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533 Million Facebook Accounts from 106 Countries Leaked Online Yet again, Facebook suffers a data breach embarrassment. Underlining once more—as if it was needed—that Facebook does not practice what it preaches when it comes to safeguarding and protecting its users’ personal data. The breached data is freely available on the Dark Web. Usually, breaches of this type are monetized. The threat actors charge other cybercriminals for access to the data.

MGM Data Breach Might be as Large As 142 Million

By Dave McKay in cybersecurity

July 14, 2020

MGM Data Breach Might Be Much Larger Than Thought The MGM Resorts data breach of 2019 was reported at the time to be in the order of 10.6 million personal records. That’s impressive, for all the wrong reasons. It is now believed to have included personal data of more than 142 million MGM hotel guests. That’s staggering—and still not in a good way. The new figures are based on the amount of breached data that is being sold on the Dark Web.

2020 Set to Break Records for Data Breaches

By Dave McKay in compliance

July 11, 2020

2020 Is Shaping Up - Badly Six months in and 2020 is on track to set a new data breach record. Healthcare, technology, software, social media and more have all been targeted by cybercriminals, reaping about 16 billion personal records. What’s Going On? It’s partly due to the coronavirus pandemic which gave cybercriminals new ways to mask threats. Phishing scams and social engineering were the most common threats. Online dating Online dating apps always seem to be built with security as an after thought, nothing like the security by design principle we’re all supposed to be adopting.

15 Billion Passwords on Dark Web

By Dave McKay in cybersecurity

July 10, 2020

15 Billion Stolen Credentials on the Dark Web A new study suggests that the number of stolen credentials for sale on the Dark Web could be more than 15 billion, with usernames, passwords and other login information for everything from online bank accounts to music and video streaming services are available. The data comes from hundreds of thousands of data breaches. As you’d expect, the most expensive credentials for sale were those for bank and financial services like PayPal, with an average price of £59.

Facebook Data Breach Exposes 533 Million Accounts

MGM Data Breach Might be as Large As 142 Million

2020 Set to Break Records for Data Breaches

15 Billion Passwords on Dark Web

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