Equifax data breach may affect 2.5 million more customers than originally stated, the overall number of exposed individuals reached 145.5 million. Earlier this week, Equifax announced that additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were exposed as a result of the massive data breach that affected the company in September. The credit reporting agency confirmed that a total of […]
R6DB online gaming service that provides statistics for Rainbow Six Siege gamers, was hit by hackers who wiped its database and held the data for ransom. The gaming industry is a privileged target for hackers, in the past several groups targeted the major company in the industry for profit and fun. This time hackers targeted […]
News of the day is that another big company suffered a security breach, the victim is the Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods Market has around 500 stores in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the company acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August, it now notified customers a credit […]
The accountancy firm Deloitte announced it is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised its global email server. Today the accountancy firm giant Deloitte revealed that is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. According to The Guardian that first reported the incident, hackers may have accessed company […]
Login credentials for 540K records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. Another day, another data breach to report, login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. The incident […]
Experts at Kromtech Security Research Center discovered a new Verizon leak exposed confidential and sensitive data on internal systems. It has happened again, security researchers with Kromtech Security Research Center discovered a new Verizon leak exposed confidential and sensitive data on internal systems. Leaked data includes server logs and credentials for internal systems, the huge trove of […]
The top U.S. markets regulator SEC announced a security breach, accessed data might have been used by crooks for insider trading. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that cyber criminals had previously breached its database of corporate announcements in 2016 and likely they have used it for insider trading. On Wednesday, the SEC Chairman […]
The security researcher Chris Vickery discovered that Media giant Viacom left sensitive data and secret access key on unsecured Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Media giant Viacom left sensitive data and secret access key on unsecured Amazon AWS S3 bucket, a gift for hackers. Viacom controls Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. The huge trove of data store […]
About 400,000 Britons may have had their information stolen following the Equifax data breach, the news was reported by the UK division of the company. More details are emerging from the recent Equifax data breach that impacted approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. The attackers exploited the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability that was fixed back in March, but the company […]
The notorious OurMine hacker crew has claimed responsibility for the breach of the popular video streaming service Vevo. Another clamorous data breach made the headlines again, this time the victim is the popular video streaming service Vevo that was hacked by the popular hacking group OurMine. Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint […]