The Information Highway

The Information Highway

23andMe to pay $30 million in genetics data breach settlement

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DNA testing giant 23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 6.4 million customers in 2023.

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Car rental giant Avis discloses data breach impacting customers

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American car rental giant Avis notified customers that unknown attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole some of their personal information.

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Park’N Fly notifies 1 million customers of data breach

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Park'N Fly is warning that a data breach exposed the personal and account information of 1 million customers in Canada after hackers breached its network. 

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Dairy giant Agropur says data breach exposed customer info

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Agropur, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in North America, is notifying customers of a data breach after some of its shared online directories were exposed.

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Ticketmaster sends notifications about recent massive data breach

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Ticketmaster has started to notify customers who were impacted by a data breach after hackers stole the company's Snowflake database, containing the data of millions of people.

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CDK warns: threat actors are calling customers, posing as support

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CDK Global has cautioned customers about unscrupulous actors calling them and posing as CDK agents or affiliates to gain unauthorized systems access.

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Retail chain Hot Topic hit by new credential stuffing attacks

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American retailer Hot Topic disclosed that two waves of credential stuffing attacks in November exposed affected customers' personal information and partial payment data.

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Massive AT&T outage impacts US mobile subscribers

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Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless service or interruptions to service.


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Microsoft expands free logging capabilities after May breach

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Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities for all Purview Audit standard customers, including U.S. federal agencies, six months after disclosing that Chinese hackers stole U.S. government emails undetected in an Exchange Online breach between May and June 2023.


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23andMe data breach: Hackers stole raw genotype data, health reports

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Genetic testing provider 23andMe confirmed that hackers stole health reports and raw genotype data of customers affected by a credential stuffing attack that went unnoticed for five months, from April 29 to September 27.


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Shadow PC warns of data breach as hacker tries to sell gamers' info

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Shadow PC, a provider of high-end cloud computing services, is warning customers of a data breach that exposed customers' private information, as a threat actor claims to be selling the stolen data for over 500,000 customers. 

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Retail chain Hot Topic discloses wave of credential-stuffing attacks

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American apparel retailer Hot Topic is notifying customers about multiple cyberattacks between February 7 and June 21 that resulted in exposing sensitive information to hackers. 

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Top Breaches Of 2023

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