Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2016
The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought, payment card data exposed in more than 1000 stores. The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought and exposed sensitive information, including credit card data. Roughly one on three Wendy’s burger was hacked, a malware has infected PoS systems. Just after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
On Monday the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed for the second time a data breach that compromised customers’ payment card data. It has happened again, earlier this week the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed a data breach, it is the second time the casino suffered a cyber attack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2016
The Taiwanese electronics company Acer informed its customers that some of their sensitive financial data may have been accessed by hackers. The Taiwanese IT giant Acer recently confirmed to California’s Attorney General (AG) that unknown hackers compromised its online store and accessed customers’ sensitive data. The leaked data includes credit card numbers, expiry dates, CVC security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
On Tuesday evening Github became aware of unauthorized attempts to access a large number of its accounts, in response the company has reset their passwords. GitHub announced it has reset the passwords of a number of accounts after the company noticed unauthorized access. The hackers used credentials leaked online after the numerous data breaches suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2016
In February Verticalscope platform was hacked and more than 45 Million passwords from 1,000 websites running on it have been leaked online. Data breaches, a never ending saga! Recently we reported a number of clamorous data breaches, hundred thousand million credentials were offered for sale in dark web. LinkedIn, mySpace, VKontakte, and Twitter are some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2016
Twitter investigated account login credentials recently offered for sale on the dark web, locked the accounts and reset their passwords. This week a Russian hacker offered for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials on the Dark Web. The alleged Russian hacker offered Twitter account credentials for 10 Bitcoins (over $5,800). In response to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2016
A hacker is offering for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials with plans to sell the account details on the Dark Web. Recent news of massive data breaches suffered by IT giants LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com shocked the security industry. Millions of login credentials are available for sale in the principal black markets, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
The μTorrent team announced its community μTorrent forum has been hacked. Hundreds of thousand records belonging its users have been exposed. Are you a Torrent user? Are you one of the users of the popular μTorrent Forum? You might be in trouble because the μTorrent Forum was hacked. μTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale on the Dark Web. Another day another data breach, this time 100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale. Some experts estimate that the number of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2016
The notorious crime forum Sh0ping[.]su has been hacked by unknowns that leaked online credit card data and stolen accounts. Data breaches are a common problem also for bad actors, in many cases cyber criminals hack websites of competitors to damage their reputation and push out them from the business. Recently we discussed the hacks of […]
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