Scammers in London posed as staff members at the Ritz Hotel to steal credit card data from customers staying at the hotel. The Ritz is currently investigating the data breach, which occurred earlier …
SANS Institute Phishing Attack Leads to Theft of 28,000 Records
The SANS Institute was the victim of a phishing attack that lead to hundreds of emails from an internal account being forwarded to an unknown third party. The emails contained roughly 28,000 records …
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Capital One fined $80M by regulators over 2019 data breach, agrees to improvements
Capital One Financial Corporation has agreed to enter a consent order with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and pay an $80 million dollar fine for a data breach that occurred in …
Havenly Breach Hits Over 1.3 Million Accounts
Havenly, an interior design, and decor company have become the latest company to suffer from a serious data breach. Well-known dark web trader and vendor ShinyHunters posted the data of nearly 1.4 …
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Promo Data Breach Hits 14.6 Million User Accounts
Earlier this week, an Israeli marketing video firm called Promo announced a major data breach in which 14 million accounts were impacted. The Israeli company revealed in an online notice that customer …
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US Digital Bank Dave Admits Customer Data Breach
A US-based fintech giant has publicly released a statement detailing a data breach the company suffered after researchers discovered a malicious database selling users' personal information. The …
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Twilio Security Incident Shows Danger of Misconfigured S3 Buckets
A cloud communications platform, Twilio, has publicized a security incident in which attackers were able to gain access to sensitive data due to a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket. According to …
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Data breaches decline 33% in the first half of 2020
According to research conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), publicly reported US data breaches have declined by 33% in the first half of 2020. Compared to the first half of 2019, …
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A Popular Study Tool Accidentally Exposed Millions Of Student Records
A database was discovered by vpnMentor researchers that included the private information of over a million students. The database was improperly secured, leaving the data publicly accessible. …
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Domestic Abuse Victims Exposed in Cloud Misconfiguration
A developer at Aspire News, an application run by US non-profit When Georgia Smiled, misconfigured an AWS bucket that resulted in personal information of domestic abuse victims being exposed. …
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