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Category: Founders
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Deezer, Music Streaming Service In France Has Over 200 Million Users Info Stolen
France-based music-streaming platform Deezer has admitted being hit with a data breach that potentially compromised the information of over 220 million users. It estimates that 229,037,936 people’s data was compromised in an incident dating back nearly three years. The leaked information included users’ dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, IP addresses, names, spoken languages and/or usernames. Personal… Read more
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Has Twitter Just Had the Largest Data Leak Ever? 235 Million?
A Twitter database containing about 235 million users has been exposed on an online hacker forum in what is shaping to be one of the biggest data leaks yet recorded. Data leaks of such scale are often possible due to system flaws that allow harvesting information at scale, a practice known as ‘scraping.’ The data dump… Read more
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How To Claim Your T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement
Last summer communications giant T-Mobile agreed to a $350 million settlement package to resolve a number of class-action suits related to a massive data breach within the company. More than 76 million Americans were affected by the breach which saw hackers steal the personal information of huge numbers of current, former and prospective clients. “Like every company,… Read more
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Toyota Hit By Data Breach in India
A data breach at Toyota Motor’s Indian business might have exposed some customers’ personal information, it said on Sunday. Toyota India said it has notified the relevant Indian authorities of the data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Kirloskar Group. “Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has been notified by one of… Read more
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PBS Hit By Ransomware
A ransomware group linked to a number of recent hacks said on Thursday that it was behind a cyberattack on the Iowa branch of the Public Broadcasting Service. In the early hours of November 20, Iowa PBS became aware of suspicious activity on its network systems. Little is known regarding information about the incident, as… Read more
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Telecom Malaysia Suffers a Data Breach
Telekom Malaysia has confirmed that a data breach, which it became aware of on Dec 28, affects its Unifi Mobile users, both individual customers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In a statement, the company said that its investigations revealed that 250,284 accounts were affected, exposing customers’ names, phone numbers, and emails. The company claimed… Read more
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Canada’s Largest Children’s Hospital Victimized by Ransomware Attack
A ransomware attack has delayed lab and imaging results at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and could lead to longer wait times, the hospital said Thursday, noting that some of its systems could be offline for weeks. The hospital said it was unable to provide details about the nature of the attack, calling it an… Read more
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Indian Railways Suffers Data Breach of 30 Million Users Info
Indian Railways reportedly suffered a cyberattack on December 27. The data breach led to the railways losing sensitive data of 30 million people who have booked tickets. Stolen data include personal information of the people such as email id, mobile number, age, address, and gender. According to the attackers, the data also contains several government… Read more
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Biden Signs Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act – Helix22 Already Offers Quantum Ready Encryption
President Biden last Wednesday signed legislation to encourage federal government agencies to adopt technology that is protected from decryption by quantum computing. The Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act earlier this month progressed through the Senate after companion legislation passed the House in July. It is co-sponsored by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. The newly enacted legislation… Read more
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BetMGM Suffers a Data Breach
GM Resorts-owned online sports betting company BetMGM confirmed suffering a data breach the same day hackers offered to sell a database containing the information of 1.5 million BetMGM customers. In a statement posted on its website on December 21, BetMGM said “patron records were obtained in an unauthorized manner”. The company said the compromised information… Read more