Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2016
PhineasFisher explained how he breached the Hacking Team

The hacker PhineasFisher published a detailed explanation of how he has hacked the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team. In July 2015, the surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a serious security breach, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data (including emails, internal documents, and exploit source code), but since now no news regarding the attack was disclosed. Now the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2016
Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Gov

The Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Government, more than 43 GB of Data available Online The hacker group named Cyber Justice Team leaked 10 GB of compressed data (when decompressed are over 43 GB of data) from several Syrian government and private companies. The group claimed to have hacked Linux […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2016
Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC. It is the biggest government related data breach

Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC database, the incident exposed records of more than 55 million voters, it is the biggest gov-related data breach. A few days ago I reported the news on the availability online of a database containing data of more than 50 million Turkish citizens, now IT security community is discussing another clamorous data […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016
Is the hack of an email server behind the Panama Papers?

Which is the source of Panama Papers? According to Mossack the hackers breached its systems, according to the experts its email server was breached. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was leaked online during the weekend, it is largest data leaks ever. The entire archive […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2016
DB with records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens Leaked Online. Are they recycled data?

A database containing records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens appeared online in the weekend. Is it a new or a recycled archive? Details of almost 50 Million Turkish citizens have been leaked online, the bulk data was hosted on a server with the IP address 185.100.87.84. The archive was published during the weekend, the publishers claim they it belongs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2016
vBulletin resets passwords after a targeted attack

vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week that breached one of the Germany servers, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset. vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset. According to the vBulletin developer Paul Marsden one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2016
Hackers stole records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise

Hackers reportedly stole the records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise which are offered for sale in the criminal underground. According to KrebsOnSecurity, data leaked after a security reach at Verizon Enterprise Solutions are available in the cyber criminal underground. Records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise are available for sale, the entire archive is offered for $100,000, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
American Express issued a notice of data breach

American Express is informing cardholders that their payment card data may have been exposed after a third-party service provider suffered a security breach. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, this time, American Express is warning Cardholders of a possible incident occurred to a third party service provider. The name of the affected service provider […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2016
Anonymous leaked 18GB of data belonging to the Turkish national police

Members of the Anonymous group have stolen 18GB worth of data belonging to Turkey’s national police force and leaked it online. The group of hacktivists Anonymous has just released roughly 18GB of sensitive data belonging to the Turkey’s national police. The hackers have accessed the database of the Turkish General Directorate of Security (EGM) and leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2016
Hackers leaked DHS staff records, 200GB of files are in their hands

A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]