Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2017
Disqus data breach – The blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities Disqus has confirmed a data breach that occurred back in 2012. On Friday evening, the worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities Disqus has confirmed a data breach that occurred back in 2012. In 2012, hackers have stolen details for at least 17.5 million Disqus user accounts. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2017
The Yahoo hack occurred in 2013 is bigger than originally stated, Verizon confirmed that all 3 Billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in the attack. The Yahoo hack occurred in 2013, the biggest known data breach suffered by a tech company, is bigger than originally stated. Verizon Communications, which acquired Yahoo for $4.48 billion in June, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2017
News of the day is that another big company suffered a security breach, the victim is the Amazon-owned grocery chain Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods Market has around 500 stores in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the company acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August, it now notified customers a credit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2017
The accountancy firm Deloitte announced it is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised its global email server. Today the accountancy firm giant Deloitte revealed that is has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. According to The Guardian that first reported the incident, hackers may have accessed company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2017
Login credentials for 540K records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. Another day, another data breach to report, login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking (aka Stolen Vehicle Records Tracking) have been leaked online. The incident […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2017
Experts at Kromtech Security Research Center discovered a new Verizon leak exposed confidential and sensitive data on internal systems. It has happened again, security researchers with Kromtech Security Research Center discovered a new Verizon leak exposed confidential and sensitive data on internal systems. Leaked data includes server logs and credentials for internal systems, the huge trove of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2017
The top U.S. markets regulator SEC announced a security breach, accessed data might have been used by crooks for insider trading. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that cyber criminals had previously breached its database of corporate announcements in 2016 and likely they have used it for insider trading. On Wednesday, the SEC Chairman […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2017
The notorious OurMine hacker crew has claimed responsibility for the breach of the popular video streaming service Vevo. Another clamorous data breach made the headlines again, this time the victim is the popular video streaming service Vevo that was hacked by the popular hacking group OurMine. Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2017
The major Swedish web hosting provider Loopia has been compromised and the entire customer database leaked. Loopia confirmed the data breach yesterday, the incident has happened on August 22 and the company notified customers on August 25. The company explained that the delay in the public disclosure was necessary to secure the systems and protect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2017
Russia-linked hackers Fancy Bears claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. A self-styled hacker group that calls itself Fancy Bears has set up the website fancybear.net to leak emails and medical records related to football players who used doping substances under a campaign dubbed OpOlympics. The group […]
