Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) has disclosed a data leak that exposed banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million survivors. In case of national disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) offers a program called Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) that provides shelter to survivors.  News of the day is that FEMA has […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
gnosticplayers offers 26 Million new accounts for sale on the Dark Web

The hacker gnosticplayers is offering the fourth batch of millions of records stolen from 6 new websites for sale on the dark web. Gnosticplayers is back with the fourth round of hacked accounts offered for sale on the dark web. In February, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
Unprotected Elasticsearch DB exposed 33 Million job profiles in China

Security expert discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million job profiles in China.  Security expert Sanyam Jain at GDI Foundation has discovered an unprotected database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million profiles for people in China who provided their resume to job recruitment sites.  The expert discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
Secur Solutions Group data leak exposes 800,000 Singapore blood donors

Secur Solutions Group data leak – Another clamorous data leak made the headlines, personal information of 808,201 blood donors in Singapore was exposed online. The news was first reported by The Straits Times, the huge trove of data was contained in a database operated by the Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG). People who registered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2019
Payment data of thousands of customers of UK and US online stores could have been compromised

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has uncovered a malicious code designed to steal customers’ payment data on seven online stores in the UK and the US. The injected code has been identified as a new JavaScript Sniffer (JS Sniffer), dubbed by Group-IB as GMO. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team first discovered the GMO JS Sniffer on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2019
Mysterious open database included ‘BreedReady’ status for 1.8 Million Women

Expert found an open database in China containing the personal information of more than 1.8 million women, including a strange “BreedReady” status. Another data leak made the headlines, this time a database containing a creepy set of details collected on more than 1.8 million women in China was left unprotected online. The huge trove of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2019
Saudi caller ID Dalil app exposed data of more than 5 million users

The Android caller ID app Dalil exposed online data belonging over 5 million users, security experts discovered a MongoDB database left accessible on the web without a password. The MongoDB behind the Android caller ID app Dalil was left exposed online, at least for a week, without a password, leaving 5 million users accessible on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2019
More than billion records exposed online by email validation biz Verifications.io

Experts found an unprotected server exposing online 4 MongoDB databases belonging to the email validation company Verifications.io. A new mega data leak made the headlines, an unprotected MongoDB database (150GB) belonging to a marketing company exposed up to 809 million records. The archive includes 808,539,849 records containing: emailrecords = 798,171,891 records emailWithPhone = 4,150,600 records […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2019
FBI informed software giant Citrix of a security breach

The American multinational software company Citrix disclosed a security breach, according to the firm an international cyber criminals gang gained access to its internal network. The American multinational software company Citrix is the last victim of a security breach, according to the company an international cyber criminal gang gained access to its internal network, Hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2019
70000 Pakistani banks’ cards with PINs go on sale on the dark web.

Group-IB experts discovered new databases with a total of 69,189 Pakistani banks’ cards that have shown up for sale on the dark web. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has discovered new databases with a total of 69,189 Pakistani banks’ cards that have shown up for sale on the dark web. The […]