data breach

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2024
Cylance confirms the legitimacy of data offered for sale in the dark web

A threat actor is selling the data belonging to BlackBerry’s Cylance cybersecurity unit, he demanded $750,000. A threat actor, that goes online with the moniker Sp1d3r, is selling the stolen data for $750,000. The data includes 34 million customer and employee emails, customer / prospect email and PII, products used by organizations, sales prospect list […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals

Auction house Christie’s revealed that the data breach caused by the recent ransomware attack impacted 45,000 individuals. At the end of May, the auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred in early May and the website of the auction house was unreachable after […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals

Frontier Communications is notifying over 750,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyber attack. Last week, the RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claimed to have stolen 5GB of data from the telecommunications […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 475 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2024
New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token

The source code and data of The New York Times leaked on the 4chan was stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024. This week, VX-Underground first noticed that the internal data of The New York Times was leaked on 4chan by an anonymous user. The mysterious user leaked 270GB of data and claimed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor

Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy previously paid a ransom demand to an extortion group that extorted the company again this week. The story of the attack against the Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy demonstrates that paying a ransom to an extortion group is risky to the victims. BleepingComputer first reported that Pandabuy had previously paid a ransom […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2024
RansomHub gang claims the hack of the telecommunications giant Frontier Communications

The RansomHub ransomware group added the American telecommunications company Frontier Comunications to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claims to have stolen 5GB of data from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 474 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers Critical Apache Log4j2 flaw still threatens global finance […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2024
Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed the Ticketmaster data breach that compromised the data of 560 million customers. ShinyHunters, the current administrator of BreachForums, recently claimed the hack of Ticketmaster and offered for sale 1.3 TB of data, including full details of 560 million customers, for $500,000. Stolen data includes names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2024
ShinyHunters is selling data of 30 million Santander customers

The threat actor ShinyHunters claims breach of Santander and is offering for sale bank data, including information for 30 million customers. A notorious threat actor ShinyHunters is offering a huge trove of data allegedly stolen from the Santander Bank for sale. ShinyHunters claims to have stolen information for 30 million customers, employees, and bank account […]