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 […]
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 âinvestigating an incident involving unauthorized access to payment information contained in a […]
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 worldâs 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Â Unknown hackers broke into a cloud server of […]
R2Games compromised for the second time in a few years, more than one million accounts of U.S., France, German, and Russian forums compromised. Once again, the hackers target a gaming firm, the online gaming company Reality Squared Games (R2Games) has been breached for the second time in just two years. The news was reported by the data breach notification service LeakBase […]
Personal information associated with more than a million Aadhaar numbers published on Jharkhand govt website due to a technical problem. Digital identities of more than a million citizens have been exposed due to a coding error on a website maintained by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. âWe got to know about it this week […]
The InterContinental Hotels Group announced that last week payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been compromised by crooks. The multinational hotel chain owns prestigious brands like Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza. This is the second time that the InterContinental Hotels Group suffers a credit card breach, early this year the hotel chain […]
Scottrade Bank confirmed that a technical incident has exposed 20,000 customer records. a 60GB MSSQL database was accidentally left open online. It is official, the Scottrade Bank suffered a data breach that affected thousands of its customers. Online brokerage Scottrade has admitted the data breach for sensitive loan applications from roughly 20,000 customers. The incident […]