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Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019

Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2017

Hackers leak WhatsApp screenshots and intimate photos of WWE Diva Paige

A new batch of WhatsApp screenshots and intimate photos of the WWE celebrity Diva Paige was published on a popular celebrity leak website. In March, hackers leaked online nude photos and videos of WWE Diva Paige (real name is Saraya Jade-Bevis), and now a new batch of x-rated images of the celebrity appeared on the Internet. https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/842877382298099713 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2017

6 Million Celebrities Instagram High-Profiles Data available for sale on DoxaGram

Doxagram website claims to be selling the email addresses and phone numbers of 6M High-Profiles Instagram accounts ranging from POTUS to Taylor Swift. The story began with the hack of the Selena Gomez Instagram account, a hacker hijacked it and published three nude photos of Justin Bieber. A few days later, it was reported a vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2017

Hackers exploited an Instagram flaw access celebrity profile data

An Instagram flaw allowed hackers to access profile information for high-profile users, the incident was confirmed by the company. Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many “high-profile” users. Hackers recently accessed personal information of “high-profile” users, including phone numbers and email […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2017

Selena Gomez Instagram hacked! Hackers post Bieber nude photos

Selena Gomez Instagram account has reportedly been hacked. Nude photos of singer Justin Bieber have been published by hackers. Unknown hackers have compromised the Instagram account owned by Selena Gomez and posted nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The hack doesn’t seem to be associated with the recent Fappening 2017 hack or previous Fappening cases that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2017

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, and others leaked

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, Kristen Stewart, Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn have been posted online by a celebrity leak website. It has happened again, another wave of Fappening makes the headlines. Once again celebrities have been targeted by crooks, and unfortunately, they continue to ignore security fundamentals. Once again […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2016

Crime doesn’t pay, Fappening hacker gets 18 months in jail

The person behind the Fappening case, Ryan Collins (36), received a lighter penalty than the five years prison initially on the table for the guilty plea. Do you remember the Fappening case? In 2014, a cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities was leaked online, hackers have stolen them by accessing the iCloud accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2016

Man behind The Fappening case charged with hacking celebrity accounts

Pennsylvania man behind the Fappening case Charged with hacking Apple and Google e-Mail accounts belonging to more than 100 people. The culprit of the popular Fappening case may have a name, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it charged Ryan Collins, 36, of Pennsylvania for hacking Apple and Google E-Mail accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2015

Email accounts belonging to 130 Celebrities have been Hacked

A man from the Bahamas has been charged after allegedly hacking into the email accounts belonging to 130 celebrities stealing personal information, movie scripts and sex tapes. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York , Alonzo Knowles, aka “Jeff Moxey,” is a 23-year-old man suspected to have hacked into the email […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2015

Symantec spotted a wide spam operation on Twitter

Security experts at Symantec security firm have uncovered a persistent diet spam operation on Twitter that presents interesting aspects. In July 2014, experts at Symantec have uncovered a spam campaign offering the Green Coffee Bean Extract, a diet supplement, a few months later the experts discovered that the same operators behind campaign is continuing its activities […]

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Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

Hackers leak WhatsApp screenshots and intimate photos of WWE Diva Paige

6 Million Celebrities Instagram High-Profiles Data available for sale on DoxaGram

Hackers exploited an Instagram flaw access celebrity profile data

Selena Gomez Instagram hacked! Hackers post Bieber nude photos

Fappening 2017 – Private pictures of Miley Cyrus, Stella Maxwell, and others leaked

Crime doesn’t pay, Fappening hacker gets 18 months in jail

Man behind The Fappening case charged with hacking celebrity accounts

Email accounts belonging to 130 Celebrities have been Hacked

Symantec spotted a wide spam operation on Twitter

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