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Personal Info Of 73M AT&T Customers Posted To Dark Web In Massive Data Breach, Company Says Personal Info Of 73M AT&T Customers Posted To Dark Web In Massive Data Breach, Company Says
Personal Info Of 73M AT&T Customers Posted To Dark Web In Massive Data Breach, Company Says Personal information of millions of AT&T customers was posted to the dark web in a major data breach announced by the telecom company Saturday, March 30. The data set appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 73 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders, the company said. "With respect to the balance of the data set, which includes personal information such as social security numbers, the source of the data is still being assessed," AT&T said. "Currently, AT&T does not have evidence of unauthorized acce…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Medical Company Data Breach: Affected NY Residents Warned Of Potential Identity Theft Medical Company Data Breach: Affected NY Residents Warned Of Potential Identity Theft
Medical Company Data Breach: Affected NY Residents Warned Of Potential Identity Theft Millions of New Yorkers are being warned by Attorney General Leticia James to protect themselves against identity theft following a data breach at a medical transcription company.  The warning, issued by James on Tuesday, Nov. 28, urges New York residents to take action to prevent their identities from being stolen in the midst of a data breach at medical transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates.  The Nevada-based company, which provides transcription services to healthcare organizations and physicians to help them dictate and transcribe patient notes, first becam…

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by Ben Crnic
Schools
Data Breach Reported At School District In Westchester Data Breach Reported At School District In Westchester
Data Breach Reported At School District In Westchester A data breach may have exposed information related to some students at a school district in Northern Westchester.  The breach was announced by Mount Pleasant Central School District Superintendent Peter Giarrizzo on Friday, Feb. 17, who said that several student email passwords may have been compromised by the incident.  After the data breach was discovered on Friday, an investigation into the matter found that several passwords belonging to Grade 7 students in the district had been posted to a shared Google Classroom during the 2020-2021 school year. After this document was …

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by Ben Crnic
Business
Hackers Accessed Personal Data Of 37 Million Customers, T-Mobile Says Hackers Accessed Personal Data Of 37 Million Customers, T-Mobile Says
Hackers Accessed Personal Data Of 37 Million Customers, T-Mobile Says A hacker accessed the personal data of tens of millions of T-Mobile's customers, the company announced. T-Mobile says it's "currently in the process of informing impacted customers that after a thorough investigation, we have determined that a bad actor used a single Application Programming Interface (or API) to obtain limited types of information on their accounts." The breach began on Friday, Nov. 25, and the data breached included name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number, and "information such as the number of lines on the account …

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by Joe Lombardi
Schools
Data Of Nearly One Million NY Students Compromised In Hack Of Online Grading System Data Of Nearly One Million NY Students Compromised In Hack Of Online Grading System
Data Of Nearly One Million NY Students Compromised In Hack Of Online Grading System The personal data of nearly a million New York students has been compromised by hackers attempting to alter grades, investigators announced. In January, Illuminate Education, a taxpayer-funded software company that tracks grades and attendance for the New York City Department of Education, was targeted, resulting in the data of approximately 820,000 students being made available. Specifically, officials said that the hackers gained access to students’ names, birthdays, ethnicities, English-speaking, special-education, teacher schedules, and free-lunch statuses, though information including …

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by Zak Failla
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1.1M Accounts Compromised In Cyberattacks Of 17 Companies, NY AG Investigation Finds 1.1M Accounts Compromised In Cyberattacks Of 17 Companies, NY AG Investigation Finds
1.1M Accounts Compromised In Cyberattacks Of 17 Companies, NY AG Investigation Finds An investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office found that more than 1.1 million accounts were compromised in cyberattacks of 17 companies. Attorney General Letitia James said in an announcement on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that the "Credential Stuffing Attacks" involve repeated, automated attempts to access accounts by using information stolen from other websites. James said often people reuse the same passwords on different sites, which allows cybercriminals to use stolen passwords on other websites.  “Right now, there are more than 15 billion stolen credentials being circu…

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by Nicole Valinote
Schools
NY School District Victim Of Ransomware Attack NY School District Victim Of Ransomware Attack
NY School District Victim Of Ransomware Attack Files stolen from a New York school district have reportedly been posted on the dark web following a ransomware attack after hackers did not receive ransom payments. On Long Island, acting Manhasset Schools Superintendent Gaurav Passi issued an alert to the community that said that the district was notified that some files stolen from school servers had been posted online. “We were notified that yesterday, the criminals posted certain files to the dark web that they stole from our servers,” he advised. “We are currently reviewing these files, and we will provide direct notification, in ac…

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by Zak Failla
Business
Wegmans Announces Breach Of Customers' Personal Information Wegmans Announces Breach Of Customers' Personal Information
Wegmans Announces Breach Of Customers' Personal Information Wegmans is warning customers that some personal information may have been exposed to hackers due to a recent data breach. The grocery giant issued an alert this week to notify customers that two databases used for Wegmans internal business purposes were inadvertently left open to potential outside access due to a configuration issue. Officials said that customer names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, Shoppers Club numbers, e-mail addresses and passwords for access to Wegmans.com accounts were included in the databases. "However, all impacted Wegmans.com account passwords were, in t…

