data breach

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web

A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2019
Coffee Meets Bagel dating app confirms data breach

The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2019
Home Design website Houzz suffered a data breach

The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. Houzz has over 40 million monthly unique users, at the time is not clear how many individuals are affected. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2019
Airbus data breach exposes some employees’data

The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach that exposed some employees’ data. The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers broke into the company “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems and gained access to some of its employees’ personal information. “Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2019
Dailymotion forces password reset in response to credential stuffing Attack

The popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were accessed by hackers as result of a massive credential stuffing attack. On Friday, the popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were hit by hackers. The company discovered unauthorized access attempts resulting from credential stuffing activity. The company blocked the attempts of intrusions […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2019
“Collection #1” Data Breach Analysis – Part 2

The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli continues its analysis of the data leak known as Collection #1, he shared some interesting views on dataThe cyber security expert Marco Ramilli continues its analysis of the data leak known as Collection #1, he shared some interesting views on data On January 19th we downloaded Collection #1 to make statistics […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2019
“Collection #1” Data Breach Analysis – Part 1

Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the huge trove of data, called Collection #1, that was first disclosed by Troy Hunt. Few weeks ago I wrote about “How Data Breaches Happen“, where I shared some public available “pasties” within apparently (not tested) SQLi vulnerable websites. One of the most famous data breaches in the past […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2019
Collection #1 dump, 773 million emails, 21 million passwords

The popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt has uncovered a massive data leak he called ‘Collection #1’ that included 773 million records. The name ‘Collection #1’ comes from the name of the root folder. Someone has collected a huge trove of data through credential stuffing, the ‘Collection #1’ archive is a set of email addresses […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2019
State attorneys general announced a $1.5 million settlement with Neiman Marcus

Tens of state attorneys general announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a 2013 data breach. Tens of attorneys general announced this week a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. 43 states and the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019
Town of Salem RP Game hacked, more than 7.6M Players affected

BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 million players of the browser-based role-playing game Town of Salem Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. The bad news for […]