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The cracked passwords for almost 7.5 million DatPiff members are being sold online, and users can check if they are part of the data breach through the Have I Been Pwned notification service. It is unclear when the data breach occurred, but the DatPiff database was first sold privately and then publicly on hacking forums in July 2020.
The Broward Health public health system has disclosed a large-scale data breach incident impacting 1,357,879 individuals. Broward Health is a Florida-based healthcare system with over thirty locations offering a wide range of medical services and receives over 60,000 admissions per year.
T-Mobile confirmed that recent reports of a new data breach are linked to notifications sent to a "Very small number of customers" who fell victim to SIM swap attacks. SIM swapping makes it possible for attackers to take control of a target's mobile phone number by tricking or bribing the carrier's employees to reassign the numbers to attacker-controlled SIM cards.
Popular wrestling t-shirt site Pro Wrestling Tees has disclosed a data breach incident that has resulted in the compromise of the financial details of tens of thousands of its customers. Pro Wrestling Tees is a website allowing professional wrestlers to set up their own mini-stores to sell merchandise like shirts, posters, action figures, and more to their fans.
The South Australian government has disclosed that the sensitive personal information belonging to tens of thousands of its employees was compromised following a ransomware attack that hit the system of an external payroll software provider last month. The breached company behind this data breach is Frontier Software, which suffered from a ransomware attack on November 13, 2021.
Cox Communications has disclosed a data breach after a hacker impersonated a support agent to gain access to customers' personal information. Cox Communications, aka Cox Cable, is a digital cable provider and telecommunication company that provides internet, television, and phone services in the USA. This week, customers began receiving letters in the mail disclosing that Cox Communications learned on October 11th, 2021, that "Unknown person(s)" impersonated a Cox support agent to access customer information.
Fujitsu says the attackers behind the May data breach used a vulnerability in the company's ProjectWEB information-sharing tool to steal accounts from legitimate users and access proprietary data belonging to multiple Japanese government agencies. The National Cyber Security Center of Japan and the country's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism revealed at the time that the threat actors gained access to at least 76,000 email accounts during the ProjectWEB breach.
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles has disclosed a data breach after suffering a ransomware attack in October that exposed the personal information of approximately 400,000 patients. According to a data breach notification sent to Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients, the cyberattack occurred between October 9th and 17th, allowing threat actors to steal files from the compromised network.
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic's data breach raises questions, researchers say - given that more than two weeks after the incident was discovered, it's unclear if customers' personal information has been impacted. On Friday, Panasonic confirmed that its "Network was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11, 2021," and that "Some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion."
An Ohio-based DNA testing company, has disclosed a hacking incident that affects 2,102,436 persons. The incident resulted in a confirmed data breach that occurred between May 24, 2021, and July 28, 2021, but the firm discovered it only on October 29, 2021.