Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, the flag carrier of Hong Kong, had suffered a major data leak affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, the flag carrier of Hong Kong, admitted having suffered a major data leak affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. Exposed data includes passport numbers, identity card numbers, email addresses, and […]
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced hackers breached into a computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov. Hackers breached into a computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, attackers accessed to the sensitive personal data of some 75,000 people. After experts discovered the intrusion, the system was shut down and […]
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Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts discovered over 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. Millions of voter records are available for sale on the Dark Web, experts from Anomali and Intel 471 discovered 35 million US voter records for sale in a hacking forum. […]
More than 685 million users may have been exposed to XSS attacks due to a flaw in Branch.io service used by Tinder, Shopify, and many others. Security Affairs was the first to publish the news of a DOM-XSS Bug Affecting Tinder, Shopify, Yelp, and other dating application. The flaws were disclosed a few days ago by […]
Pentagon – Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The Pentagon revealed that the Defense Department travel records suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The data breach […]
Facebook data breach – The company provided an updated for the data breach it disclosed at the end of September, hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users. Facebook announced that hackers accessed data of 29 Million users, a number that is less than initially thought of 50 million. The hackers did not affect Facebook-owned Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, […]
Fitmetrix fitness software company exposed customer data online, a 119GB archive containing name, gender, email address, birth date, height, weight and more A fitness software company Fitmetrix may have exposed a database hosted on AWS containing millions of customer records. The exposed records included name, gender, email address, birth date, home and work phone, height, weight and […]
Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI, the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. Business email compromise (BEC) and email account […]
This is a very bad news for Google that suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of over 500,000 of Google Plus users to third-party developers. As a consequence of the data exposure, the company is going to shut down the social media network Google+. The root cause of the data breach is a security […]