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560 million records stolen from Ticketmaster
June 4, 2024
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Experts are expecting a wave of identity theft: the parent company of Ticketmaster had to report that hackers had lightened its systems by 560 million records of customer data. Now 1,3 terabytes of data are for sale on the dark web. The data from Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment had already been offered for sale as a data set on the Darknet, but there was no report yet about the hack by the ShinyHunters group. Now the company was forced to report the data loss under American law and publish a corresponding report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as...

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Data leak: Dell customer data probably on the dark web
11 Maj 2024
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Dell is currently informing its customers via email that there has been an incident involving customer data. The news sounds harmless and Dell sees no risk for its customers. However, the database was already on the dark web and was advertised there as containing 49 million records by customers. The message sent by Dell to its customers reads quite unspectacular. In the letter, Dell asserts that it takes data protection very seriously and would therefore like to inform customers about the theft of a database. The hackers would have name, address and the type of...

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Researchers find 26 billion access data on the web
27 January 2024
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A package with 26 billion data records containing access data appeared online. It is intended to contain user access data from many companies such as LinkedIn, Adobe or Dropbox, as well as from other companies and organizations. It remains to be seen whether the data is dangerous or current. The numbers sound gigantic: 12 terabytes of information contain 26 billion data sets with access data and 3.800 folders with sorted information. Bob Dyachenko, cybersecurity researcher and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com, along with the Cybernews team, discovered the billions of exposed records on an open instance whose owner is likely…

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Lockbit steals 700 GB of data from MCNA with 9 million customers
June 2, 2023
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MCNA Dental, North America's largest dental insurer, had to notify all of its nearly 9 million customers that 700GB of data was lost. LockBit probably captured a lot of personal customer data. As an apology, MCNA Dental offers all customers a 12-month Identity Theft Protection and Credit Monitoring Service through IDX at no charge. According to company information, LockBit hacked into MCNA Dental's systems on February 26th. It was probably not until March 06th that the hackers were found in the network and countermeasures were initiated. By then, the APT group LockBit had already found everything and transported the data away….

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Stolen credentials are the biggest security risk
June 21, 2022
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The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2022 (DBIR) examined 23.896 security incidents and 5.212 confirmed data breaches. He comes to one conclusion: Leaked and stolen access data are still the greatest security risk for companies. From the analysis of the more than 100-page report, Patrick McBride, Chief Marketing Officer of Beyond Identity, has compiled the most important figures and offers tips on how companies can protect themselves from data leaks. Top 5 Statistics from the Verizon DBIR Stolen Passwords: The most popular method for attackers to steal a company's assets,…

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