Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2021
McDonald’s discloses data breach in US, Taiwan and South Korea

McDonald’s fast-food chain disclosed a data breach, hackers have stolen information belonging to customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue, has disclosed a data breach that impacted customers and employees from the US, South Korea, and Taiwan. The hackers compromised the system of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2021
Volkswagen discloses data breach, 3.3 million customers impacted

Volkswagen America discloses a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal details of more than 3.3 million of its customers. Volkswagen America discloses a data breach suffered by a third-party vendor used by the car vendor for sales and marketing purposes. The security breach affected a subsidiary Audi and authorized dealers in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2021
Hackers stole data from the network of the gaming giant Electronic Arts

Hackers breached the network of the gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) and have stolen roughly 780 GB of data, including game source code and tools. Hackers have compromised the network of the gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) and claim to have stolen approximately 780 GB of data. The stolen data include the source code of the games, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries

RockYou2021, the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum, it contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords.  Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked/ What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. A forum user posted a massive 100GB TXT file […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2021
The dark web index 2021, report

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2021, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. Over the last couple of years, we’ve all had our attention fixed on one of two things: the global pandemic and the previous year’s presidential elections. Both issues are essential, and the pandemic has changed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2021
AMT Games data breach: Millions of Users’ Messages, Account IDs, and IP Addresses Exposed

WizCase’s security team discovered an unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by AMT Games which exposed 1.47 TB of data. This leak exposed users’ email addresses, IP addresses, Facebook data, and more to potential attack. The leaked data numbers in the millions and was accessible to anyone who possessed the link. There was no need for a password or […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2021
Database, source code allegedly related to bulletproof hosting, once Parler’s service provider, up for sale on hacker forum

Group-IB discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company specializing in investigating and preventing hi-tech cybercrimes, has discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2021
Canada Post disclosed a ransomware attack on a third-party service provider

Canada Post disclosed a ransomware attack on a third-party service provider that exposed shipping information for their customers. Canada Post announced that a ransomware attack on a third-party service provider exposed shipping information for their customers. Canada Post is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada, it provides service to more than 16 million Canadian […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2021
Hackers compromised Japanese government offices via Fujitsu ‘s ProjectWEB tool

Threat actors have compromised offices of multiple Japanese agencies via Fujitsu ‘s ProjectWEB information sharing tool. Threat actors have breached the offices of multiple Japanese agencies after they have gained access to projects that uses the Fujitsu ‘s ProjectWEB information sharing tool. ProjectWEB is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for enterprise collaboration and file-sharing that was […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2021
Air India suffered a data breach, 4.5 million customers impacted

Air India disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 4.5 million of its customers, two months after its Passenger Service System provider SITA was hacked. Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5 million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. 26, 2011 and February. 3, 2021. Customers’ […]