impacted at 136. Blackbaud's data breach isn't unique, per se.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The massive data breach revealed by Marriott last week might hurt its customers beyond the personal information that was stolen. On November 30, the company announced that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed due to a data breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it’s been the leaked emails of a major political candidate, massive security breaches from major companies like Yahoo and Dropbox or even the hacking of a U.S. bank regulator, information security has been a recurring headline in 2016. Taking away fraudsters’ rewards and incentives. They’ve gotten everyone on that list.”.

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