data leak

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2021
Database, source code allegedly related to bulletproof hosting, once Parler’s service provider, up for sale on hacker forum

Group-IB discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company specializing in investigating and preventing hi-tech cybercrimes, has discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2021
Indonesia ‘s government confirms social security data breach for some citizens

Indonesia has launched an investigation into a possible security incident that caused the leak of social security data for more than 270 million citizens. Indonesia’s Communication and Information Ministry has confirmed a leak of social security data, it attempted to downplay the incident explaining that it only impacted a small portion of the population. The authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2021
19 petabytes of data exposed across 29,000+ unprotected databases

CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2021
Experian API exposed credit scores of tens of millions of Americans

Experian API exposed credit scores of tens of millions of Americans due to a weakness with a partner website. Anyone was able to look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by providing their name and mailing address. The issue was reported to KrebsOnSecurity by the independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2021
LinkedIn confirmed that it was not a victim of a data breach

LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2021
Personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users leaked online

An SQL database containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online for free, a few days after LinkedIn and Facebook suffered similar leaks. Researchers from Cyber News have discovered that the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users was leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data leaks. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2021
2,5M+ users can check whether their data were exposed in Facebook data leak

You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2021
30 million Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach Astoria Company LLC is a lead generation company that leverages on a network of websites to collect information on a person that may be looking for discounted car loans, different medical insurance, or even […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2021
Billions of FBS Records Exposed in Online Trading Broker Data Leak

Ata Hakcil led the team of white hat hackers from WizCase in identifying a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’ websites. The data from FBS.com and FBS.eu comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Were such detailed personally identifiable information (PII) to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2021
A day before elections, hackers leaked details of millions of Israeli voters

Hackers have exposed personal and voter registration details of over 6.5 million Israeli voters, less than 24 hours before the election. A few hours before the election in Israel, hackers exposed the voter registration and personal details of millions of citizens. The source of the data seems to be the app Elector developed by the […]