Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2023
Data of all serving police officers Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly published online

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly shared sensitive data of all 10,000 serving police officers in response to a FOI request. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has mistakenly shared sensitive data of all 10,000 serving police officers in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The request aimed at determining the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2023
LockBit threatens to leak medical data of cancer patients stolen from Varian Medical Systems

The LockBit ransomware group threatens to leak medical data of cancer patients stolen from Varian Medical Systems. The LockBit ransomware group claims to have hacked the healthcare company Varian Medical Systems and threatens to leak the medical data of cancer patients. Varian Medical Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services medical devices and software products […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2023
UK Electoral Commission discloses a data breach

The UK Electoral Commission suffered a data breach that exposed voters’ personal information between 2014 and 2022. The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of voters in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022. The Commission notified the Information Commissioner’s Office. “Today we announced that we have been the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2023
Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach. CDHE did not disclose the number of impacted individuals. CDHE discovered the ransomware […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2023
Burger King forgets to put a password on their systems, again

The fast food giant Burger King put their systems and data at risk by exposing sensitive credentials to the public for a second time. Original post @https://cybernews.com/security/burger-king-data-leak/ Burger King is a renowned US-based international fast food giant with a global presence of over 19 thousand restaurants and revenue of $1.8 billion. Recently, the Cybernews research […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2023
DepositFiles exposed config file, jeopardizing user security

DepositFiles, a popular web hosting service, left its environment configuration file accessible, revealing a trove of highly sensitive credentials. The recent tsunami of Cl0p-driven ransomware attacks via the MOVEit Transfer exploit is a painful reminder of the general idea behind the pessimistic “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” analogy. DepositFiles, a service boasting that it’s the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2023
Nice Suzuki, sport: shame dealer left your data up for grabs

Cybernews research team discovered that two Suzuki-authorized dealer websites were leaking customers’ sensitive information. Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Think of all the data that you leave in a dealership, including the fact that you now own a brand-new car – which […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
FIA World Endurance Championship driver passports leaked

Le Mans Endurance Management, operating the FIA World Endurance Championship’s website, exposed the data of hundreds of drivers by leaking their IDs and drivers’ licenses, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 16th, our researchers came across two misconfigured, meaning publicly exposed, Google Cloud Storage buckets. Both combined, they contained over 1.1 million files. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2023
HCA Healthcare data breach impacted 11 million patients

HCA Healthcare disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 11 million patients. HCA Healthcare this week announced that the personal information of roughly 11 million patients was compromised in a data breach. The organization discovered the security breach on July 5 when a threat actor claimed the hack on an underground […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2023
Bangladesh government website leaked data of millions of citizens

A researcher recently discovered that a Bangladesh government website leaks the personal data of citizens. The researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovered a Bangladeshi government website that was leaking the personal information of millions of Bangladesh citizens. According to TechCrunch, which first reported the news, the leaked data included full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national […]