Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2016
Rambler.ru data breach, 98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords leaked online

The data breach notification service announced the Rambler.ru data breach, more than 98 million CLEARTEXT passwords were leaked online. While I was writing about the BuzzersForum data breach, the news of another clamorous incident is circulating online, this time, the victim is of the  Russian biggest web portals, Rambler.ru. Rambler.ru is one of the largest websites in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2016
Porn Brazzersforum hacked, nearly 800,000 Brazzers Accounts Exposed

A data breach affected a the Brazzersforum resulting in the exposure of  800,000 accounts of the popular porn site Brazzers. Another week starts with a data breach, roughly 800,000 accounts of the porn site Brazzers have been compromised. The data breach affected a separate forum, anyway, Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2016
Leakedsource breach notification service reported two Bitcoin Data Breaches

Now LeakedSource disclosed details from two Bitcoin data breaches that affected the bitcoin exchange BTC-E.com and the discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. The data breach notification service LeakedSource is becoming familiar to my readers, recently it reported the data breach suffered by many IT services, including Last.fm and DropBox, both occurred in 2012. Now LeakedSource disclosed details from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2016
Azerbaijani Anti-Armenia Team of hacktivists leaked Armenian security service data

Azerbaijani Anti-Armenia Team of hacktivists leaked Armenian security service data and passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia. A group of Azerbaijani hacktivists has leaked the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia. The data breach exposed the Internal resources of the Security Service (SNS) that are involved in the process of updating information about passports […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2016
Roughly 43 Million Last.fm accounts were stolen in a 2012 security breach

According to the breach notification service LeakedSource roughly 43 million Last.fm accounts were compromised in a 2012 incident. In June 2012, the online music service Last.fm was compromised by hackers, in response the company notified the incident to its users inviting them to change their passwords. Some experts speculated the security breach took place several […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms

In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
Dropbox Data Breach, more than 68 Million account details leaked online

A DropBox data breach occurred in 2012 is forcing the company to reset login passwords for users included in a data dump leaked online. Another clamorous data breach is in the headlines, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Earlier this week, Dropbox […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2016
Minecraft World Map data breach, 71,000 accounts leaked online

The popular security expert Troy Hunt reported some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from the website Minecraft World Map. Another data breach affects the gaming industry, this time, 71,000 Minecraft World Map accounts has been leaked online after the ‘hack.’ Some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from Minecraft […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2016
Opera warns Opera Sync users of possible security breach

The Norwegian company warned the users that the Opera Sync service of a possible security breach that might have exposed their data. On Friday, Opera, published a security alert to warn its users that the Opera Sync service might have been breached. In response to the alleged incident, Opera forced a password reset for all Sync […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2016
Secret data on DCNS Scorpene submarines leaked online, it could be a disaster.

The Australian newspaper published over 22,000 secret documents on six DCNS Scorpene submarines that are being built in India. According to The Australian, Indian authorities is investigating a security breach that affected the French Submarine Firm DCNS, which is 35 percent owned by Thales. The investigation started after more than 22,000 pages related to six DCNS Scorpene […]