Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2019
Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Data were left unsecured online on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, exposed data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2019
A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site An expert discovered a flaw in the LastPass password manager that exposes login credentials entered on a site previously visited by a user. Tavis Ormandy, the popular white-hat hacker at Google Project Zero, has discovered a vulnerability in the LastPass password manager that exposes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2019
Researcher discovered an unsecured database exposed online, belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads, containing 198 million records. The researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database exposed online that belong to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads. The archive containing 198 million records for a total of 413GB of data containing information of potential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2019
Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way. Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project. Option Way service allows its users to find flight deals to and from destinations around the world. The research […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2019
A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. The Russian researcher Leonid Evdokimov has found that hardware wiretapping equipment used by the Kremlin as part of the SORM surveillance system (Russian: Система оперативно-разыскных мероприятий, lit. ‘System for Operative Investigative Activities’) had been leaking data online. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2019
Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation notified the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. The data leaked online includes customers’ names, payment card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, gender, and dates of birth. “The Belgian Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2019
A security expert discovered that the popular movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards. The security expert Mossab Hussein from cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk, discovered that MoviePass exposed a database containing the credit card data on one of its subdomains. The archive was containing 161 million records and the amount […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2019
A study conducted by researchers at Cyjax revealed that organizations expose sensitive data via sandboxes used for malware analysis. Experts at the threat intelligence firm Cyjax analyzed file uploaded by organizations via malware analysis sandboxes and discovered that they were exposing sensitive data. The researchers analyzed PDF documents and email files (.msg and .eml) uploaded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2019
Security experts have discovered that hackers have stolen 700,000 records from Choice Hotels franchise and are demanding payment for their return. Experts at Comparitech with the help of the popular researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unsecured database containing 700,000 records from the hotel franchise Chain Hotel. The experts discovered the unsecured MongoDB archive containing 5.6 million records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2019
Researchers discovered an unsecured database online owned by Suprema that contained the fingerprints and facial recognition information of one million people. Researchers from vpnMentor discovered the personal and biometric data (i.e. facial recognition and fingerprint information) of more than a million people exposed online on an unsecured database owned by the Suprema biometric security company. […]
