data breach

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
UniCredit bank discloses a data breach that impacted 3 million of Italian clients

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015,  The UniCredit cybersecurity team has determined […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2019
Data from Sephora and StreetEasy data breaches added to HIBP

The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the popular service that allows users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2019
Zendesk 2016 security breach may impact Uber, Slack, and other organizations

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. Zendesk software is currently used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2019
Hacker claims to have stolen over 218M Zynga ‘Words with Friends’ Gamers records

Hackers have stolen more than 218 million records from the popular ‘Words With Friends’ developed by the mobile social game company Zynga Inc. Do you remember Gnosticplayers? The popular hacker Gnosticplayers that between February and April disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in five rounds.  He offered for sale almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2019
DoorDash Data Breach exposes data of approximately 5 million users

DoorDash is a San Francisco–based on-demand food delivery service, the company confirmed it has suffered a data breach that exposed roughly 5 million users. DoorDash announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants. According to the data breach notification sent to the impacted customers and the security note published […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2019
Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The online education platform for developers Thinkful has suffered a data breach, just a few days after it has announced it would be acquired by the education tech firm Chegg for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2019
Hackers stole payment data from Garmin South Africa shopping portal

Garmin, the multinational company focused on GPS technology for automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor, and sport activities is victim of a data breach. Garmin is the victim of a data breach, it is warning customers in South Africa that shopped on the shop.garmin.co.za portal that their personal info and payment data were exposed. The stolen data, included […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2019
XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. XKCD has suffered a data […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2019
One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2019
Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data

Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way.  Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project.  Option Way service allows its users to find flight deals to and from destinations around the world.  The research […]