Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2020
Online marketing company exposes 38+ million US citizen records

CyberNews researchers discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media containing close to 39 million US citizen records. Original post: https://cybernews.com/security/online-marketing-company-exposes-data-of-millions-americans/ The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket that belongs to View Media, an online marketing company. The bucket contains close to 39 million US citizen records, including their full names, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2020
Details of millions of U.S. Voters leaked to Russia’s Dark Web forum

Russia’s Kommersant business newspaper reported that a database containing millions of American voters’ details has appeared on the Russian dark web. A database containing several million American voters’ personal information has appeared on the Russian dark web, Russia’s Kommersant business newspaper reported this week. The news is worrisome due to the upcoming presidential elections in the US and the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2020
350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Experts found an unsecured data bucket containing seven gigabytes worth of unencrypted files that include 350,000,000 strings of unique email addresses. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/350-million-email-addresses-left-exposed-on-an-unsecured-server/ The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured data bucket owned by an unidentified party, containing seven gigabytes worth of unencrypted files that include 350,000,000 strings of unique email addresses. The massive trove […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2020
Popular Freepik site discloses data breach impacting 8.3M users

Freepik, one of the most popular online graphic resources sites online has disclosed a security breach that impacted 8.3 Million users. Freepik, the popular website that provides high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed a major security breach that impacted 8.3 Million users. Freepik says that hackers were able to steal emails and password hashes for […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2020
Experian South Africa discloses data breach, 24 million customers impacted

The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed this week a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. The company revealed that only personal information was exposed in the data breach, no financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2020
Sodinokibi ransomware gang stole 1TB of data from Brown-Forman

Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced on Friday to have hacked Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. firm in the spirits and wine business. Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware operators announced last week to have breached the network of the Brown-Forman, one of the largest U.S. firm in the spirits and wine business. Threat actors claim to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2020
Maze ransomware gang leaked Canon USA’s stolen files

Maze ransomware operators have leaked online the unencrypted files allegedly stolen from Canon during a recent ransomware attack. According to an internal memo obtained by ZDNet last week, the recent outage suffered by Canon was caused by a ransomware attack, at the same time Maze ransomware operators were taking the credit for the incident. The memo […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2020
Threat actor leaked data for U.S. gun exchange site on hacking forum

A threat actor has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange and hunting sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a hacker has leaked online the databases of Utah-based gun exchange for free on a cybercrime forum. He claims the databases contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2020
SANS Institute Email Breach – 28,000 User Records exposed

The SANS Institute suffered a data breach, 28,000 user records containing personally identifiable information (PII) were exposed. On August 6, during a review of email configuration and rules, the staff at the SANS Institute discovered a security breach. 28,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been forwarded to an unknown email address. The SANS […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2020
US OCC imposed an $80 Million fine to Capital One for 2019 hack

US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over 2019 data breach. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has imposed an $80 million fine to the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp over 2019 data breach. Capital One, one of […]