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U.S. educational nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse has disclosed a data breach affecting 890 schools using its services across the United States. According to the data breach notification letters, the data exposed in the attack varies for each affected individual.

Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident this week in which hackers "Briefly" obtained limited access to its internal systems."An unauthorized group briefly obtained limited access to an internal Air Canada system related to limited personal information of some employees and certain records," reads a statement published Wednesday, September 20th, on Air Canada's press website.

T-Mobile has denied suffering another data breach following Thursday night reports that a threat actor leaked a large database allegedly containing T-Mobile employees' data. The mobile carrier told BleepingComputer that the leaked data is believed to belong to an authorized retailer, which was breached earlier this year.

Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal information. The notification warns that the hacker gained unauthorized access to Pizza Hut Australia systems storing sensitive info for customers who made online orders, as well as partial financial data and encrypted account passwords.

Pizza Hut's Australian outpost has suffered a data breach. Yes, dear reader - that means the bad guys have seen a database of people who like pineapple on their pizzas.

The dreaded data breach is an outcome feared by companies of all sizes in today's threat landscape, largely due to the significant costs involved. Each year, IBM's eagerly anticipated Cost of a Data Breach Report seems to come with the bad news of an increase in data breach costs, and 2023 is no exception.

Software bug-tracking company Rollbar disclosed a data breach after unknown attackers hacked its systems in early August and gained access to customer access tokens.The security breach was discovered by Rollbar on September 6 when reviewing data warehouse logs showing that a service account was used to log into the cloud-based bug monitoring platform.

The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data to conduct targeted phishing attacks. This week, the Associated press warns that an old third-party-managed AP Stylebook site that was no longer in use was hacked between July 16 and July 22, 2023, allowing the data for 224 customers to be stolen.

According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the average cost of a data breach in Australia has grown by 32% in five years to AU $4.03 million. As the risk of data breach incidents rise, IT leaders are in a position to minimize the cost of a data breach by implementing DevSecOps, utilizing AI and automation, prioritizing incident response planning and testing, streamlining data breach discovery and taking out adequate cybersecurity insurance for when the worst happens.

Dymocks Booksellers is warning customers their personal information was exposed in a data breach after the company's database was shared on hacking forums.The company was informed that its customer data was stolen on September 6th, 2023, by Troy Hunt, the creator of the data breach notification service 'Have I Been Pwned', after a threat actor released it on a hacking forum.