Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2021
New Zealand central bank hit by a cyber attack

A cyber attack hit the New Zealand central bank, sensitive information has been potentially accessed by the intruders The New Zealand central bank announced today that a cyber attack hit its infrastructure. According to the Government organization, one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker, commercially and personally sensitive information might have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2021
Dassault Falcon Jet hit by Ragnar Locker ransomware gang

Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. In December Dassault, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ) was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. The data security incident also exposed information belonging to employees’ spouses […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2021
Unsecured Git server exposed Nissan North America

A misconfigured Git server is the root cause for the leak of source code of mobile apps and internal tools belonging to Nissan North America. A misconfigured Git server has caused the leak of the source code of mobile apps and internal software used by Nissan North America. The situation is embarrassing because the software […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2021
SolarWinds hackers had access to roughly 3% of US DOJ O365 mailboxes

The US DoJ revealed that threat actors behind the SolarWinds attack have gained access to roughly 3% of the department’s O365 mailboxes. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) published a press release to confirm that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to access thousands of mailboxes of its employees. “On […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2021
Over 200 million records of Chinese Citizens for Sale on the Darkweb

During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found threat actors selling 200 million+ Records of Chinese Citizens. During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found multiple posts where threat actors are offering for sale alleged data leaks related to Chinese citizens. Data might have been stolen from […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2021
Top data breaches of 2020 – Security Affairs

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks. Below […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Alleged docs relating to Covid-19 vaccine leaked in darkweb

Experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found documents relating to Covid-19 vaccine of European Medicines Agency in the Darkweb Security experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found several documents relating to the Covid-19 vaccine allegedly stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) leaked in the Darkweb. While the pandemic is spreading on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2020
Threat actor is selling 368.8 million records from 26 data breaches

A data breach broker is selling user records allegedly from twenty-six data breaches on a hacker forum. Security experts from Bleeping Computer reported that a threat actor is selling user records allegedly stolen from twenty-six companies on a hacker forum. The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8 million stolen user […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2020
T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. The T-Mobile security staff discovered “malicious, unauthorized access” to their systems. “We are reaching out to let you know about a security incident we recently identified and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2020
Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries discloses security breach

Japanese giant Kawasaki Heavy Industries discovered unauthorized access to a Japanese company server from multiple overseas offices. Kawasaki Heavy Industries disclosed a security breach, the company discovered unauthorized access to a Japanese company server from multiple overseas offices. Information from its overseas offices might have been stolen as a result of a security breach that […]