Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2019
173 Million Zynga accounts were impacted in the September hack

In September Zynga, the American social game developer running social video game services suffered a data breach that 173 Million accounts. Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Among the online games developed by the company, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2019
Champagne Bakery Cafe and Islands burger chain disclose payment card breaches

The news of two new payment card breaches made the headlines, the victims are the Islands restaurant chain and Champagne French Bakery Cafe. The new restaurant chains with locations across the U.S. disclosed payment card breaches, in both cases, attackers used PoS malware to capture card data stored in the magnetic stripe. Exposed data includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 245

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Payment card breach potentially impacts all locations of Wawa convenience store

Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach that may have exposed debit and credit card data from thousands of customers. Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security team discovered a PoS malware on its payment processing systems. Wawa operates more than 860 convenience retail stores, this breach is potentially […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2019
More than 267 millions of Facebook user phone numbers exposed online

Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. Security expert Bob Diachenko, along with Comparitech, has discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. The huge trove of data is likely the result of an […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Lab test provider LifeLabs disclose a data breach that exposed personal info of 15M customers

Lab test provider LifeLabs has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information for up to 15 million Canadians. Lab test provider LifeLabs announced that personal information for up to 15 million Canadians have been exposed after an unauthorized user gained access to their systems. LifeLabs notified its customers via letter, exposed data includes names, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2019
Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs

vpnMentor researchers discovered an unsecured server belonging to the Chinese e-store LightInTheBox.com containing 1.3TB of web server logs. Infosec researchers have uncovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing 1.3TB of web server log entries held by Chinese e-commerce website LightInTheBox.com. LightInTheBox is a Chinese online retailer trading on the New York Stock Exchange, most of its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
A thief stole hard drives containing Facebook payroll data from a car

Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 244

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool US authorities charged Dridex gang members for stealing over $100 Million A bug in the decryptor for the Ryuk ransomware could cause data loss China 3-5-2 directive orders […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2019
Rooster Teeth Productions suffered a payment card breach

Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach that exposed payment card information from shoppers on the company’s online store. The popular production company Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach, hackers have stolen credit card and other payment data from users that made purchases on the company’s online store. Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is […]