data breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2018
Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers. Eir, the fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company of Ireland, has suffered a data breach this week. Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers have been exposed according to the telecommunications company. The root cause of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
T-Mobile data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers

T-Mobile today announced It has suffered a security breach that May have exposed personal information of up to 2 million T-mobile customers. According to the telco giant, the incident affected its US servers on August 20, leaked information includes customers’ name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type (prepaid or postpaid). T-Mobile notified the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Crooks claim to have stolen 20k customer records from Superdrug cosmetics retailer

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. Hackers accessed customers’ names, addresses and in some cases […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2018
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2018
Salesforce warns of API error that exposed Marketing data

The US Cloud-based customer relationship management software giant Salesforce is warning marketing customers of a data leakage caused by an API error. The US cloud computing company Salesforce is warning marketing customers of a data leakage caused by an API error. The incident could potentially affect a large number of companies, including Aldo, Dunkin Donuts, GE, HauteLook, Nestle Waters, and Sony. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2018
Reddit discloses a data breach, a hacker accessed user data

Reddit is warning its users of a security breach, an attacker broke into the systems of the platform and accessed user data. Reddit is warning its users of a security breach, a hacker broke into the systems of the platform and accessed user data. The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2018
Ten years ago someone breached into a server of the Yale University

Ten years ago someone breached into a server of the Yale University, but because the intrusion happened nearly ten years ago there is much more information about how it occurred. After ten years, Yale University revealed a security breach that exposed an archive containing personal information of 119,000 people. Hackers breached into the database of the famous […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2018
Dixons Carphone Data Breach discovered in June affected 10 Million customers

Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate. Dixons Carphone, one of the largest European consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers, suffered a major data breach in 2017, but new data related to the incident have been shared. The situation was worse […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018
SingHealth, largest healthcare group in Singapore, suffered a massive data breach

SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, suffered a massive data breach that exposed 1.5 Million patient records. The largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen records include […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
US Biggest Blood Testing Laboratories LabCorp suffered a security breach

Hackers have breached the network at LabCorp, one of the largest diagnostic blood testing laboratories in the US, millions of Americans potentially at risk. The biggest blood testing laboratories network in the US, LabCorp has suffered a security breach. The company announced the incident on Monday, the security breach occurred over the weekend. The hackers breached into […]