Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2018
Retailer Dixons Carphone has disclosed a security breach that involved 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records. Dixons Carphone discovered an “unauthorised access” to certain data held by the company, it promptly launched an investigation and hired an external firm to shed the light on the case. The company immediately reported the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2018
HR Software Firm PageUp is the last victim of a data breach, the company has 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. Another day another data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the HR Software Firm PageUp. PageUp is an Australian company with 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2018
A security researcher discovered email addresses and hashed passwords of roughly 92.3 million Myheritage users stored on a private server outside the company. The huge trove of data was contained in a file named “,” according to the experts the information is authentic and comes from Myheritage. “Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2018
The website of the events ticketing company Ticketfly was shut down after a hacker who calls himself “IsHaKdZ” compromised it. The hacker defaced the Ticketfly website with a picture of Guy Fawkes and a warning that read “Your Security Down im Not Sorry.” The attacker also published a yandex.com email account along with the following message: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2018
Coca-Cola discovered a security breach in September when law enforcement officials notified it that a former employee at a Coca-Cola subsidiary was found in possession of an external hard drive containing worker data. Coca-Cola announced a data breach after a former employee was found in possession of worker data on a personal hard drive. In compliance with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chili’s restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2018
Security researchers from Kromtech Security discovered a MongoDB install belonging to the Russian-based video surveillance firm Did iVideon open online. The database included personal information for over 825,000 subscribers and partners. Leaked records include logins, email addresses, password hashes, server names, domain names, IP addresses, sub accounts, software settings, and payment settings information (we did not see any credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2018
SunTrust Banks Inc announced it discovered that a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share it a criminal organization. A former employee at the SunTrust Bank may have stolen data on 1.5 million clients, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and account balances. “The company became aware of potential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]
