Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2021
Microsoft Defender uses Intel TDT technology against crypto-mining malware

Microsoft announced an improvement of its Defender antivirus that will leverage Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to detect processes associated with crypto-miners. Microsoft announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, its commercial version of Windows 10 Defender antivirus, implements a new mechanism that leverages Intel’s Threat Detection Technology (TDT) to block cryptojacking malware using Cryptojacking malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2021
Crooks stole driver’s license numbers from Geico auto insurer

Car insurance provider Geico has suffered a data breach, attackers have stolen the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has suffered a data breach, threat actors exploited a now-fixed bug in their website to steal the driver’s licenses for policyholders for several weeks. Geico provided coverage for […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2021
LinkedIn confirmed that it was not a victim of a data breach

LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2021
Personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users leaked online

An SQL database containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online for free, a few days after LinkedIn and Facebook suffered similar leaks. Researchers from Cyber News have discovered that the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data leaks. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
User database was also hacked in the recent hack of PHP ‘s Git Server

The maintainers of the PHP programming language confirmed that threat actors may have compromised a user database containing their passwords. The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed […]

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. […]