Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2019
The Pyramid Hotel Group data leak exposes 85GB of security logs of major hotel chains

vpnMentor researches have recently discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group have suffered a data leak. vpnMentor experts have discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group, including Marriott, have suffered a data leak, vpnMentor’s research team discovered the unprotected server through port scanning to examine known IP blocks. Researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2019
Checkers double drive-thru restaurants chain discloses card breach

Checkers and Rally’s, one of the largest chains of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States, disclosed a credit card breach. “We recently became aware of a data security issue involving malware at certain Checkers and Rally’s locations.” reads a breach notice published by the company. “After discovering the issue, we quickly engaged leading data […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2019
News aggregator Flipboard disclosed a data breach

The news aggregator Flipboard announced that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user account information. The news and social media aggregator Flipboard disclosed on Tuesday that it suffered a breach, unauthorized users had access to some databases storing user information. Hackers had access to the company systems between June […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2019
First American Financial exposed 16 years’ worth of personal and financial documents

The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. The company has more than 18,000 employees and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018. Roughly 885 million insurance-related documents […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2019
Hacker breached Perceptics, a US maker of license plate readers

Perceptics, a maker of vehicle license plate scanning solutions used in the US, has been hacked, attackers stole data and offered for free on the dark web. Perceptics is a leader in license plate readers (LPRs), license plate recognition systems and vehicle identification products. The company was hacked and attackers stole data and offered business […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2019
Stack Overflow Q&A platform announced a data breach

The popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow announced on Thursday that is has suffered a data breach. The news of a data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the popular question-and-answer platform for programmers Stack Overflow. The company announced on Thursday that it has discovered unauthorized access to its production systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2019
Magecart hackers inject card Skimmer in Forbes Subscription Site

The Magecart gang made the headlines again, the hackers this time compromised the Forbes magazine subscription website. The Magecart group is back, the hackers this time compromised injected a skimmers script into the Forbes magazine subscription website. The malicious traffic was spotted by the security expert Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, on Wednesday. Magecart hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Unprotected DB exposed PII belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens

Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Exposed data includes full names, birth dates, national ID numbers, medical insurance numbers, and other personal data. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2019
Reading the Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018

Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. For this reason, analyzing the last year occurred events would help cyber-security professionals to prevent further attacks during the next few months. In many cases the attacks […]