Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2017
Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents stored in an unsecured MongoDB instance has been deleted and held for ransom. Voter registration data for more than 19 million California residents that was stored in an unsecured MongoDB database has been deleted and held for ransom by attackers. The incident was discovered by researchers at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2017
The cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash confirmed it has fallen victim to a hacking attack that may have resulted in the loss of $60m worth of Bitcoin Cryptocurrency companies continue to be a privileged target of hackers, the last victim in order of time is the cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash. The NiceHash marketplace allows users to buy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2017
Another day, another clamorous data breach, this time let’s discuss a data breach that exposes personal data collected by the Keyboard App AI.type. This story reminds us that every time we download an app we are enlarging our surface of attack, in the majority of cases we are not aware of exact amount of data they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2017
LeakBase, an online service that provided paid access to leaked credentials, was shut down over the weekend, what has happened? LeakBase, an online service that provided paid access to leaked credentials, was shut down over the weekend and started redirecting to the data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned. We understand many of you may have lost some […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2017
PayPal confirmed that one of the companies it owns, TIO Networks, suffered a security breach, that affected 1.6 million customers. PayPal confirmed that one of the companies it owns, TIO Networks, suffered a security breach, hackers have accessed servers that stored information for 1.6 million customers. The company TIO Networks was recently acquired by PayPal for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
Clarkson, one of the world’s largest providers of shipping services publicly disclosed a security breach. Clarkson confirmed the hackers may release some of the stolen data, it hasn’t provided further details due to the ongoing law enforcement investigation. The information disclosed by the company suggests cyber criminals blackmailed the company requesting the payment of a ransom in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
The experts from the security firm UpGuard have discovered another S3 bucket containing documents from INSCOM, that is a joint US Army and NSA agency. A couple of weeks ago sensitive data from the US Army’s CENTCOM and PACOM divisions was exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, experts from the security firm UpGuard found terabytes of US military social media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Mozilla developer revealed the Firefox browser will soon include a new feature to notify users who visit sites that suffered a data breach Firefox browser is going to introduce a new security feature to make the users’ experience online more secure, it will warn users if they visit websites that have experienced data breaches. The news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2017
Unbelievable: Uber concealed data breach that exposed 57 Million records in 2016 and paid hackers to delete stolen records. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced on Tuesday that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data of 57 million of its users, the bad news is that the company covered up the hack […]
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