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1 week agoSouth Korea's Coupang admits breach exposed 33.7M users
South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information. The e-commerce titan, often dubbed the "Amazon of Korea," is South Korea's largest retail platform, logistics operator, and warehousing network - a vertically integrated retail giant whose next-day delivery service, Rocket Delivery, has become shorthand domestically for cardboard boxes arriving before customers have fully remembered ordering anything at all.
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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks agoBug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data | TechCrunch
The bug meant it was possible for anyone to obtain the information about jurors who are selected for service. To log into these platforms, a juror is provided a unique numerical identifier assigned to them, which could be brute-forced since the number was sequentially incremental. The platform also did not have any mechanism to prevent anyone from flooding the login pages with a large number of guesses, a feature known as "rate-limiting."
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fromDataBreaches.Net
1 month agoHacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs - DataBreaches.Net
A Mass Assignment vulnerability in the FIA Driver Categorization Portal allowed administrative takeover and exposed drivers' passports, licenses, and personal data within minutes.
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1 month agoHotel and Casino near Las Vegas Strip suffers data breach, documents say - DataBreaches.Net
OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas was hit by a cyberattack sometime in early January, allegedly exposing the personal information of more than 4,700 people, according to documents provided by authorities in Maine. OYO Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip on Tropical Avenue near Koval Lane and owned by OYO Hotels and Highgate Hotels, suffered the data breach sometime between Jan. 8 and Jan. 11, affecting a total of 4,741 people, according to information provided by the Maine Attorney General's office.
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3 months agoTransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers' personal information | TechCrunch
Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. In a filing with Maine's attorney general's office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing its customers' personal data. TransUnion claimed "no credit information was accessed," but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not specify what specific types of personal data were stolen.
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