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Dr Jason R.C. Nurse is an Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent, and a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford. As part of the Sophos Evolve 2020 event, Jason joined Doug Aamoth, Sophos product marketing director, and Sara Eberle, senior director of public relations, to talk about his work.
An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database. The site is very active with over 2.4 million topics, 12.5 million posts, and over 470,000 members.
Embedded system software provider Wind River Systems has started informing employees of a data breach that resulted in their personal information being stolen by a third party. Its product portfolio includes the Wind River Linux operating system and the VxWorks real-time operating system.
The Office of the Washington State Auditor has disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which the personal information of more than 1 million individuals might have been stolen. In its breach notification this week, SAO revealed that some of the files that were compromised in the incident contained "Personal information of Washington state residents who filed unemployment insurance claims in 2020.".
The Office of the Washington State Auditor on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance service, which allows organizations to share sensitive documents with users outside their organization securely.
Washington's State Auditor office has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims. The Office of the Washington State Auditor states that they suffered a data breach after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in a secure file transfer service from Accellion.
Mobile network operator USCellular suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to its CRM and viewed customers' accounts. In a data breach notification filed with the Vermont attorney general's office, USCellular states that retail store's employees were scammed into downloading software onto a computer.
I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. EDITED TO ADD: I seem to be conflating two stories, one current and one from last year.
The ShinyHunters hacking group offer a raft of information, from location and contact info to dating preferences and bodily descriptions, as a free download. More than 2.28 million members of the online dating site MeetMindful have reportedly been caught up in a wide-ranging data breach that exposes everything from Facebook tokens to physical characteristics. The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen and published the personally identifiable data of MeetMindful users, according to a report from ZDNet.
Menswear brand Bonobos has started informing customers of a data breach that may have resulted in their personal information getting compromised. Over the weekend, the company started informing users of a data breach that may have resulted in their personal information being stolen.