Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2016
The Qatar National Bank (QNB) is investigating a possible data leak after that a 1.5 GB archive containing 15,000 files was shared online. Another incident involved the banking industry, this time the Qatar National Bank (QNB) is investigating a major data leak. Several sources online, including Cryptome, have published a large number of files allegedly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2016
Security experts reported that hundreds of Spotify credentials appeared online and some users claim their accounts were hacked. Hundreds of Spotify account credentials appeared online on the website Pastebin, the information includes emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details. The popular Swedish streaming service denied any data breach and confirmed that its systems weren’t […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2016
Which is the source of Panama Papers? According to Mossack the hackers breached its systems, according to the experts its email server was breached. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was leaked online during the weekend, it is largest data leaks ever. The entire archive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2016
A database containing records of 50 Million Turkish Citizens appeared online in the weekend. Is it a new or a recycled archive? Details of almost 50 Million Turkish citizens have been leaked online, the bulk data was hosted on a server with the IP address 185.100.87.84. The archive was published during the weekend, the publishers claim they it belongs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2016
American Express is informing cardholders that their payment card data may have been exposed after a third-party service provider suffered a security breach. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, this time, American Express is warning Cardholders of a possible incident occurred to a third party service provider. The name of the affected service provider […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
Project Cumulus – A group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Dark Web and discover how far do phished credentials get. In April 2015, a group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Deep Web and discover how far does it get after a data breach. The experts discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2016
According to former Apple employees interviewed by the Business Insider, cyber criminals are offering Apple staffers in Ireland up to $23,000 for their login details. Insiders are one of the greatest security problems for any organizations, working from the inside they can operate under the radar for a log time stealing information and sabotaging processes and infrastructures. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2016
A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2016
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a US Police Organisation, has been hacked and 2,5GB data dump leaked online. A data dump related to a US police association has been leaked online, as well as a backup containing personal information belonging to the member of a forum. The data dump results from the data breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
The Las Vegas Casino firm Affinity Gaming sued Trustwave for allegedly failing a data breach investigation, but Trustwave denies any wrongdoing. Affinity Gaming, a casino operator operating five casinos in Nevada, and six in other locations in the US, has sued the It security company Trustwave for a “bad” investigation, after a network breach it […]
