Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2019
CafePress Data Breach exposes technical details of 23 Million users

CafePress, the popular T-Shirt and merchandise website, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal details of 23 million of their customers. CafePress, the popular T-Shirt and merchandise website, disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal details of 23 million of their customers. The news was publicly reported by the data breach notification service […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2019
StockX hacked, customers’ data offered for sale on the dark web

StockX, the live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, announced a data breach. StockX is a live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, the company announced that the sneaker and streetwear buying platform had been hacked. An unauthorized user was able to access customer data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2019
Poshmark, the social commerce marketplace, discloses a data breach

Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach. On August 1, the US social commerce marketplace Poshmark disclosed a data breach. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 225 and Important Update

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs 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. Once again thank you! Crooks used rare Steganography technique […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2019
Cyber attacks hit Louisiana schools ahead of year’s beginning

A wave of cyber attacks hit schools of Louisiana ahead of year’s beginning that is planned for the next week. Several schools of Louisiana were targeted by hackers ahead of year’s beginning that is planned for the next week. The AP press states that a fourth Louisiana school district is assessing damages caused by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2019
LAPD data breach exposes personal info of thousands of officers

While Capital One incident is making the headlines, another incident may have severe consequences, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) also suffered a data breach. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) suffered a data breach that exposed the names, email addresses, passwords, and birth dates for thousands of police officers and applicants. The NBCLosAngeles confirmed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2019
Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest

Capital One, one of the largest U.S. –card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2019
Stock trading service Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext for some users

Stock trading service Robinhood announced that the passwords of a number of users were stored in plaintext, the company is informing impacted ones. Stock trading service Robinhood admitted to have stored passwords of a number of users in plain text, the company is informing impacted ones via email. “When you set a password for your […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2019
Hackers published a list of allegedly phished Discord login credentials

Last week, hackers published a list of Discord credentials (email addresses/passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. Last week, a group of hackers published a list of Discord login credentials (email addresses and passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. Fortunately, the list […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2019
WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach. According to The Wall Street Journal, Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2017 data breach. The security breach suffered by Equifax in 2017 exposed […]