The information belonging to 8 million users of the home meal delivery service home chef was found for sale on the dark web after a data breach.
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Boston college server run by a contractor containing addresses and ssn of 120 000 individuals was compromised.
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Recent examples show disturbing trends from virtual bank heists to semi open attacks from nation states the last couple of years has been rough on it security.
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In a recent notice shopify has disclosed the details of a security breach that occurred from their staff.
The attack exposed the names birth dates driver s licenses and social security numbers of millions of people.
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Specifically shopify has disclosed a security breach caused by two employees that affected some of its merchants.
Of more recent data breaches equifax is among the biggest in scope considering the attack compromised 143 million accounts in the us.
A laptop containing the names social security numbers and credit card information for 84 000 university of north dakota alumni was stolen from the car of a contractor hired to develop software for the university.
The data found for sale includes names email addresses phone numbers addresses scrambled passwords and last four digits of credit card numbers.
The e commerce giant shopify has now fallen prey to an insider issue.
It also affected people residing in the uk and canada.
The heartland breach was a rare example where authorities caught the attacker.