Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2020
Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers). The company reported unauthorized access, on at least one occasion, to a misconfigured and unsecured marketing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2020
New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. The wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor. A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2020
Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. The mobile app allows users to refill prescriptions by scanning barcode, manage medications with Pill Reminder, set Rx alerts for refills […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2020
The Israeli marketing firm Straffic accidentally exposed 49 million unique email addresses stored in an Elasticsearch database. The Israeli marketing firm Straffic exposed 49 million unique email addresses due to mishandled credentials for an Elasticsearch database. The credentials for the company archive were stored in plain text on an unprotected web server. Straffic notified the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 29, 2020
Not only Maze ransomware gang, the operators behind Sodinokibi Ransomware allegedly leaked the data of Kenneth Cole Productions. The operators behind Sodinokibi Ransomware have published the download links to archives containing data allegedly stolen from the US firm Kenneth Cole Productions. The news was first reported by the Under the Breach research group. Sodinokibi (aka REvil) is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 29, 2020
RailWorks Corporation, one of the leading railroad track and transit system providers in North America, disclosed a ransomware attack. RailWorks Corporation, one of the leading providers of rail infrastructure solutions in North America, disclosed a ransomware attack. The security breach may have also exposed personally identifiable information (i.e. Government-issued IDs, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, dates of hire/termination […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2020
Bad news for the controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI, hackers gained “unauthorized access” to a list of all of its customers. The controversial facial-recognition company that contracts with law-enforcement agencies announced that attackers have gained unauthorized access to its entire client list. The company already informed its customers of the security breach. The startup came under […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2020
Hackers share SQL databases from unsecured AWS buckets, including the archive belonging to the BGR tech news site in India. Hackers are sharing SQL databases from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets, one of them belongs to the BGR tech news site in India. BGR, aka Boy Genius Report, is a popular technology-influenced website that covers topics […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2020
The South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung announced that customers’ personal information was leaked online due to a “technical error” Samsung announced that customers’ personal information was exposed online through its website due to a “technical error.” The glitch only affected the U.K. website (http://samsung.com/UK) for a total of 150 impacted customers. “People who logged on were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2020
Experts discovered a leaking, active database with over 123 million records belonging to Decathlon Spain (and possibly Decathlon UK as well). Experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a leaking, active database containing over 123 million records belonging to the sporting goods retailer Decathlon Spain (and possibly Decathlon UK as well). The unsecure archive is greater than […]
