data breach

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2017
SEC announces it was hacked, information may have been used for insider trading

The top U.S. markets regulator SEC announced a security breach, accessed data might have been used by crooks for insider trading. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that cyber criminals had previously breached its database of corporate announcements in 2016 and likely they have used it for insider trading. On Wednesday, the SEC Chairman […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2017
OurMine hacked Vevo and leaked 3.12 TB internal files, then delete them

The notorious OurMine hacker crew has claimed responsibility for the breach of the popular video streaming service Vevo. Another clamorous data breach made the headlines again, this time the victim is the popular video streaming service Vevo that was hacked by the popular hacking group OurMine. Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2017
Swedish web hosting Loopia suffered severe data breach

The major Swedish web hosting provider Loopia has been compromised and the entire customer database leaked. Loopia confirmed the data breach yesterday, the incident has happened on August 22 and the company notified customers on August 25. The company explained that the delay in the public disclosure was necessary to secure the systems and protect […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2017
Fancy Bears release data on soccer players’ TUE drug use and doping cases

Russia-linked hackers Fancy Bears claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. A self-styled hacker group that calls itself Fancy Bears has set up the website fancybear.net to leak emails and medical records related to football players who used doping substances under a campaign dubbed OpOlympics. The group […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2017
Ourmine hacked PlayStation Social Media Accounts to announce the theft of PSN Database

Ourmine hacker crew hijacked the official Twitter and Facebook accounts for Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) on Sunday and claims to have stolen PSN database. The dreaded Ourmine hacker crew is back, after the recent hack of social media accounts of HBO and Game of Thrones, the team hijacked the official Twitter and Facebook accounts for Sony […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2017
Mr.Smith, HBO hackers threaten to leak final episode of Game of Thrones 7

The bad actors behind the HBO hack are back and are threatening to leak the final episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. The threat actor that has hacked into the HBO announced that it will leak the final episode of Game of Thrones season 7.The hacker who claimed the responsibility for the hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2017
Misconfigured AWS S3 exposed 1.8 million US voter records

More than 1.8 million voter records belonging to Americans have been accidentally leaked online by a US voting machine supplier for dozens of US states. It has happened again, more than 1.8 million voter records belonging to Americans have been accidentally leaked online by a US voting machine supplier for dozens of US states. The voter records were left […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2017
Variety reports a failed attempt of HBO to Offer a ‘Bug Bounty’ to hackers

According to a report from a leaked memo by Variety, in response to the incident, HBO offered a reward of $250,000, a figure far from the HBO annual budget. Cyber criminals claiming to have hacked television group HBO networks were demanding millions of dollars in ransom payments from the company while threatening to release more material. The alleged […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Cyber criminals demand HBO millions to stop leaking its material

Cyber gang demands HBO CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom to avoid 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being leaked online. Crooks claiming to have hacked television group HBO networks were demanding millions of dollars in ransom payments from the company while threatening to release more material. The alleged hackers published a five-minute video letter to HBO […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
FireEye Provides Update on the alleged data breach revealed late July

Late July, hackers posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to a Senior Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The company provides update. Late July, hackers have posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The leaked archive is a 337MB PST file containing the expert’s […]