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Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2020
Student loan company that stole millions from consumers leaks sensitive phone calls, SSNs, tax records

Researchers at Cybernews.com recently discovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) containing a huge trove of data from a student loan company. Researchers at Cybernews.com recently discovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 55,000 call recordings between loan support workers and American consumers with outstanding student loans.  This open database also contains […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2020
There was no data breach in the cyberattack against Minneapolis Police

Last week a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack shut down the websites and systems of Minneapolis, but there is no evidence of a breach. Over the weekend, Anonymous demanded justice for George Floyd and threatened to ‘expose the many crimes’ of Minneapolis Police. George Floyd was killed by a white police officer by kneeling on his neck […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020
The team behind the Joomla CMS discloses a data breach

Maintainers at the Joomla open-source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach that took place last week. Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site (resources.joomla.org) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. The company did not […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020
KingNull leaks DB of Daniel’s Hosting dark web hosting provider

Earlier this year a hacker breached Daniel’s Hosting, the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services and now leaked its DB. A threat actor has leaked the database of Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services. The hacker has stolen the data in March when […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Santander, one of the biggest European banks, was leaking sensitive data on their website

Santander Consumer Bank, the Belgian branch of the bank, had a misconfiguration in its blog domain that was allowing its files to be indexed. Our new research recently discovered a security issue with Santander, the 5th largest bank in Europe and the 16th largest in the world. This Spanish multinational bank controls approximately $1.4 trillion in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2020
129 million records of Russian car owners available on the dark web

A hacker is offering for sale on a dark web forum a database containing 129 million records of car owners in Moscow. A hacker is attempting to sell on a dark web forum a database containing 129 million records of car owners in Moscow. As a proof of the authenticity of the data, the hacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2020
Microsoft investigates claims that its GitHub account has been hacked

Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were leaked online. Microsoft launched an investigation into the claims that its GitHub account has been hacked. Recently some files allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Github account have been leaked online, and they appear to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2020
CAM4 adult cam site leaked 11B database records including emails, private chats

The popular adult live streaming website CAM4 exposed over 7TB of personally identifiable information (PII) of members and users. The popular adult live streaming website CAM4 exposed over 10.88 billion database records containing a total of 7TB of personally identifiable information (PII) of its members and users. The data leak is the result of the accidental exposure […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2020
India’s Jio Coronavirus symptom checker exposed test results

A security glitch in the self-test coronavirus symptom checker developed by India’s Jio cell network exposed test results. While Coronavirus was spreading worldwide, India’s largest cell network Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance, has developed a coronavirus self-test symptom checker, days before the Indian government imposed a local lockdown to prevent the outbreak. The app was […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2020
French daily Le Figaro leaks 7.4 Billion records

French daily Le Figaro database accidentally exposed online, the archive included roughly 7.4 billion records containing personal information of employees and users. French daily newspaper Le Figaro exposed roughly 7.4 billion records containing personally identifiable information (PII) of employees, reporters, and at least 42,000 users. The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of […]