September was quite the month for data breaches, with a Facebook data breach of 50 million user’s data to an Uber settlement of $148M paid to Statw Attorneys General in all 50 states (including DC) plus 5 other severe data breaches that happened and kept the daily news feeds full in between.
Date Discovered: 9/28/18
# of records: 50,000,000
How the breach happened: Three software flaws in Facebook’s systems allowed hackers to break into user accounts.
Type of Data involved: Names, Address, Facebook User data
Apollo, a sales engagement startup
Date Discovered: 9/20/18
# of records: 200,000,000
How the breach happened: Data leak
Type of Data involved: Name, email address, company names, and other business contact information
Newegg
Date Discovered: 9/19/18
# of records: Unknown
How the breach happened: Application Layer attack
Type of Data involved: Personal and financial details, Credit Card Numbers
GovPayNow.com
Date Discovered: 9/17/18
# of records: 14,000,000+
How the breach happened: Data leak
Type of Data involved: Names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the payer’s credit card
MedCall Healthcare Advisors
Date Discovered: 9/16/18
# of records: 3,000+
How the breach happened: Misconfigured AWS S3 bucket
Type of Data involved: Medical records, employment information, phone call recording between patients, doctors and Medcall operators and Social Security Numbers of around 3,000 individuals.
British Airways
Date Discovered: 9/6/18
# of records: 380,000
How the breach happened: Credit card skimmer script attack
Type of Data involved: Personal and financial details, Credit Card Numbers
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