data breach

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2021
The U.K. Labour Party discloses a data breach

The U.K. Labour Party discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack hit a service provider that is managing its data. The U.K. Labour Party discloses a data breach after a service provider that manages its data was hit by a ransomware attack. The party notified relevant authorities and members that some of their information […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2021
Iranian Black Shadow hacking group breached Israeli Internet hosting firm

Irananian hacking group Black Shadow breached the Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, taking down several of its sites. Iranian hacking group Black Shadow compromised the server of the Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, taking down several of the sites hosted by the firm. The group also claims to have stolen data and threatens to leak […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2021
Graff multinational jeweller hit by Conti gang. Data of its rich clients are at risk, including Trump and Beckham

Conti ransomware gang hit high society jeweller Graff and threatens to release private details of world leaders, actors and tycoons The latest attack of the Conti ransomware gang makes the headlines, the threat actors hit high society jeweller Graff and asked the payment of a multi-million ransom to avoid leaking details of world leaders, actors […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2021
Threat actors offer for sale data for 50 millions of Moscow drivers

Threat actors are offering for sale a database containing 50 million records belonging to Moscow drivers on a hacking forum for $800. Bad news for Russian drivers, threat actors are selling a database containing 50 million records belonging to Moscow drivers on a hacking forum for only $800. The threat actors claim to have obtained […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2021
Twitch security breach had minimal impact, the company states

Twitch provided an update for the recent security breach, the company confirmed that it only had a limited impact on a small number of users. Twitch downplayed the recent security breach in an update, the company said it only impacted a small number of users. According to the update, login credentials or full payment card […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2021
Accenture discloses data breach after LockBit ransomware attack

IT and consulting giant Accenture confirmed a data breach after the ransomware attack conducted by LockBit operators in August 2021. Global IT consultancy giant Accenture discloses a data breach after the LockBit ransomware attack that hit the company in August 2021. News about the attack was included in the company’s financial report for the fourth quarter […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2021
Acer suffered the second security breach in a few months

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. The company revealed that its after-sales service systems in India were hit by an isolated attack. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 335

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Previously undetected FontOnLake Linux malware used in targeted attacks Google addresses four high-severity flaws in Chrome Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2021
Sky.com servers exposed via misconfiguration

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/news/sky-com-servers-exposed-via-misconfiguration/ CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain, containing what appear to be production-level database access credentials, as well as addresses to development endpoints. Sky, a subsidiary of Comcast, is Europe’s largest […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2021
Twitch data breach updates: login credentials or card numbers not exposed

An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous 4chan user has published a torrent link to a 128GB file on the 4chan discussion board, the leaked archive contains sensitive data stolen from 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories. […]