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Hello everyone, first of all, let me wish everyone who reads this a happy new year. We ran backups today instead of yesterday, but we’re pushing forward.
While our last post talked about people who got picked up, this post will talk about the worst breaches of this past year.
blog post: The top assholes of 2023: assholes of the podcast or year?
Heads up! One of the breaches is at least two years old! On top of it, another is three! What seems to be the problem with that? You’ll find a pretty convincing trend with this post, and maybe this entire article by Carly should receive a moron.
No Carly, you are not the moron and we are not targeting you. Your article shines the stupidest things you can ever do if you are breached, and its articles like yours that we want to highlight and say “Thanks for sharing.” Thank you for your writing!
Again, some of these may be familiar to you, while others may not necessarily be familiar to you.
With this out of the way, here we go!
Electoral Commission hid details of a huge hack for a year, yet still tight-lipped
Story 1. A commission who is supposed to at least try to be as secure as possible isn’t. But then again, we’re talking about the election commission, and I’ve seen too many stories where the election system in some place or another was either tampered with or flat out breached. Images were snatched and as many as 40 million United Kingdom voters may be affected by this one. Not like we’ve heard of this story, but then again, should we be surprised?
Samsung won’t say how many customers hit by year-long data breach
There are several of these, and Samsung must be in this list of course. They’ve got nothing to lose, so they say, but customers can decide to change at the next opportunity they have and never do business with your company. To make things worse, they claim tht the info was taken on purchases between 2019 and 2020, probably before the pandemic took full effect world wide. The problem? These people didn’t even discover the intrusion until 3 years after the fact. Three years? When asked why it took so long to even disclose the breach and find it, the company refused to answer any questions about the matter.
Hackers stole Shadow data, and Shadow went silent
Shadow is next, and they went silent after some sort of problem they had. Apparently, they’re just as bad as disclosing anything, as they hide by the shadow. Makes you wonder how many breaches have actually happened at the company, who is supposedly in France?
Apparently, an advanced social enegnneering attack was made toward an employee who fell for the baite. We still don’t know how big the incident is, but reports only indicate that at least 10,000 people were affected. My hunch? Its probably a lot bigger, and we’ll never know.
Lyca Mobile refused to say what kind of cyberattack hit
I don’t know who these folk are, but this can’t be good. Apparently they are a virtual mobile network and they’ve said nothing about any type of breach that hit their network. According to the segment, it caused wide disruption to the area. Even after two months, this provider has not said how many people were affected by the breach. Maybe they joined the shadow with this one.
MGM Resorts still hasn’t said how many customers had data stolen after hack
Everyone knows about this one. Everyone talked about it from news agencies from around the world to your daily tech podcast. The thing we can take out of this is that it will cause millions of dollars, and MGM hasn’t released any more information than we already know. The info taken was possibly info prior to 2019, says the segment, but it could be earlier. It could include info including passport info and social security numbers. What? Passport information for a ganbling chain? Something really fishy is going on, and I’m glad I haven’t gone there.
Dish breach may affect millions — potentially a lot more
Yes, dish networks, the satelite company that provides entertainment in your home got owned, and they’ve never come clean about what exactly went on wrong. We covered this one, and as the onpenng paragraph states, this was a February breavh. Ever since the initial postings, they’ve not provided anything else to anyone, whether they’re a reader like you or a customer like some folk I know.
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CommScope late to tell its own employees that their data was stolen
Finally, another company who I’ve never heard of is wanting to keep their trap shut. They apparently design network infrastructure products, but can’t tell you that something occurred that could in fact affect you and I. They were targed by Vice Society, the young group hacking team. Boy! That makes me feel a hell of a lot better, doesn’t it?
The breach affected employees of the company and things taken included names, addresses email, social security numbers and more.
Each section goes in to detail and I’ve only highlighted it here for you.
The article by Carly is titled Here we go again: 2023’s badly handled data breaches and if this interests you, please feel free to read it.
Yeah, this is going to get very interesting.