data breach

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America hit by payment card data breach

Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Chili’s restaurant chain is the last victim of a Payment Card Breach

Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chili’s restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2018
iVideon Russian-based video surveillance solution leaked data, hundreds of thousands of records exposed

Security researchers from Kromtech Security discovered a MongoDB install belonging to the Russian-based video surveillance firm Did iVideon open online. The database included personal information for over 825,000 subscribers and partners. Leaked records include logins, email addresses, password hashes, server names, domain names, IP addresses, sub accounts, software settings, and payment settings information (we did not see any credit card […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2018
SunTrust unfaithful employee may have stolen data on 1.5 Million customers

SunTrust Banks Inc announced it discovered that a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share it a criminal organization. A former employee at the SunTrust Bank may have stolen data on 1.5 million clients,  including names, addresses, phone numbers, and account balances. “The company became aware of potential […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2018
Great Western Railway asks users to reset passwords due to a security breach

The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Sodexo Filmology data breach – Users need cancel their credit cards

Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology. Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2018
130,000 Finnish user data exposed in third largest data breach ever happened in the country

Personal information belonging to more than 130,000 Finnish citizens have been compromised in the third largest data breach ever happened in the country. The data breach affected a website maintained by the New Business Center in Helsinki (“Helsingin Uusyrityskeskus”), that is company that provides business advice to entrepreneurs. “Data batches have overwritten username and password for over 130,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018
Fin7 hackers stole 5 Million payment card data from Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor Stores

FIN7 hackers stole credit and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased goods at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. A new data breach made the headlines, the victim is Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. According to the parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), the security breach […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018
Under Armour data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal users

Under Armour became aware of a potential security breach on March 25, the company said an unauthorized party had accessed MyFitnessPal user data. Under Armour learned of the data breach on March 25,  it promptly reported the hack to law enforcement and hired security consultants to investigate the incident. Attackers hacked the MyFitnessPal application that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Expedia-owned travel website Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in data breach

Orbitz, the travel website owned by Expedia announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a security breach that affected hundreds of thousands of users. Orbitz.com has millions of users, it was acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $1.6 billion. Orbitz confirmed that attackers gained access to a legacy platform between October 1 and December 22, 2017, […]