Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Breaches

Amazon confirms employee data breach after vendor hack (bleepingcomputer.com)
Amazon confirmed a data breach involving employee information after data allegedly stolen during the May 2023 MOVEit attacks was leaked on a hacking forum.

Data Breaches, Amazon, Cybersecurity, Hacking

5 points by mikece 10 days ago | 0 comments

Hackers are stealing tickets from Ticketmaster customers' accounts (businessinsider.com)
Hackers are breaking into some Ticketmaster users' accounts and transferring tickets to themselves.

Cybersecurity, Ticketmaster, Data Breaches, Hacking

9 points by LinuxBender 12 days ago | 0 comments

Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts (battleda.sh)

Cybersecurity, Gaming, Data Breaches

902 points by mooreds 16 days ago | 154 comments

How the British Airways' breach kickstarted today's web security challenge (baways.com)
It happened between August 21 and September 5 2018. During those 16 days, a sophisticated cyberattack hit the British Airways website and app. It exposed the personal data of roughly 300,000 to 500,000 customers.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, British Airways

50 points by s-mon 16 days ago | 36 comments

Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500k Ohio residents (techcrunch.com)
The City of Columbus, Ohio’s state capital, has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of 500,000 residents during a July ransomware attack.

Ransomware, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Ohio, Government

4 points by pseudolus 17 days ago | 0 comments

Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know (theregister.com)
At the start of September, Transport for London was hit by a major cyber attack.

Cybersecurity, Public Sector, Data Breaches

9 points by rntn 17 days ago | 0 comments

Almost 7000 Government data breaches over last ten years (rte.ie)
There have been 6,885 data breaches across Government departments over the last ten years.

Government, Data Breaches, Security

5 points by austinallegro 22 days ago | 0 comments

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects 100M – largest US health breach (techcrunch.com)
More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.

Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Data Breaches, Ransomware

13 points by blackeyeblitzar 24 days ago | 5 comments

UnitedHealth Ransomware Attack Exposed 100M People (pcmag.com)
Data on over 100 million people was exposed because of the ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year, according to a document from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.

Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Data Breaches, Ransomware

5 points by mostcallmeyt 26 days ago | 1 comments

UnitedHealth says data of 100M stolen in Change Healthcare hack (bleepingcomputer.com)
UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years.

Data Breaches, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, UnitedHealth

76 points by sandwichsphinx 27 days ago | 36 comments

Change Healthcare hack affects over 100M, largest-ever US healthcare data breach (techcrunch.com)
More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.

Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Data Breaches, Ransomware

8 points by croes 27 days ago | 0 comments

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens (bleepingcomputer.com)
The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Internet Archive, Zendesk

509 points by vladyslavfox 32 days ago | 338 comments

Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines (digipres.club)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Privacy

294 points by NotPractical 36 days ago | 162 comments

Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum (bleepingcomputer.com)
Cisco has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is investigating recent claims that it suffered a breach after a threat actor began selling allegedly stolen data on a hacking forum.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Hacking, Cisco

8 points by CKMo 37 days ago | 0 comments

Billions of Gmail users at risk from sophisticated new AI hack (tomsguide.com)

AI, Cybersecurity, Gmail, Data Breaches, Privacy

27 points by derwiki 39 days ago | 16 comments

Casio confirms customer data stolen in a ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)
Casio now confirms it suffered a ransomware attack earlier this month, warning that the personal and confidential data of employees, job candidates, and some customers was also stolen.

Ransomware Attacks, Data Breaches, Security, Technology, Cybercrime

12 points by jayantbhawal 41 days ago | 2 comments

National Public Data files bankruptcy, admits 'millions' affected (theregister.com)
The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting "hundreds of millions" of people were potentially affected in one of the largest information leaks of the year.

Data Breaches, Privacy, Business, Bankruptcy

16 points by pseudolus 41 days ago | 6 comments

Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers (techcrunch.com)
Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest asset managers, has confirmed that over 77,000 customers had personal information compromised during an August data breach, including Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.

Data Breaches, Cybersecurity, Finance, Privacy

10 points by marban 42 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese hack of US ISPs shows Apple is right about backdoors for law enforcement (9to5mac.com)
It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to access systems run by three of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US.

Cybersecurity, US Government, China, Hacking, Data Breaches

8 points by hacsky 42 days ago | 1 comments

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31M users (bleepingcomputer.com)
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Internet Archive

36 points by zerojames 43 days ago | 7 comments

Internet Archive: Security breach alert (theverge.com)

Internet Archive, Security, Data Breaches

1091 points by ewenjo 43 days ago | 605 comments

MoneyGram confirms hack: customer data have leaked (mashable.com)
On Monday, MoneyGram confirmed that it had been targeted in an cyberattack, resulting in an unauthorized party gaining access to their company's internal systems.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Finance, MoneyGram

4 points by enjoyyourlife 44 days ago | 1 comments

Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems (securityaffairs.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Telecom, Hacking, Government Surveillance

18 points by janandonly 44 days ago | 2 comments

MoneyGram says hacker stole customers' personal information and transaction data (techcrunch.com)
U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers’ personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Money Transfers, Financial Services

43 points by gnabgib 44 days ago | 22 comments

Chinese Cyberattack Is a Disaster of Unimaginable Proportions (hotair.com)
Using a security loophole that allows the US government access to anybody's electronic traffic, Chinese hackers gained access to an unknown quantity (perhaps all) of internet traffic on American networks. In an exclusive report in Saturday's Wall Street Journal the secret breach was revealed.

Cybersecurity, China, US Government, Hacking, Data Breaches

10 points by miley_cyrus 45 days ago | 2 comments

Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230k Comcast customers (theverge.com)
A data breach has exposed the names, addresses, social security numbers, and birthdates of more than 237,700 Comcast customers.

Data Breaches, Cybersecurity, Comcast, Privacy

19 points by mfiguiere 45 days ago | 11 comments

A quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector (theregister.com)
Comcast says data on 237,703 of its customers was in fact stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector it was using, contrary to previous assurances it was given that it was unaffected by that intrusion.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Comcast, Debt Collection

47 points by rntn 47 days ago | 11 comments

Big names among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks (theregister.com)
Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope of stealing shoppers' payment card info as they order stuff online.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Retail, E-commerce

3 points by LinuxBender 48 days ago | 0 comments

Always have a comma in your password, if part of a leak it will break the CSV (toot.cafe)

Security, Data Breaches, Passwords

77 points by edward 49 days ago | 48 comments

T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches (arstechnica.com)
T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million fine and improve its security in a settlement over a series of data breaches over three years that affected tens of millions of customers.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, T-Mobile, Legal Settlements, Fines

60 points by pseudolus 51 days ago | 22 comments