Latest Breach news

FCC wants telecom carriers to report data breaches faster

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to strengthen federal law enforcement and modernize breach notification requirements for telecommunications companies so that they notify customers of security breaches faster.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 06, 2023
- 01:11 PM
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Leading sports betting firm BetMGM discloses data breach

Leading sports betting company BetMGM disclosed a data breach after a threat actor stole personal information belonging to an undisclosed number of customers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 22, 2022
- 05:25 PM
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Lastpass: Hackers stole customer vault data in cloud storage breach

LastPass revealed today that attackers stole customer vault data after breaching its cloud storage earlier this year using information stolen during an August 2022 incident.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 22, 2022
- 04:12 PM
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DraftKings warns data of 67K people was exposed in account hacks

Sports betting company DraftKings revealed last week that more than 67,000 customers had their personal information exposed following a credential attack in November.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 19, 2022
- 12:57 PM
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CloudSEK claims it was hacked by another cybersecurity firm

Indian cybersecurity firm CloudSEK says a threat actor gained access to its Confluence server using stolen credentials for one of its employees' Jira accounts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 07, 2022
- 01:24 PM
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Amnesty International Canada breached by suspected Chinese hackers

Amnesty International's Canadian branch has disclosed a security breach detected in early October and linked by cybersecurity firm Secureworks, who investigated the incident, to a threat group likely sponsored by China.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 06, 2022
- 04:30 PM
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Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach

LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 30, 2022
- 04:24 PM
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Medibank warns customers their data was leaked by ransomware gang

Australian health insurance giant Medibank has warned customers that the ransomware group behind last month's breach has started to leak data stolen from its systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 09, 2022
- 11:43 AM
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Dropbox discloses breach after hacker stole 130 GitHub repositories

Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub accounts using employee credentials stolen in a phishing attack.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 01, 2022
- 05:15 PM
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Twilio discloses another hack from June, blames voice phishing

Cloud communications company Twilio disclosed a new data breach stemming from a June 2022 security incident where the same attackers behind the August hack accessed some customers' information.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 27, 2022
- 12:59 PM
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Dutch police arrest hacker who breached healthcare software vendor

The Dutch police have arrested a 19-year-old man in western Netherlands, suspected of breaching the systems of a healthcare software vendor in the country, and stealing tens of thousands of documents.
- Bill Toulas
- October 25, 2022
- 01:04 PM
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Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached

Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18, 2022
- 12:26 PM
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Fast Company says Executive Board member info was not stolen in attack

American business magazine Fast Company reached out to its Executive Board members this week to let them know their personal information was not stolen in a September 27 cyberattack that forced it to shut down its website.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 13, 2022
- 04:48 PM
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City of Tucson discloses data breach affecting over 123,000 people

The City of Tucson, Arizona, has disclosed a data breach affecting the personal information of more than 123,000 individuals.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 05, 2022
- 01:21 PM
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Russian retail chain 'DNS' confirms hack after data leaked online

Russian retail chain 'DNS' (Digital Network System) disclosed yesterday that they suffered a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of 16 million customers and employees.
- Bill Toulas
- October 03, 2022
- 02:35 PM
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Fired admin cripples former employer's network using old credentials

An IT system administrator of a prominent financial company based in Hawaii, U.S., used a pair of credentials that hadn't been invalidated after he was laid off to wreak havoc on his employer.
- Bill Toulas
- September 29, 2022
- 04:45 PM
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Auth0 warns that some source code repos may have been stolen

Authentication service provider and Okta subsidiary Auth0 has disclosed what it calls a "security event" involving some of its code repositories.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 28, 2022
- 02:03 PM
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LockBit ransomware builder leaked online by "angry developer"

The LockBit ransomware operation has suffered a breach, with an allegedly disgruntled developer leaking the builder for the gang's newest encryptor.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 21, 2022
- 02:07 PM
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Uber links breach to Lapsus$ group, blames contractor for hack

Uber believes the hacker behind last week's breach is affiliated with the Lapsus$ extortion group, known for breaching other high-profile tech companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 19, 2022
- 02:26 PM
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LastPass says hackers had internal access for four days

LastPass says the attacker behind the August security breach had internal access to the company's systems for four days until they were detected and evicted.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 16, 2022
- 03:30 PM
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