Sentences with phrase «stolen in data breaches»

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American retailer Target, which opened stores across Canada in 2013, experienced a severe security breach in late November, with data connected to 40 million credit and debit cards stolen.

Personal data was stolen from hundreds of millions of Yahoo users in the December 2014 breach attributed to Russian hackers.

Also this week, hackers breached a community college in the Los Angeles area and demanded a $ 28,000 ransom to keep from destroying data from the school that they had stolen.

A senior Yahoo executive addressed a massive security incident on Wednesday, offering additional details about a breach that saw hackers steal personal data from more than 500 million customer accounts in late 2014.

Target Corp's unprecedented breach saw hackers steal at least 40 million payment card numbers and 70 million other pieces of customer data in 2013.

In October, the tech giant revealed it had underestimated by billions the number of people affected by a 2013 data breach (already the world's largest), in which thieves stole names, emails, phone numbers, and morIn October, the tech giant revealed it had underestimated by billions the number of people affected by a 2013 data breach (already the world's largest), in which thieves stole names, emails, phone numbers, and morin which thieves stole names, emails, phone numbers, and more.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

Uber Technologies Inc. has reportedly paid hackers to delete scores of private data stolen from the company in a security breach that was concealed for over...

«If, in the future, new means are developed to misuse the fingerprint data, the government will provide additional information to individuals whose fingerprints may have been stolen in this breach,» OPM said.

Yahoo confirmed last month that data «associated with at least 500 million user accounts» had been stolen in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever.

Uber announced on Nov. 21 that the personal data of 57 million users, including 600,000 drivers in the United States, were stolen in a breach that occurred in October 2016, and that it paid the hacker $ 100,000 to destroy the information.

User data from more than 1 billion accounts was stolen in August 2013, according to a Yahoo statement Wednesday, the second major breach the company has disclosed in the past three months.

The additional release will likely ratchet up the pressure on the company, which has been quiet about exactly how much and what sort of data was stolen in a breach in July.

Data stolen in the breach is now being sold online, including sexual preferences,.

Whatever the reason, student loan debt is obviously a legitimate source of stress and worry, because consumers are more concerned about repaying their student loans than having their data stolen in a breach — which can have troubling ramifications.

We're not even one - third of the way through this year and we've already seen Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify on Capitol Hill regarding Cambridge Analytica getting their hands on 87 million Facebook users» private data, in addition to 800,000 payment cards getting breached via travel website Orbitz, and 5 million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor having their credit or debit card data stolen.

Interestingly, student debtors were more concerned about their personal data getting breached through a site like Facebook when compared to their financial information getting stolen in an instance like the Orbitz credit card hack.

As discussed in our previous chapter on data breach nightmares, they have taken a variety of forms, ranging from phishing scams and social engineering attacks (e.g., using e-mail to trick attorneys to visit a malicious web site or to be lured into fraudulent collection schemes for foreign «clients») to sophisticated technical exploits that result in long term intrusions into a law firm's network to steal information.

Portland, OR: Uber is facing a data breach class action lawsuit filed by a resident of Portland who alleges the ride share company was negligent in its safeguarding of customer data, resulting in a data breach in October 2016, in which hackers accessed and stole data from 57 million Uber customers and drivers.

In addition to reporting data breaches to criminal enforcement authorities, customers may have other avenues to hold Target accountable for not preventing thieves from stealing personal credit card data.

Data can be stolen, as I mentioned, in much more troubling ways through computer networks versus physical breaches.

Data breaches have hit the news already in 2017 with high profile cases such as mobile phone company Three — where an employee's password was stolen in March and the data of 200,000 customers compromiData breaches have hit the news already in 2017 with high profile cases such as mobile phone company Three — where an employee's password was stolen in March and the data of 200,000 customers compromidata of 200,000 customers compromised.

In case you're not following the news about the latest data breach, a hacker stole the records of approximately 15 million T - Mobile customers.

Afraid that your information has been stolen in a major data breach?

Did you have your identity stolen in the Equifax data breach?

If your information has been stolen (hello Equifax data breach of 2017), scammers can use it to file a tax return in your name and pocket your refund for themselves.

My own data was stolen in the T - Mobile / Experian breach in October.

The biggest risk that comes from a stolen email address is that you or someone you know might be targeted by phishing attacks, which accounted for 20 percent of recorded data breach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations repdata breach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations rbreach incidents in this year's annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations repData Breach Investigations rBreach Investigations report.

80 million records of current and former insureds, as well as applicants, were stolen in the Anthem data breach.

While Warner's letter addresses some of Uber's straightforward cybersecurity failings, it also digs into the deeper question of how the company covered up its breach by paying its hackers to destroy the data they stole, including what kind of «assurances» the hackers provided to the company to demonstrate that they did in fact destroy the data in question.

Before we go too deep down the rabbit hole, let's reiterate that the data Cambridge Analytica gathered to try to target more than 50 million Facebook users in the United States was not stolen from Facebook or removed after some security flaw or «data breach.»

Responding to a notice last month from the Centre, asking Facebook whether personal information of any Indians was stolen as part of its global data breach involving UK data firm Cambridge Analytica, the US - based social media company on Thursday admitted that about 5.62 lakh users in India were «potentially affected».

Uber Technologies Inc. has reportedly paid hackers to delete scores of private data stolen from the company in a security breach that was concealed for over...

Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted passwords.

In less than six months, Yahoo admitted that its security was breached twice, with hackers stealing data for hundreds of millions of users.

It's not clear how the data was stolen, but in payment card breaches, attackers typically push card - scraping malware onto point - of - sale terminals.

Data breaches in large companies — where millions of records are stolen — make splashy headlines, but smaller, independent agencies aren't immune from data breacData breaches in large companies — where millions of records are stolen — make splashy headlines, but smaller, independent agencies aren't immune from data breacdata breaches.