Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2018
iVideon Russian-based video surveillance solution leaked data, hundreds of thousands of records exposed

Security researchers from Kromtech Security discovered a MongoDB install belonging to the Russian-based video surveillance firm Did iVideon open online. The database included personal information for over 825,000 subscribers and partners. Leaked records include logins, email addresses, password hashes, server names, domain names, IP addresses, sub accounts, software settings, and payment settings information (we did not see any credit card […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2018
Mining passwords from dozens of public Trello boards

Trello, when an error in the publishing strategy is able to put at risk the private data of a huge community of unaware users. A “Security enthusiastic” found a vulnerability in the Trello web management and now with a simple dork is possible to query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards. Our […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2018
Twitter urges its 330 million users to change passwords after bug exposed them in plain text

Twitter is urging all of its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text on internal systems. Twitter is urging its users to immediately change their passwords after a glitch caused some of them to be stored in plain text. We are sharing this information to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2018
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank lost 20 Million customer records

Australia’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, disclosed a major security incident that exposed financial records for almost 20 million customers. According to the Commonwealth Bank representatives, two magnetic data tapes were lost, both stored customers’ records, including names, addresses, account numbers and transaction details from 2000 to 2016. According to the broadcaster ABC, the data were supposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2018
GitHub urged some users to reset their passwords after accidental recorded them

GitHub, world’s leading software development platform, forced password reset for some users after the discovery of a problem that caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. GitHub urged some users to reset their passwords after a problem caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. Some users published on Twitter the communication […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2018
New Bezop Cryptocurrency (BEZ) leaks Personal details for 25k users

Security experts at Kromtech discovered a MongoDB exposed personal details of 25,000 users tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency. Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Kromtech have discovered a MongoDB database containing the personal details of over 25,000 Bezop (BEZ) cryptocurrency users. There are 1384 cryptocurrencies as of Jan 2018. One of them had a database of 25K active […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2018
Health Stream left exposed online a database containing contact data for roughly 10,000 medics

An IT professional has discovered that the US healthcare company Health Stream left exposed online contact information for roughly 10,000 medics. The IT expert Brian Wethern has discovered that the US healthcare company Health Stream left exposed online a database containing contact information for roughly 10,000 medics. Wethern reported his discovery to Health Stream ten days ago, he explained that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2018
SunTrust unfaithful employee may have stolen data on 1.5 Million customers

SunTrust Banks Inc announced it discovered that a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share it a criminal organization. A former employee at the SunTrust Bank may have stolen data on 1.5 million clients,  including names, addresses, phone numbers, and account balances. “The company became aware of potential […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2018
Private Intelligence agency LocalBlox leaked 48 Million personal data records

The private intelligence agency LocalBlox has left unsecured online an AWS bucket containing 48 million records that were also harvested from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Oops … another data breach made the headlines and once again it was discovered by data leak hunters at Upguard. The private intelligence agency LocalBlox has left unsecured online an AWS […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2018
TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand suffered a data leak

TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand suffered a data leak, 46000 people’s data store on an AWS bucked were left on accessible online, including driving licenses and passports. Let’s speak about a new data breach, this time the victim is TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand. The operator exposed online […]