Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2017
Zomato Data breach – Nearly 17 million usernames and hashed passwords stolen

Nearly 17 million Zomato usernames and hashed passwords have been stolen by hackers., the company suspects it is an insider’s job. Nearly 17 million Zomato usernames and hashed passwords have been stolen by hackers. Zomato is the Indian largest online restaurant guide, the company confirmed data breach announcing that hackers have stolen accounts details of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2017
Bell Canada hacked, 1.9 million customer account details stolen by hackers

The telco giant Bell Canada was the victim of a security breach that exposed roughly two million customer account details. The long string of data breach continues, while I’m writing about the intrusion in the systems of the technology provider DocuSign, another incident made the headlines, this time the victim is Bell Canada. The company admitted on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2017
The Electronic signature technology provider DocuSign suffered a data breach

Hackers broke into the system of the technology provider DocuSign and accessed customers email addresses. The experts warn of possible spear phishing attacks. The Electronic signature technology provider DocuSign suffered a data breach, hackers have stolen email addresses from one of its servers. On Monday the company informed its customers of the data breach and warned them of fake […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2017
Cyber criminals claim to have stolen the new episode of the Pirates of the Caribbean film saga

Crooks claim have stolen the Walt Disney’s forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film and are threatening to release it in 20 minutes chunks. Cybercriminals claim have stolen the Walt Disney’s forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film and are threatening to release it online if the company will not pay the ransom. CEO Bob Iger, told a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2017
Vault7 – Wikileaks published documentation for AfterMidnight and Assassin malware

WikiLeaks Reveals two distinct malware platforms codenamed AfterMidnight and Assassin used by the CIA operators to target Windows systems. While critical infrastructure worldwide and private organizations were ridiculed by the WannaCry attack, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA documents from the Vault 7 leaks. The new dump included the documentation related to two CIA frameworks used to create […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017
Travel Tech Giant Sabre suffered a Data Breach, traveler data potentially at risk

Travel giant Sabre investigating a data breach that could have exposed payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through its reservations system. Another day, another data breach, this time the victim is the Travel Tech Giant Sabre that in a SEC filing confirmed it is “investigating an incident involving unauthorized access to payment information contained in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017
Information Security Practices of Aadhaar – 135 Million Indian government payment card details leaked

A CIS study estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through 4 gov portals could be around 135 million and 100M bank account numbers. The Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the system is crucial for both authenticating and authorizing transactions and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2017
Ourmine hackers breached into the Unity Forum

Ourmine hackers breached into the Unity Forum and informed its users that they had gained access to a database containing the details of 2 million records. The notorious hacker group OurMine made the headlines once again, this time the victim it the Unity Game Engine forum. The group has defaced and hacked the Unity forum over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2017
Expert discovered online data belonging to the trading firm AMP

Security expert Chris Vickery reported a data breach at online trading firm AMP that exposed customer credit reports, and Social Security numbers. The popular security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new data breach that affected the AMP online trading firm that exposed thousands of files, including credit reports, passport scans, and customer chat logs. This specific […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2017
Atlassian HipChat group chat service hacked, change your password now!

Atlassian announced that unknown hackers broke into a cloud server of the company and accessed a huge amount of data of its group chat service HipChat. On Monday, Atlassian reset user passwords for its group chat service HipChat after it notified its customers of a data breach.  Unknown hackers broke into a cloud server of […]