Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
U.S. charges Iranian state-sponsored hacker over ‘Game of Thrones’ HBO hack

US Department of Justice charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones’ HBO Hack, he also worked with the Iranian Military. The United States charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones‘ HBO Hack. On Tuesday, the man was charged with stealing scripts and plot summaries for ‘Games of Thrones’. The Manhattan US attorney Joon Kim […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016

Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016 and paid hackers to delete stolen records. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced on Tuesday that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data of 57 million of its users, the bad news is that the company covered up the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2017
According to UIDAI, more than 200 government websites made Aadhaar system users’ details public

According to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), details for Aadhaar system were displayed on 210 government websites. The state government websites publicly displayed personal details such as names and addresses of Aadhaar users. The Aadhaar system is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2017
Cash Converters suffered a data breach, users of the old webshop are at risk

Cash Converters suffered a data breach, its old webshop that was withdrawn on 22 September was hacked and attackers gained unauthorised access to customer data The High street pawnbroker Cash Converters, which sells small loans and second-hand jewellery, has announced it’s suffered a data breach that could put at risk some of its customers are. Customers were […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
Terabytes of US military social media surveillance miserably left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. It has happened again, other three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. The misconfigured AWS S3 buckets contain social media posts and similar pages […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2017
US retailer Forever 21 Warns customers of payment card breach at some locations

The US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it has suffered a security breach, hackers stole payment card data at some locations. Another data breach made the headlines, this time the victim is the US clothes retailer Forever 21 which announced it has suffered a security breach. According to the company, unknown hackers gain unauthorized access […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2017
The Hilton hotel chain is paying a $700,000 settlement for credit card data breaches

The Hilton hotel chain is paying a $700,000 settlement after being accused of mishandling two separate credit card data breaches. The Hilton hotel chain is paying a $700,000 settlement to the states of New York and Vermont after being accused of mishandling two separate cyber attacks that exposed financial data of its customers. The credit card breaches […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2017
Equifax earnings release: Security breach related expenses cost $87.5 Million in Q3

Equifax announced during the third quarter of 2017, it incurred $87.5 million in expenses related to the cyber attack that was reported in September. It is very difficult to estimate the overall losses caused by a cyber attack because victims incur in direct and indirect costs that aren’t easy to calculate. This week the credit reporting […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2017
Paradise Papers were the result of the hack of external attackers

Most of the Paradise Papers came from offshore legal firm Appleby, which confirms the leak came from a hack on its network and no insiders were involved. The Paradise Papers is a collection of more than 13.4 million financial documents leaked online that has shed light on how major figures in the world of business, politics, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
2014 Data Breach – 46.2 Million Malaysian Mobile phone numbers leaked online

46.2 Million Malaysian Mobile phone numbers leaked online, authorities confirmed data were stolen from government servers and databases at a dozen telcos. Millions of Malaysians have been affected by a major data breach, hackers have accessed 46.2 million cellphone accounts after they broke into government servers and databases at a dozen telcos in the country. Considering that the population […]