In July 2022, a hacker that went by the alias ‘devil’ posted on hacking forum BreachForums that they had the data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts for sale.
Twitter confirms data from 5.4 million accounts was stolen Learn more about the response to the data breach in this August post.
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It was concluded by the investigation on August 17, 2022, that due to a vulnerability in its system, student loan account registration information including names, home and email addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers, were accessible to an unknown third party from June until July 22, 2022.įollowing this discovery, Nelnet Servicing notified the US Department of Education and law enforcement. Student loan data breach leaks 2.5 million social security numbersĪ data breach on student loan servicer Nelnet Servicing caused the confidential information of more than 2.5 million users to be leaked in June 2022. Read more about SHEIN’s mishandling of the breach in this October post.
The discovery was made after the credit card network found SHEIN customers’ payment details for sale on a hacking forum. According to a statement issued by the state of New York’s Attorney General’s office, SHEIN’s payment processor contacted the brand and disclosed that it had been “contacted by a large credit card network and a credit card issuing bank, each of which had information indicating that system have been infiltrated and card data stolen”. The cyber security incident which took place in July 2018 saw a malicious third party gain unauthorized access to SHEIN’s payment systems. In October, Zoetop Business Company, the firm that owns fast fashion brands SHEIN and ROMWE, was fined US$1.9mn by the state of New York after failing to disclose a data breach which affected 39 million customers. SHEIN fined US$1.9mn over data breach affecting 39 million customers Learn more about public response to the breach in this September post. The Lithuanian government said that Revolut had taken “prompt action to eliminate the attacker's access to the company's customer data and stop the incident” once it was discovered. The data accessed included names, home and email addresses, and partial payment card information, although Revolut has stated that card details were masked. The breach involved a third-party gaining access to Revolut’s database and the personal information of 50,150 users. The personal information for more than 50,000 users of fintech start-up Revolut was accessed during a data breach that took place on September 11, 2022. Revolut data breach exposes information for more than 50,000 customers Read on to hear about data breaches at Revolut, Twitter, Uber and Rockstar, and let us know if you were impacted by any of the incidents covered in the comment section below. In this article, we reveal which data breaches and leaks and the phishing, malware and cyber attacks ranked among our top ten most-read cyber security news stories of 2022. Cyber security publication Security Magazine reported that the figures for 2022 are expected to exceed this figure by as much as five percent.
More than 4,100 publicly disclosed data breaches occurred in 2022 equating to approximately 22 billion records being exposed.
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