Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2022
Lastpass discloses the second security breach this year

LastPass disclosed a new security breach, threat actors had access to its cloud storage using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. Password management solution LastPass disclosed a new security breach, the attackers had access to a third-party cloud storage service using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. The impacted cloud storage service is […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2022
ENC Security, the encryption provider for Sony and Lexar, leaked sensitive data for over a year

CyberNews experts discovered that ENC Security, a Netherlands software company, had been leaking critical business data since May 2021. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/encsecurity-leaked-sensitive-data/ When you buy a Sony, Lexar, or Sandisk USB key or any other storage device, it comes with an encryption solution to keep your data safe. The software is developed by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2022
Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook’s users’ data from scraping. Meta has been fined â‚Ź265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for the data leak suffered by Facebook in 2021 that exposed the data belonging to millions of Facebook users. The Data Protection Commission is also imposing […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2022
Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2022
Experts investigate WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale

Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. Original post published by Cybernews: https://cybernews.com/news/whatsapp-data-leak/ On November 16, an actor posted an ad on a well-known hacking community forum, claiming they were selling a 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp user mobile numbers. The dataset […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2022
Lockbit gang leaked data stolen from global high-tech giant Thales

The Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang started leaking the information allegedly stolen from the global high-tech company Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank

An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor (0x_dump) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2022
Medibank confirms ransomware attack impacting 9.7M customers, but doesn’t pay the ransom

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million current and former customers were exposed as a result of a ransomware attack. Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M of current and former customers were exposed as a result of a recent ransomware attack. Medibank is one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2022
LockBit ransomware gang claims the hack of Continental automotive group

The LockBit ransomware group claimed to have hacked the multinational automotive group Continental and threatens to leak stolen data. LockBit ransomware gang announced to have hacked the German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company Continental. The group added the name of the company to its Tor leak site and is threatening to publish alleged stolen data if the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022
Snatch group claims to have hacked military provider HENSOLDT France

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked the French company HENSOLDT France. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT France offers a wide range of critical electronics solutions, products and services for the aeronautical, defence, energy and transport sectors, […]