Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2016
A man has found a 30-gigabyte hard drive at a recycling depot in Halifax containing at least 10 GB Canadian military data. According to the Canadian CBC, a man named Pete Stevens has found a 30-gigabyte hard drive at a recycling depot in Halifax. The media support contains personal information including the names and numbers of defence […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2016
The Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a total of 250 of its resorts were compromised last year in a malware-based attack that stole customer payment card information. Hyatt Hotels revealed that 250 of its resorts have been involved in the data breach suffered last year. In December the Hyatt Hotels Corporation issued an official announcement to inform its users that unknown hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2016
The TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable is warning customers their emails and passwords may have been exposed. Nearly 320,000 of the TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable customers urge to change their passwords for the email account. The measure has been requested by the company in response to alleged unauthorized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a misconfigured archive exposes the personal details of 191 million U.S. voters. A misconfigured database is the root cause of the exposure of around 191 Million voter records. The records include voters’ full names, unique voter IDs, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2015
Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced it recently discovered malware used to steal credit card data on its payment processing systems. The Hyatt Hotels Corporation is the last victim of cyber criminals using PoS malware. The company announced Wednesday that a malware has infected its payment systems. According to the official announcement issued by Hyatt the company is still […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2015
The researcher Chris Vickery has discovered a database leak that exposed 3.3 million accounts belonging to Hello Kitty fans. The database of the official online community for Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters, the sanriotown.com, has suffered a data breach. The researcher Chris Vickery has discovered online a database exposing 3.3 million accounts belonging to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2015
The collective Anonymous has compromised the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal information of thousands of subscribers and officials. The hacking collective Anonymous seems to be very active in this period, its last victim is the European Space Agency. Members of Anonymous have breached a number of subdomains of the European Space […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2015
A criminal named Hacker Buba after asking UAE bank for $3 million ransom started leaking customer data online. Last week a hacker, who named itself as ‘Hacker Buba,’ breached a United Arab Emirates Bank, then he start tweeting customersâ information announcing the disclosure of tens of thousands of customer files online if a $3 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2015
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Chinese hackers have conducted a major attack on a supercomputer operated by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). Chinese hackers have conducted a major attack on a supercomputer operated by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The news has been disclosed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The Bureau of Meteorology is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2015
Toy maker Vtech has been hacked exposing data of thousands of kids, this hack is the fourth largest consumer data breach to date. The greatest manufacturer of electronic toys Vtech, aka Video Technology Limited, was hacked. On 14 November, “an unauthorised party” managed to obtain access to the app store database of Vtech, the Learning […]
