Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2021
This service allows checking if your mobile is included in the Facebook leak

Security researcher implemented a service to verify if your mobile number is included in the recent Facebook data leak. Security researcher Yaser Alosefer developed a new tool to help users to determine if their mobile numbers are included within the recent Facebook data leak that impacted 553 million users of the social networking giant. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2021
2,5M+ users can check whether their data were exposed in Facebook data leak

You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Data of 533 million Facebook users leaked in a hacking forum for free

On April 3, a user has leaked the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users in a hacking forum for free online. Bad news for Facebook, a user in a hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users. The availability of the data was first […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Capital One discovered more customers’ SSNs exposed in 2019 hack

More clients of Capital One have been impacted in the 2019 data breach, the US bank is notifying them of their SSNs exposure. US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. A hacker that was going […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
Ubiquiti security breach may be a catastrophe

The data breach disclosed by Ubiquiti in January could be just the tip of the iceberg, a deeper incident could have hit the company. In January, American technology vendor Ubiquiti Networks suffered a data breach, it sent out notification emails to its customers asking them to change their passwords and enable 2FA for their accounts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2021
Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Ata Hakcil led the team of white hat hackers from WizCase in identifying a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’ websites. The data from FBS.com and FBS.eu comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Were such detailed personally identifiable information (PII) to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2021
SolarWinds hackers stole some of Mimecast source code

Cybersecurity firm Mimecast confirmed that SolarWinds hackers who breached its network stole some of its source code. Back in December, the SolarWinds supply chain attack made the headlines when a Russian cyber espionage group tampered with updates for SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management products that the IT company provides to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices. Mimecast was […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2021
10,000+ WeLeakInfo customer records leaked

An actor claimed to have registered one of the domains of WeLeakInfo, accessed details of 10000+ WeLeakInfo’ s customers, and leaked it. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2021
Hackers compromised Microsoft Exchange servers at the EU Banking Regulator EBA

The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed a cyberattack that resulted in the hack of its Microsoft Exchange email system. The European Banking Authority announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack against its email system that exploited recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2021
Millions of travelers of several airlines impacted by SITA data breach

SITA, a multinational IT company that provides services to the air transport industry was the victim of cyberattack that impacted multiple airlines. SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry. The company provides its services to around 400 members and 2,800 customers worldwide, which it claims is about 90% of the world’s airline business. Around the world, nearly […]