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Average cost of data breach surpasses $4 million for many organizations. To create its "Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022," IBM Security commissioned Ponemon Institute to analyze 550 organizations hit by data breaches between March 2021 and March 2022.

Just under a year ago, the US arm of telecomms giant T-Mobile admitted to a data breach after personal information about its customers was offered for sale on an underground forum. At the time, VICE Magazine claimed to have communicated with the hacker behind the breach via online chat, and to have been offered "T-Mobile USA. Full customer info."

Virtual pet website Neopets has suffered a data breach leading to the theft of source code and a database containing the personal information of over 69 million members. Neopets is a popular website where members can own, raise, and play games with their virtual pets.

Comic reading platform Mangatoon has suffered a data breach that exposed information belonging to 23 million user accounts after a hacker stole it from an unsecured Elasticsearch database. This week, the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned added 23 million Mangatoon accounts to their platform.

Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties and stole 20GB of files. "The threat actor used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer. The threat actor did not impersonate any Marriott vendor."

Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties and stole 20GB of files. "The threat actor used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer. The threat actor did not impersonate any Marriott vendor."

Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties and stole 20GB of files. "The threat actor used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer. The threat actor did not impersonate any Marriott vendor."

Marriott Hotels has leaked data to attackers again and this time the culprits made off with 20GB of information, which reportedly included credit card info and internal company documents. The unnamed group behind the attack contacted privacy news site DataBreaches to share the news that it broke into a server at the Marriott hotel at Boston/Washington International Airport in Maryland late last month.

Data breach of NFT marketplace OpenSea may expose customers to phishing attacks. The breach was caused by an employee at Customer.io, the email delivery vendor for OpenSea.

OpenSea, the largest non-fungible token marketplace, disclosed a data breach on Wednesday and warned users of phishing attacks that could target them in the coming days. The company's Head Of Security, Cory Hardman, said that an employee of Customer.io, the platform's email delivery vendor, downloaded email addresses belonging to OpenSea users and newsletter subscribers.