Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2023
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
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
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, 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
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
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 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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2023
Personal data of the personnel at the Dublin Airport was compromised due to a MOVEit attack on professional service provider Aon. Data of about 3000 employees of Dublin Airport (DDA) were compromised after professional service provider Aon fell victim to a MOVEit Transfer attack. Dublin Airport notified local authorities and Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. Aon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2023
Microsoft denied the data breach after the collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked the company. In early June, Microsoft suffered severe outages for some of its services, including Outlook email, OneDrive file-sharing apps, and the cloud computing infrastructure Azure. A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for […]
