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Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. "There has been no breach of Telstra's systems," Narelle Devine, the company's chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, said.

Hard-to-control collaboration, complex SaaS permissions, and risky misconfigurations - such as admin accounts without multi-factor authentication - have left a dangerous amount of cloud data exposed to insider threats and cyberattacks, according to Varonis. For the report, researchers analyzed nearly 10 billion cloud objects across a random sample of data risk assessments performed at more than 700 companies worldwide.

Optus confirmed yesterday that 2.1 million customers had government identification numbers compromised during a cyberattack last month. In an investigation, Optus confirmed that a total of 2.1 million customers had valid or expired ID document numbers exposed to the hackers.

TD Bank has disclosed a data breach affecting an undisclosed number of customers whose personal information was stolen by a former employee and used to conduct financial fraud.TD Bank is one of the largest banks in the United States by deposits, operating 1,220 branches and employing over 26,000 people.

All of it I've never spent more than 10 seconds authorising myself to get into something when multifactor has popped up, and I can spare 10 seconds for the safety and security of not just my company's data, but our employees and our customers data. CHET. Well, the precise law in the United States, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, is very specific about the fact that you're breaching that Act when you exceed your authority or you have unauthorised access to a system.

A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report shared by security firm CloudSEK with The Hacker News.

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Revolut, the fintech company behing the popular banking app of the same name, has suffered a data breach, which has been followed by phishing attacks aimed at taking advantage of the situation. A few days later, some users received an alert via email saying their account was affected following a cyberattack.

American Airlines has notified customers of a recent data breach after attackers compromised an undisclosed number of employee email accounts and gained access to sensitive personal information. American Airlines discovered the breach on July 5th, immediately secured the impacted email accounts, and hired a cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate the security incident.

Empress EMS, a New York-based emergency response and ambulance service provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information. According to the notification, the company suffered a ransomware attack on July 14, 2022.