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by Zak Failla
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Quest Diagnostics Says Nearly 12M May Have Had Financial, Personal Info Exposed In Data Breach Quest Diagnostics Says Nearly 12M May Have Had Financial, Personal Info Exposed In Data Breach
Quest Diagnostics Says Nearly 12M May Have Had Financial, Personal Info Exposed In Data Breach Millions of Quest Diagnostics patients may have had their financial, medical and other personal information exposed in a data breach, the company announced on Monday. Officials at Quest Diagnostics said Monday that 11.9 million peoples’ personal information, including Social Security numbers may have been compromised after one of its billing collectors reported a data breach. According to Quest Diagnostics, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) notified the company and a Quest contractor that uses AMCA’s billing services last month. The number of patients impacted was only recently dete…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
These Are Most Hacked Passwords According To Brand-New Report These Are Most Hacked Passwords According To Brand-New Report
These Are Most Hacked Passwords According To Brand-New Report Despite the prevalence of online hackers and the concerns of cybersecurity breaches, many continue to use simple and easy to guess passwords that have led to data breaches, according to a new report. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) first “cyber survey” determined the most commonly used passwords that were received in data breaches. According to the report, the most commonly used passwords that have been hacked are: 123456 (23.2 million); 123456789 (7.7 million); qwerty (3.8 million); password (3.6 million); 111111 (3.1 million); 12345678; abc123; 1234567;  password1, a…

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by Zak Failla
Business
'Massive, Extended' Marriott Breach Affects 500 Million Starwood Guests 'Massive, Extended' Marriott Breach Affects 500 Million Starwood Guests
'Massive, Extended' Marriott Breach Affects 500 Million Starwood Guests In one of the largest breaches of consumer data ever, up to 500 million guests' information may have been accessed as part of a breach of its Starwood guest reservation database, Marriott International announced on Friday morning. Following a three-month investigation, the company discovered there had been unauthorized access since 2014 and that an "unauthorized party" had copied and encrypted information. "The company has not finished identifying duplicate information in the database, but believes it contains information on up to approximately 500 million guests who made a r…

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by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Facebook Hack Update: 14 Million Had Additional Data Stolen, Including Search Histories Facebook Hack Update: 14 Million Had Additional Data Stolen, Including Search Histories
Facebook Hack Update: 14 Million Had Additional Data Stolen, Including Search Histories Facebook has provided an update and notified users who had their phone numbers, email addresses and other personal information accessed after a hacker gained access to the site. In a call on Friday, Facebook officials said that the FBI is “actively investigating” the breach, which impacted nearly 30 million (down from the 50 million reported last month), including 14 million users who had additional information hacked, including their location, religion and search histories. According to the company, it still does not know the full extent of the attack, and other smaller-scale attacks may h…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
Personal Info Of 50 Million Facebook Users Breached In Attack Personal Info Of 50 Million Facebook Users Breached In Attack
Personal Info Of 50 Million Facebook Users Breached In Attack Millions of people are not going to “like” hearing that a hacker gained access to Facebook accounts in the latest cyber attack to strike the company. A hacker gained access to the information of nearly 50 million Facebook user accounts in what appears to be the largest security breach in the company’s history. In a message posted on Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a White Plains native who attended Ardsley High School, said that “we do not yet know whether these accounts were misused, but we are continuing to look into this and will update when we learn more.” Facebook said that the …

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by Zak Failla
Business
Chili's Reports Data Breach At 'Certain Restaurants' Chili's Reports Data Breach At 'Certain Restaurants'
Chili's Reports Data Breach At 'Certain Restaurants' Chili’s has become the latest chain to be impacted by a data breach. The popular eatery’s parent company, Brinker International, announced this week that some customer credit and debit card information has been compromised at several Chili’s locations throughout the country in March and April this year, though the scope of the data breach remains under investigation. "We sincerely apologize to those who may have been affected and assure you we are working diligently to resolve this incident," Brinker said in a statement. They reportedly discovered the data breach on May 11. Accor…

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by Zak Failla
Business
Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue Customers Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue Customers
Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue Customers Two of the nation's premier department stores suffered a security breach that has compromised credit and debit card as well as personal information for more than five million customers. About 125,000 cards used at Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue have been released for sale so far on dark web forums, according to Gemini Advisory, a New York-based cyber-security firm. For a notice about the breach published by Gemini Advisory, click here. A spokesman for the Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both chain stores, confirmed the breach and released separate statements for customers of both…

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by Daily Voice
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W-2 Form Tax Scam: Be On The Lookout, IRS Says W-2 Form Tax Scam: Be On The Lookout, IRS Says
W-2 Form Tax Scam: Be On The Lookout, IRS Says The Internal Revenue Service is warning employers and employees in the Hudson Valley of a Form W-2 phishing scam that cost hundreds of organizations and employees thousands of dollars last year. During the last two tax seasons, cybercriminals tricked payroll personnel or people with access to payroll information into disclosing sensitive information for entire workforces, according to the IRS. The scam affected all types of employers, from small and large businesses to public schools and universities, hospitals, tribal governments and charities. In total, more than 900 phishing reports were…

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by Zak Failla