Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2018
France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2018
Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. The attacker accessed personal information of student and staff, including names, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2018
Caribou Coffee notified customers a payment card breach that hit more than 260 of its stores in the United States. A payment card breach hit over 260 Caribou Coffee stores, the companyowned by German JAB Holding Company detected the intrusion on November 28. Caribou Coffee also informed the FBI of the security breach. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2018
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) notifies employees of a data breach that exposed social security numbers and other personal information. According to the data breach notification, hackers have breached at least one of the agency’s servers, the security breach impacted both past and present employees. Website SpaceRef published a data breach notification note sent by the NASA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2018
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Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2018
InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers for 120 million Brazilian taxpayers In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2018
According to a report published by the Reuters, the massive Marriott data breach was carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. According to the Reuters, people investigating the Marriot data breach believe that it is the result of a cyberattack carried out by Chinese hackers. Last week Marriott International announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2018
Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. The email system at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, was hacked. The news was first reported by Politico, later the committee admitted the intrusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2018
Another day another illustrious victim of the data breach, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach that exposed 100 million users. On Monday, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach, unknown hackers breached its systems and accessed 100 million user data. The company is notifying the incident to the affected users and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2018
Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]
