Experts discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing personally identifiable and tax information of Russian citizens exposed online. Security experts from Comparitech along with security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens exposed online in clear text and without protection. The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally […]
The ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, has been hacked and data belonging to nearly 245,000 registered users were exposed. Hackers breached the ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, accessing login credentials of nearly 245,000 users registered with the Comodo Forums websites. Comodo has not specified which of its […]
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. Once again thank you! 0patch will provide micropatches for Windows […]
Hackers have stolen more than 218 million records from the popular ‘Words With Friends’ developed by the mobile social game company Zynga Inc. Do you remember Gnosticplayers? The popular hacker Gnosticplayers that between February and April disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in five rounds. He offered for sale almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 […]
DoorDash is a San Franciscoâbased on-demand food delivery service, the company confirmed it has suffered a data breach that exposed roughly 5 million users. DoorDash announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants. According to the data breach notification sent to the impacted customers and the security note published […]
Another day, another embarrassing data leak made the headlines, the online dating app Heyyo left a server exposed on the internet. The online dating app Heyyo left a server exposed on the internet without protection, data were stored on an Elasticsearch instance. The exposed data included personal details, images, location data, phone numbers, and dating […]
The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The online education platform for developers Thinkful has suffered a data breach, just a few days after it has announced it would be acquired by the education tech firm Chegg for […]
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. Once again thank you! A bug in Instagram exposed user […]
Tens of millions of records belonging to passengers of two airline companies owned by Lion Air have been exposed and exchanged on forums. Data belonging to passengers of two airline companies owned by Lion Air have been exposed and exchanged on forums. The information was left exposed online on an unsecured Amazon bucket, the records […]
Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Data were left unsecured online on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, exposed data […]