Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 238

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2019
Desjardins credit union data breach bigger than initially thought

The data breach suffered by Canada Desjardins credit union last year is bigger than initially thought, it affected all 4.2 million of its customers. In June, Desjardins credit union announced a data breach that exposed personal banking information of 2.9 million customers. Unfortunately, the data breach is bigger than initially thought and affected all 4.2 million of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2019
21 Million stolen credentials from Fortune 500 companies available on the dark web

Roughly 21 million login credentials for Fortune 500 companies are available for sale, in plain text, in multiple forums and black market places in the dark web. More than 21 million login credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies are available for sale in various places on the dark web. Experts at ImmuniWeb discovered that 21,040,296 […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2019
Hackers behind Uber and Lynda hacks plead guilty in data breaches

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. The defendants have also attempted to extort money from the companies requesting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2019
Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. “On October 16, 2019, Network Solutions determined that a third-party gained unauthorized […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal suffered a payment card incident

The U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal is notifying its customers of a security breach that could have exposed their payment card data. The U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal suffered a payment card data breach, the company is notifying its customers of the incident that affected one of its payment processing systems. Krystal also reported the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
UniCredit bank discloses a data breach that impacted 3 million of Italian clients

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015,  The UniCredit cybersecurity team has determined […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
Unsecured ElasticSearch DB exposed data for 7.5M Adobe Creative Cloud Users

Adobe suffered an important data leak, data for 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The tech giant Adobe suffered an important data leak, data belonging to 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The security breach took place this month […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2019
Autoclerk travel reservations platform data leak also impacts US Government and military

vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. Security experts at vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The data leak exposed sensitive personal information of thousands of users […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2019
Hackers stole card details from BriansClub carding site

BriansClub, one of the biggest a dark web “carding store,” which specializes in the sale of stolen payment card data, has been hacked.  Hackers have breached BriansClub (BriansClub[.]at), one of the biggest black market sites, that specializes in the sale of stolen credit card data. According to the security experts Brian Krebs, who first reported […]