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Companies with inadequate data privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to suffer a data breach than those with the highest-ranked privacy practices and will face fines seven times larger than companies with the best scores in the event of a data breach. Privacy issues Companies with the lowest privacy scores lost 600% more records than high-scoring companies.
There's a direct correlation between a company's poor privacy practices and the likelihood of a data breach, according to a report from the data privacy platform Osano, The Osano Data Privacy and Data Breach Link. Businesses with poor privacy practices are 80% more apt to experience a data breach.
A breach in Twitter's security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the worst attacks in recent years and may shake trust in a platform politicians and CEOs use to communicate with the public, experts said Thursday. Cybersecurity experts say such a breach could have dire consequences since the attackers were tweeting from verified, globally influential accounts with millions of followers.
Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers has revealed a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 million of its users. "As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020," the online marketplace notes.
Bleeping Computer is in touch with the data breach broker: a "Known and reputable" broker who's selling databases, all of which contain different data types but all of which include usernames and hashed passwords. Home Chef, a meal delivery service, confirmed a data breach two weeks after a hacker group named Shiny Hunters listed a database of 8 million customer records on a dark web marketplace.
Global lockdowns from COVID-19 have resulted in far fewer fraudsters willing or able to visit retail stores to use their counterfeit cards, and the decreased demand has severely depressed prices in the underground for purloined card data. Gemini's latest find - a 10-month-long card breach at dozens of Chicken Express locations throughout Texas and other southern states that the fast-food chain first publicly acknowledged today after being contacted by this author - saw an estimated 165,000 cards stolen from eatery locations recently go on sale at one of the dark web's largest cybercrime bazaars.
1Password is launching a first-of-its-kind domain breach report. Now, companies using 1Password's enterprise password manager can swiftly identify compromised accounts and take action to protect the enterprise by alerting users to create new secure passwords generated via 1Password.
Breach protection solutions provider Cynet on Monday announced that it has raised $18 million in a Series B+ funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to $38 million. Cynet previously raised $13 million in a Series B funding round in June 2018.
A data breach has impacted Maine State Police's information sharing database for federal, state and local law enforcement officials, the agency confirmed late Friday. State police say they were notified on June 20 by Netsential that a data breach may have included information from the Maine Information and Analysis Center, or MIAC. The agency has contracted the Houston, Texas-based company, which provides web hosting services to hundreds of law enforcement and government agencies across the country, since 2017.
Reports emerged earlier this week that the Minneapolis police department had been breached by hacktivist group Anonymous. Security expert Troy Hunt debunked the reports, however.