data breach

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2018
Dixons Carphone Data Breach discovered in June affected 10 Million customers

Dixons Carphone announced on Monday that the security breach discovered in June affected around 10 million customers, much more than the initial estimate. Dixons Carphone, one of the largest European consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers, suffered a major data breach in 2017, but new data related to the incident have been shared. The situation was worse […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018
SingHealth, largest healthcare group in Singapore, suffered a massive data breach

SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, suffered a massive data breach that exposed 1.5 Million patient records. The largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen records include […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
US Biggest Blood Testing Laboratories LabCorp suffered a security breach

Hackers have breached the network at LabCorp, one of the largest diagnostic blood testing laboratories in the US, millions of Americans potentially at risk. The biggest blood testing laboratories network in the US, LabCorp has suffered a security breach. The company announced the incident on Monday, the security breach occurred over the weekend. The hackers breached into […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2018
Timehop provides additional details on the recent security breach

Timehop has recently announced to have suffered a data breach that affected 21 million user accounts. The company now shares additional details about the incident. Timehop service aims to help people in finding new ways to connect with each other by analyzing past activities, earlier this month, the company revealed that one or more malicious hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2018
GoDaddy-owned hosting company Domainfactory hacked

The hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after hackers posted messages claiming to have breached into its infrastructure. While I was writing about the Timehope security breach, another incident is making the headlines, the victim is the German hosting company Domainfactory. The hosting company, that was owned by GoDaddy since 2016, has taken […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2018
Timehop data breach, data from 21 million users exposed

Timehop, the service that aims to help people in finding new ways to connect with each other by analyzing past activities, has been hacked. Timehop is a service that aims to help people in finding new ways to connect with each other by analyzing past activities. “Timehop created the digital nostalgia category and continues to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2018
Data Broker Exactis data breach, one of the biggest ever, exposes millions of Americans

Security expert Vinny Troia has found a huge trove of data belonging to millions of Americans that were left unsecured online.  The security researcher Vinny Troia was analyzing the level of security for Elasticsearch installs exposed online when discovered millions of records belonging to Americans that were left unsecured online. The expert used Shodan to find U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2018
The popular online survey software Typeform suffered a security breach

Typeform, the popular online survey platform, has suffered a data breach that exposed partial data of some users, no payment card data was stolen. Typeform, the popular online survey platform, is the last victim of a data breach. Typeform software is widely adopted by businesses worldwide to easily arrange surveys, it allows easy creation of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2018
Adidas warns US consumers of a potential security breach

The sportswear company Adidas announced that it has launched an investigation after learning of a potential security breach that could impact millions of its US customers. Adidas published a security alert to warn that hackers may have stolen customer data from its US website. The German sportswear company confirmed that attackers may have had unauthorized access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2018
Ticketmaster suffered a data breach and blamed a third-party provider over the incident

The entertainment ticketing service Ticketmaster announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed personal and payment customer information. Hackers accessed name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details of company customers. According to the company, attackers installed a malicious code on customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies, an external […]