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Tag: 22ndcenturydatasecurity
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Royal Mail “Cyber Incident” Closes Dispatch To Overseas Destinations
Britain’s postal service said it was hit Wednesday by a “cyber incident” that is temporarily preventing it from sending letters or parcels to other countries. Royal Mail reported on its website that international export services were “experiencing severe service disruption” without providing further details. “We are temporarily unable to dispatch items to overseas destinations,” the… Read more
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91% of IT Pros Have Reported An Cyber Incident Due to Their Supply Chain
In a study conducted in the fall of 2021 by CyberRisk Alliance Business Intelligence, 91% of 250 U.S.-based IT and cybersecurity decision makers and influencers surveyed reported a security incident related to a third-party partner in the past year. Fifteen percent reported 20 or more partner-related incidents. One senior IT engineer in the insurance industry… Read more
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LastPass Hit With Lawsuit Over Last Years Breach
An August data breach at password manager LastPass just keeps getting worse for the company. First it admitted the attacker made off with customer data in a December update, and now it’s been served with a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of “woefully insufficient” security practices. LastPass initially said the incident involved the theft of… Read more
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Flying Blue – Air France & KLM Loyalty Program Suffers Data Breach
Air France and KLM have informed Flying Blue customers that some of their personal information was exposed after their accounts were breached. Flying Blue is a loyalty program allowing clients of multiple airlines, including Air France, KLM, Transavia, Aircalin, Kenya Airways, and TAROM, to exchange loyalty points for various rewards. “Our security operations teams have detected… Read more
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Crypto Losses Amount to $3.7 Billion in 2022
Losses of cryptocurrency assets due to hacks rose to $3.7 billion last year, a 58 percent increase over the $2.3 billion that cybercriminals stole from investors and exchanges in 2021, according to a report released Thursday by Immunefi, a web3 security testing platform. The firm’s analysis found that hacks accounted for more than 95 percent of… Read more
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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