Caribou Coffee notified customers a payment card breach that hit more than 260 of its stores in the United States. A payment card breach hit over 260 Caribou Coffee stores, the companyowned by German JAB Holding Company detected the intrusion on November 28. Caribou Coffee also informed the FBI of the security breach. The company […]
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) notifies employees of a data breach that exposed social security numbers and other personal information. According to the data breach notification, hackers have breached at least one of the agency’s servers, the security breach impacted both past and present employees. Website SpaceRef published a data breach notification note sent by the NASA […]
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InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers for 120 million Brazilian taxpayers In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. […]
According to a report published by the Reuters, the massive Marriott data breach was carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. According to the Reuters, people investigating the Marriot data breach believe that it is the result of a cyberattack carried out by Chinese hackers. Last week Marriott International announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary […]
Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. The email system at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, was hacked. The news was first reported by Politico, later the committee admitted the intrusion […]
Another day another illustrious victim of the data breach, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach that exposed 100 million users. On Monday, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach, unknown hackers breached its systems and accessed 100 million user data. The company is notifying the incident to the affected users and […]
Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]
Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. Marriott International is the last victim of a long string of data breaches, the company announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary Starwood hotels and stolen personal details of about 500 […]
Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e. names, email addresses, and hashed passwords) from the company portal Dell.com, from support.dell.com websites. Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a […]