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U.S. government services contractor Maximus has disclosed a data breach warning that hackers stole the personal data of 8 to 11 million people during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks.The Clop ransomware gang added Maximus to its dark web data leak site yesterday as part of a big batch of 70 new victims, all having been breached using the MOVEit zero-day flaw.
IBM released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, showing the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023 - an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last 3 years. Data breaches disclosed by the attacker cost nearly $1 million more on average compared to studied organizations that identified the breach themselves.
Data breach costs rose to $4.45 million per incident in 2023, IBM found in its annual Cost of a Data Breach report. Average data breach cost rose to $4.45 million per incident.
Every time a breach occurs, the impacted organization's response differs from the last. In this Help Net Security video, Rodman Ramezanian, Global Cloud Threat Lead at Skyhigh Security, discusses what we should do - and not do - in the wake of a data breach.
Colorado State University has confirmed that the Clop ransomware operation stole sensitive personal information of current and former students and employees during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks. Colorado State University is a public research university with nearly 28,000 students and 6,000 academic and administrative staff members, operating on an endowment of $558,000,000.
Gaming gear company Razer reacted to recent rumors of a massive data breach with a short statement on Twitter, letting users know that they started an investigation into the matter. Information about a potential data breach at the company emerged on Saturday, when someone posted on a hacker forum that they had stolen the source code, database, encryption keys, and backend access logins for Razer.com, the company's main website.
Gaming gear company Razer reacted to recent rumors of a massive data breach with a short statement on Twitter, letting users know that they started an investigation into the matter.Information about a potential data breach at the company emerged on Saturday, when someone posted on a hacker forum that they had stolen the source code, database, encryption keys, and backend access logins for Razer.com, the company's main website.
Microsoft has denied the claims of the so-called hacktivists "Anonymous Sudan" that they breached the company's servers and stole credentials for 30 million customer accounts.Yesterday, the hacktivists alleged that they had "Successfully hacked Microsoft" and "Accessed a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails, and passwords."
Roid-based phone monitoring app LetMeSpy has disclosed a security breach that allowed an unauthorized third-party to steal sensitive data associated with thousands of Android users. "As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to email addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts," LetMeSpy said in an announcement on its website, noting the incident took place on June 21, 2023.
Siemens Energy has confirmed that data was stolen during the recent Clop ransomware data-theft attacks using a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform.Today, Clop listed Siemens Energy on their data leak site, indicating that data was stolen during a breach on the company.