Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2018

35 million US voter records available for sale in a hacking forum

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. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2018

Branch.io Flaws may have affected as many as 685 million individuals

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2018

Pentagon Defense Department travel records data breach

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2018

Facebook Data Breach Update: attackers accessed data of 29 Million users

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, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2018

Fitmetrix fitness software company may have exposed millions of customer records

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2018

BEC scams, hacked accounts available from $150 up to $5,000

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2018

Google was aware of a flaw that exposed over 500,000 of Google Plus users, but did not disclose it

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018

Sales intel firm Apollo data breach exposed more than 200 million contact records

The sales intelligence firm Apollo is the last victim of a massive data breach that exposed more than 200 million contact records. Apollo collects a lot of its information from public sources, including names, email addresses, and company contact information, it also gathers data by scraping Twitter and LinkedIn. The company already notified the security breach to […]

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 […]

Data Breach

35 million US voter records available for sale in a hacking forum

Branch.io Flaws may have affected as many as 685 million individuals

Pentagon Defense Department travel records data breach

Facebook Data Breach Update: attackers accessed data of 29 Million users

Fitmetrix fitness software company may have exposed millions of customer records

BEC scams, hacked accounts available from $150 up to $5,000

Google was aware of a flaw that exposed over 500,000 of Google Plus users, but did not disclose it

Sales intel firm Apollo data breach exposed more than 200 million contact records

Attackers chained three bugs to breach into the Facebook platform

Security Affairs newsletter Round 182 – News of the week

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