Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2020

CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. According to an internal report drown up after the 2016 data breach that led to the ‘Vault 7‘ data leak, a specialized CIA unit involved in the development of hacking tools and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2020

30,000+ Italian sales agents’ personal data, IDs leaked by Ariix Italia

A database allegedly belonging to Ariix Italia was exposed online on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, it includes 30,000+ Italian sales agents’ personal data. Researchers at cybernews.com recently uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 36,000 documents, including scans of passports, credit cards, and health insurance cards. The database also contains sales […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2020

Austria’s largest ISP A1 Telekom discloses security breach

A1 Telekom, the leading fixed and mobile network operator in Austria, has admitted to have suffered a security breach, following the revelation of a whistleblower. A1 Telekom Austria is the leading fixed and mobile network operator in Austria, with 5.4 million mobile and 2.3 million fixed-line customers. The company has admitted having suffered a security […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2020

Data of Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) available online

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). Researchers from cyber threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that a threat actor is offering in a darkweb black-market documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). The company manufactures a variety […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2020

Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked

The Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked, attackers are threatening to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. A hacker that goes online with the moniker “John Wick” and “Korean Hackers” claim to have hacked the Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 and now is threatening to sell the database on cybercrime […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2020

Maze Ransomware leaks files of ST Engineering group

ST Engineering is the last victim of the Maze Ransomware operators that published their data on their leak website. ST Engineering is one of the leading engineering groups worldwide, it specializes in the aerospace, electronics, land systems, and marine sectors. The group operates in more than 100 countries and reported revenue of $7.86b in FY2019. The Maze ransomware operators […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2020

Student loan company that stole millions from consumers leaks sensitive phone calls, SSNs, tax records

Researchers at Cybernews.com recently discovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) containing a huge trove of data from a student loan company. Researchers at Cybernews.com recently discovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 55,000 call recordings between loan support workers and American consumers with outstanding student loans. This open database also contains […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2020

There was no data breach in the cyberattack against Minneapolis Police

Last week a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack shut down the websites and systems of Minneapolis, but there is no evidence of a breach. Over the weekend, Anonymous demanded justice for George Floyd and threatened to ‘expose the many crimes’ of Minneapolis Police. George Floyd was killed by a white police officer by kneeling on his neck […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020

The team behind the Joomla CMS discloses a data breach

Maintainers at the Joomla open-source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach that took place last week. Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site (resources.joomla.org) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. The company did not […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020

KingNull leaks DB of Daniel’s Hosting dark web hosting provider

Earlier this year a hacker breached Daniel’s Hosting, the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services and now leaked its DB. A threat actor has leaked the database of Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services. The hacker has stolen the data in March when […]

Data Breach

CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

30,000+ Italian sales agents’ personal data, IDs leaked by Ariix Italia

Austria’s largest ISP A1 Telekom discloses security breach

Data of Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) available online

Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked

Maze Ransomware leaks files of ST Engineering group

Student loan company that stole millions from consumers leaks sensitive phone calls, SSNs, tax records

There was no data breach in the cyberattack against Minneapolis Police

The team behind the Joomla CMS discloses a data breach

KingNull leaks DB of Daniel’s Hosting dark web hosting provider

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