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UK Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years for Role in Massive Twitter Hack
A UK citizen involved in the July 2020 Twitter hack pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrimes in the US and was sentenced to 5 years in prison on Friday. Joseph James O’Connor, 24, was part of a conspiracy that hijacked over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of politicians and celebrities, to perpetrate a cryptocurrency scam. According…
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Over 2.5 Million Affected in Major Data Breach at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a leading healthcare provider located at 1 Wellness Way, Canton, MA, announced a significant data breach affecting more than 2.5 million individuals. The breach was discovered on April 17, 2023, and occurred due to an external system hacking incident which began on March 28, 2023. Chris Walsh, Vice President of Privacy…
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Toyota Investigates Possible Data Leakage Affecting Approximately 260,000 Customers
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has identified a potential data leakage incident involving customer information due to misconfigurations in its cloud settings. The issue was discovered during an investigation of all cloud environments managed by TOYOTA Connected Corporation (TC). Following an announcement on May 12, the company discovered that a portion of the data containing customer…
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Whistleblowers Leak Massive Trove of Internal Tesla Documents
Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper, received approximately 100 gigabytes of internal Tesla documents from anonymous whistleblowers towards the end of 2022. This marked the first time such a significant volume of alleged internal Tesla data has been made public. Journalists from Germany, Japan, and the USA are involved in analyzing the leaked information. The collective…
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Massive Luxottica Data Breach Compromises Personal Information of 70 Million Customers
Luxottica, the world’s leading eyewear company and owner of renowned brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Chanel, Prada, Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Burberry, Giorgio Armani, and Michael Kors, among others, has verified a 2021 data breach involving one of its partners. The breach exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database containing this…
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Department of Transportation Suffers Major Cyber Breach
WASHINGTON D.C. – A substantial cyber breach has occurred at the Department of Transportation (DOT), with a potential impact on approximately 237,000 present and past federal employees, as disclosed by Reuters last Friday. The cyber intrusion was primarily focused on TRANServe, a transit benefits scheme managed by the DOT. According to an internal email that…
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RoadSafe Traffic Systems Suffers Data Breach
RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Inc., one of the leading providers of traffic safety products and services, reported a significant data breach on April 10, 2023. The breach, which involved unauthorized access to its network systems, may have exposed sensitive personal and financial information of nearly 10,000 individuals. RoadSafe promptly detected suspicious activity within its computer network…
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T-Mobile Suffers Second Data Breach of 2023
T-Mobile has disclosed the second data breach of the year 2023, marking a concerning trend in the company’s security. The company detected unauthorized access to the personal information of hundreds of its customers over a period of more than a month, beginning in late February 2023. This follows a similar incident that occurred earlier in…