Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2019
The 3Fun dating mobile app for “curious couples & singles” exposed the location of its members and their personal details. What do you think about the privacy of dating apps? Well, users of 3Fun, a mobile app for arranging threesomes had an ugly surprise, their data were leaked online. 3Fun claims to have over 1.5 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2019
The former NSA contractor who pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of data from the Agency, was sentenced to nine years in prison The former National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III, who was accused and subsequently pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of classified NSA data, was sentenced to nine years in prison. The man was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2019
Experts at Vertical Structure and WhiteHat Security discovered a serious flaw that exposed millions of files stored on thousands of exposed Lenovo NAS devices. An analysis conducted by researchers at Vertical Structure and WhiteHat Security allowed discovering a vulnerability in discontinued Iomega/Lenovo NAS devices, tracked as CVE-2019-6160, that exposed millions of files. The discovery was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2019
Hackers stole data of millions of Bulgarians, and sent it to local media, According to the media the source could be the National Revenue Agency. Hackers have exfiltrated data from a Bulgarian government system, likely the National Revenue Agency (NRA), and have shared it with the local media. The hackers have stolen the personal details […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Experts found a Chinese smart home solutions vendor that has been leaking billions of logs from devices managed via its cloud platform. Experts at vpnMentor discovered a massive data leak in Orvibo’s user database. The research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, has found an open database managed by Orvibo Smart Home vendor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2019
Attunity data integration and big data management firm exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets. Data integration and big data management firm Attunity exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets. The company, owned by Qlik, provides solutions to over 2,000 enterprises and half of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2019
Security expert discovered an exposed database belonging to Shanghai Jiao Tong University containing 8.4TB in email metadata. Cloudflare Director of Trust & Safety Justin Paine discovered an unprotected database owned by Shanghai Jiao Tong University that was exposed online. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University is considered one of the most prominent academic institution based in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2019
vpnMentor researches have recently discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group have suffered a data leak. vpnMentor experts have discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group, including Marriott, have suffered a data leak, vpnMentor’s research team discovered the unprotected server through port scanning to examine known IP blocks. Researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2019
The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. The company has more than 18,000 employees and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018. Roughly 885 million insurance-related documents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]
