Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 189 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      CVE-2018-15961: Adobe ColdFusion Flaw exploited in attacks in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2018
Million password resets and 2FA codes exposed in unsecured Vovox DB

Million of password resets and two-factor authentication codes exposed in unsecured Vovox DB. Sébastien Kaul, a security researcher based in Berlin, has discovered a poorly secured database owned by communication firm Vovox that contained left names, phone numbers, tens of millions of SMS messages, temporary passwords, two-factor codes, shipping alerts, and other information belonging to customers of companies […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2018
Cathay Pacific waited six months before disclosing the security breach

Cathay Pacific has admitted that it was under attack for three months and it took six months to disclose the data breach. At the end of October, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, the flag carrier of Hong Kong, announced that had suffered a major data breach affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. Exposed data includes passport numbers, identity […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 188 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2018
689,272 plaintext records of Amex India customers exposed online

Records associated with 689,272 plaintext records Amex India customers were exposed online via unsecured MongoDB server. Personal details of nearly 700,000 American Express (Amex India) India customers were exposed online via an unsecured MongoDB server. The huge trove of data was discovered by Bob Diachenko from cybersecurity firm Hacken, most of the records were encrypted, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2018
HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a security breach

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between October 4 and October 14, unknown attackers were able to access online accounts of the financial institution. Exposed info […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 187 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2018
Top Australia Defence company Austal notifies a serious security breach

Austal, a top Australia defence firm reports also working with the United States Navy has suffered a serious security breach. Austal, a top Australia defence firm reports working with the US Navy has suffered a serious security breach, hackers accessed to personnel files and that it was the subject of an extortion attempt. Austal reported the data breach to the Australian Securities […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2018
FIFA was hacked again, this is the second hack in a year

According to the New York Times, FIFA has suffered the second hack in a year, new documents are set to be published on Friday by Football Leaks. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, aka FIFA, is a governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer. FIFA reveals it was the victim of a new successful phishing campaign that resulted in the exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2018
The Radisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach

The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information of the members of its loyalty scheme. The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information (name, address (including country of residence), email address, and in some cases, company name, phone number, Radisson Rewards member number, and […]