Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2023
National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacted approximately 900 US schools

U.S. educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that provides educational verification and reporting services to educational institutions, employers, and other organizations The organization has disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2023
City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2023
Information of Air Canada employees exposed in recent cyberattack

Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, announced that the personal information of some employees was exposed as a result of a recent cyberattack. Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some employees during a recent cyberattack. “An […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2023
Space and defense tech maker Exail Technologies exposes database access

Exail Technologies, a high-tech manufacturer whose clients include the US Coast Guard, exposed sensitive company data that could’ve enabled attackers to access its databases. Exail, a French high-tech industrial group, left exposed a publicly accessible environment (.env) file with database credentials, the Cybernews research team has discovered. The company, formed in 2022 after ECA Group […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
Microsoft AI research division accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38TB of sensitive while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub. The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active consumer in the United States”. A threat actor who […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2023
CardX released a data leak notification impacting their customers in Thailand

One of Thailand’s major digital financial platforms, CardX, recently disclosed a data leak that affected their customers. According to the statement published on the CardX official website on September 15th, the company experienced a cybersecurity incident that exposed personal information related to personal loan and cash card applications. This information includes the customer’s first and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police disclosed a data breach

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
Threat actor leaks sensitive data belonging to Airbus

The multinational aerospace corporation Airbus has launched an investigation into the recent leak of information allegedly stolen from the company. The multinational aerospace corporation Airbus announced that it is investigating a data leak after cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reported that a hacker posted information on thousands of the company’s vendors to the dark web. A threat actor who goes […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023
Save the Children confirms it was hit by cyber attack

The international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children International was recently hit with a cyberattack. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The company disclosed the security incident after the ransomware gang BianLian listed the organization on its Tor leak site. The BianLian extortion group claims […]