Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2018

Attackers chained three bugs to breach into the Facebook platform

Facebook has revealed additional details about the cyber attack that exposed personal information of 50 million accounts. Last week, Facebook announced that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. The “View As” feature allows users to see how others see their profile, it was implemented […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2018

Security Affairs newsletter Round 182 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Hackers target Port of Barcelona, maritime operations […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2018

Uber agrees to pay $148 million in massive 2016 data breach settlement

Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data (names, email addresses and cellphone numbers) […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2018

SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 million users

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 million customers. The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. SHEIN is now notifying affected users and it is urging them to change the password for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2018

A bug in Twitter Account Activity API exposed users messages to wrong developers

An issue in Twitter Account Activity API has exposed some users’ direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets to wrong developers. A bug in Twitter Account Activity API has exposed some users’ direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers. “We recently published a notice about a bug related to our Account Activity API that could have […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2018

Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Cyber attack took offline flight display screens at […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2018

US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system

The US State Department confirmed that hackers breached one of its email systems, the attack potentially exposed personal information of some of its employees. The incident seems to have affected less than 1% of employee inboxes, 600-700 employees out of 69,000 people. “The Department recently detected activity of concern in its unclassified email system, affecting less […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2018

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data ready to use

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. The operator of the service shared the file with the popular expert Troy Hunt […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2018

MageCart crime gang is behind the British Airways data breach

An investigation conducted by researchers at RiskIQ revealed that the responsible of the British Airways data breach is a crime gang tracked as MageCart. The responsible of the recently disclosed British Airways data breach is a crime gang tracked as MageCart. The group has been active since at least 2015 and compromised many e-commerce websites to steal payment card and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2018

Security Affairs newsletter Round 179 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · John McAfees Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet was hacked by […]

Data Breach

Attackers chained three bugs to breach into the Facebook platform

Security Affairs newsletter Round 182 – News of the week

Uber agrees to pay $148 million in massive 2016 data breach settlement

SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 million users

A bug in Twitter Account Activity API exposed users messages to wrong developers

Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week

US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system

Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data ready to use

MageCart crime gang is behind the British Airways data breach

Security Affairs newsletter Round 179 – News of the week

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