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A flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross flutters above the humanitarian organization's headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 29, 2021. The ICRC is pleading with hackers to keep stolen data confidential.

Cyberattack on Red Cross compromised sensitive data on over 515,000 vulnerable people

Jan 20, 2022
The attack targeted a contractor in Switzerland that was storing the data. The Red Cross has been forced to halt a program that reunites families torn apart by violence, migration or other tragedies.
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Technology
Streaming and gaming company Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, says they had a data breach Wednesday morning.

Twitch, the popular game streaming service, confirms that its data has been hacked

Oct 06, 2021
Twitch says a breach took place Wednesday morning, but the company has not provided further details about what kind of information was released and how many users were affected.
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Hackers Claim To Have Posted Nevada School District Data

Sep 29, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A computer hacker group has claimed it uploaded information stolen from a Nevada school district to a website.

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Data About UNR Alumni, Donors May Have Been Stolen In May

Sep 11, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — School officials say alumni and donors from the University of Nevada, Reno may have had their information stolen in a data breach that occurred in May.

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MGM Resorts Hack Affected A Reported 10.6M Former Guests

Feb 20, 2020
LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International has confirmed the company was hacked after a report was released detailing information from more than 10 million former hotel guests was compromised.
 
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that ZDNet released a report Wednesday revealin
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Information Of Las Vegas-Area Students Exposed In Breach

Aug 02, 2019

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas-area school district says student and employee information was exposed in a data breach involving a contractor's web program.

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Google+ will shut down in April instead of August, after a new data vulnerability was found in its software.

Google Accelerates Google+ Shutdown After 52.5 Million Users' Data Exposed

Dec 11, 2018
Users' names, birth dates, email addresses, work history and other data were exposed for nearly a week in November, Google says. It will now close the social network four months earlier than planned.
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Business
Uber announced its settlement with 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, paying a penalty and promising to make its data security more robust. Here, Uber  CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is seen at an event in New York earlier this month.

Uber Pays $148 Million Over Yearlong Cover-Up Of Data Breach

Sep 27, 2018
Instead of reporting the hacking intrusion as required, Uber paid the hackers $100,000 after learning of the breach in late 2016.
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Business
British Airways CEO Alex Cruz says the carrier will reimburse any customer who loses money due to the data breach.

British Airways Says Customers' Financial Data Was Hacked In 380,000 Transactions

Sep 07, 2018
"The stolen data did not include travel or passport details," the airline said. But hackers were able to access customers' names, email addresses and credit card information.
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Panera Bread's website went down for part of Monday — eight months after the chain was warned that its site wasn't protecting sensitive customer data.

For Months, Panera Bread Website Reportedly Exposed Millions Of Customer Records

Apr 03, 2018
Panera's response was "half-baked," security analyst Brian Krebs said. Another researcher says he alerted the company to a "massive" flaw issue last August.
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Facebook: Firm Working With Trump Campaign Stole 50 Million Users' Data

Mar 18, 2018
Cambridge Analytica has been suspended by Facebook for harvesting information from millions of users. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez.
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Ronda Goldfein, attorney and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, holds an envelope that revealed a person's HIV status through the clear window.

Aetna Agrees To Pay $17 Million In HIV Privacy Breach

Jan 17, 2018
Health insurer Aetna has reached a settlement with people whose privacy was compromised when their HIV status was visible through the clear address windows on envelopes sent to them.
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The Two-Way
A new disclosure from Yahoo — now known as Oath after it was bought by telecom company Verizon — dramatically escalates the size of the 2013 hack revealed last year.

Every Yahoo Account That Existed In Mid-2013 Was Likely Hacked

Oct 03, 2017
Yahoo says the massive hack, previously said to have affected 1 billion accounts, in fact likely compromised 3 billion accounts. However, the company says corrective actions have already been taken.
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Equifax's stock price went sliding by double digits on Friday as millions of Americans struggled to get answers from the company about whether they were affected and what to do next.

3 Equifax Executives Sold Stock Days After Hack That Wasn't Disclosed For A Month

Sep 08, 2017
Equifax says that at the time, the executives, who sold nearly $2 million in stock, didn't know of the breach, which exposed personal data of 143 million Americans. Consumers struggle to get answers.
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Trump Hotels Settle With NY Attorney General Over Data Loss

Sep 26, 2016

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general has announced a settlement with Trump Hotel Collection, saying the company has agreed to pay $50,000 and shore up data security after breaches exposed more than 70,000 credit card numbers and other personal data.

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The campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sparred on Friday after a software glitch allowed the Sanders campaign to view and save proprietary data from the Clinton campaign.

Data Breach Fight Creates New Rancor Ahead Of Democratic Debate

Dec 19, 2015
A Saturday evening debate expected to be unexciting could have new fire after the DNC and Sanders sparred over a data breach where his campaign saw proprietary information from Clinton's campaign.
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Politics
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Bernie Sanders Campaign Locked Out Of Key Voter File After Data Breach

Dec 18, 2015
The senator's campaign confirms a member of its staff accessed the proprietary voter files of another campaign. Now the Democratic National Committee is locking Sanders' campaign out of the system.
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The Two-Way
The credit reporting firm Experian is the latest company targeted by hackers. In this case, the personal information of 15 million T-Mobile customers was stolen.

Hackers Breach Credit Agency Experian, Stealing 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Info

Oct 01, 2015
T-Mobile CEO says he is "incredibly angry" about the privacy breach and offers free credit monitoring for customers.
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