Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 13 states (plus the District of Columbia), which alleged that the company failed to protect its customers' data. In December 2016, Ashley Madison agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle data breach lawsuits filed by the U.S. (Its former motto: "Life is short, have an affair.") In July 2015, a data breach exposed 36 million accounts at the controversial Toronto-based dating site Ashley Madison, which was designed to help people find sexual partners outside of their relationships. Additionally, Home Depot agreed to make improvements to its security processes, including hiring a chief information security officer. In March 2016, the company agreed to settle, paying a total of $19.5 million to customers ($13 million to reimburse incurred expenses, and $6.5 million for identity protection services for 18 months). Home Depot (2016) - $19.5 millionīetween April and September 2014, a hacker breached Home Depot’s security and accessed the details of more than 50 million credit cards and email addresses, making it one of the largest data breaches in history. Fortune reports that, as part of the settlement, Home Depot must tighten its cybersecurity and "subjects its vendors to more scrutiny."įortune also says that Home Depot's total losses for the data breach have now reached $179 million, according to court documents. In March 2017, Home Depot's data breach expenses soared once again when it agreed to a $25 million settlement with dozens of banks and credit card companies impacted by its 2014 breach. Some consumers will instead receive $50 cash.
The money will go in part toward credit monitoring for impacted consumers. This is the largest data breach settlement in history. In June 2017, America's largest insurance company, Anthem Inc., agreed to a $115 million settlement after a breach compromised 80 million customers' private data.
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LeakedSource says they have access to the whole 167 million accounts, which they added to their service, so users can safely search and see if they are included in the breach.īack in 2012, despite 6.5 million user details leaking online, LinkedIn never confirmed how many users were affected, kept quiet, and people forgot anything happened. Users can search and see if their data was exposed The simpler the password, the quick it is to crack. Crooks can't break these strings instantaneously, but with time, all password hashes will fall. SHA1 is a powerful encryption algorithm, but the advances in modern computing power allow attackers to break SHA1 password strings. This means weak passwords can be easily cracked. Later he revealed that the data is indeed from the 2012 breach and warned that the passwords were encrypted with SHA1 with no salting. Troy Hunt, Have I Been Pwned? creator said on Twitter, "I've been verifying a portion of the alleged 167M record LinkedIn data breach. Two websites specialized in collecting data from online breaches, LeakedSource and Have I Been Pwned? analyzed the data. The last time LinkedIn revealed its total user count, the company said they had 433 million users signed up for an account. He claims to have details about 167,370,940 accounts but said that only about 117 million include hashed passwords. Peace claims that this data is part of that 2012 breach. Later, the hackers posted 6.5 million of the stolen records online, complete with user passwords in hashed format. LinkedIn suffered a massive data breach in 2012 when hackers breached its servers and stole some of its user records. Data from an older LinkedIn data breach has surfaced online, and a hacker known as Peace_of_mind (Peace) is selling it for 5 Bitcoin (~$2,200) on the Dark Web marketplace TheRealDeal.
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