Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2022
Hackers stole sensitive data from Iran’s atomic energy agency

Iran’s atomic energy agency claims that alleged state-sponsored hackers have compromised its email system. Iran’s atomic energy agency revealed on Sunday that a nation-state actor had access to a subsidiary’s network and free access to its email system, the Associated Press reports. The Iranian government has yet to attribute the attack to a specific The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2022
EnergyAustralia Electricity company discloses security breach

Electricity company EnergyAustralia suffered a security breach, threat actors had access to information on 323 customers. Another Australian organization was hit by a severe cyber attack, this time the victim is the Electricity company EnergyAustralia. EnergyAustralia is the country’s third-largest energy retailer. The company confirmed that threat actors had access to information on 323 residential and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2022
Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health data breach potentially impacted 3M patients

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The company is notifying the impacted individuals. The healthcare system operates 26 hospitals in Wisconsin and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2022
BlueBleed: Microsoft confirmed data leak exposing customers’ info

Microsoft disclosed a data leak, sensitive data of some of its customers were exposed by a misconfigured Microsoft server accessible online. Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. The data leak was discovered by the security threat intelligence firm SOCRadar […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2022
Retail giant Woolworths discloses data breach of MyDeal online marketplace

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 million MyDeal customers. Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 million of them. As soon the company became aware of the security breach it blocked access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
DJI drone tracking data exposed in the US

Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in the leak of a database containing information from airspace monitoring devices manufactured by DJI. Original post at CyberNews: https://cybernews.com/privacy/dji-drone-tracking-data-exposed-in-us/ Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in a data leak after a database containing information from dozens of airspace monitoring devices manufactured by the Chinese-owned DJI was left accessible […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2022
Toyota discloses accidental leak of some customers’ personal information

Toyota Motor Corporation discloses data leak, customers’ personal information may have been exposed after an access key was exposed on GitHub. Toyota Motor Corporation warns customers that their personal information may have been accidentally exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. The carmaker discovered recently that a portion […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2022
Everest gang demands $200K for data stolen from South Africa state-owned electricity company ESKOM

Everest ransomware operators claimed to have hacked South Africa state-owned company ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. In March 2022, the Everest ransomware operators published a notice announcing the sale of “South Africa Electricity company’s root access” for $125,000. Eskom transforms inputs from the natural environment – coal, nuclear, fuel, diesel, water, and wind – into more […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2022
City of Tucson Data Breach impacted 123,500 individuals

The City of Tucson, Arizona disclosed a data breach, the incident was discovered in May 2022 and impacted 123,500 individuals. The security breach was discovered at the end of May 2022 and concluded the investigation in September. According to the notification letter sample provided to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, over 123,500 were impacted have been impacted […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2022
19-Year-Old man arrested for misusing leaked record from Optus Breach

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to use data leaked after the Optus data breach in a fraudulent scheme aimed at extorting […]