Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]
Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Exposed data includes full names, birth dates, national ID numbers, medical insurance numbers, and other personal data. […]
Canadian Freedom Mobile mobile network operator exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unprotected database containing information belonging to Freedom Mobile customers. Freedom Mobile is the fourth largest mobile network operator in Canada. The unprotected database stored at least 5 million records associated with 1.5 million […]
vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million US households, and the incident is still actively leaking data. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living in each household […]
Security researcher discovered a database belonging to a ride-hailing company operating in Iran that was left exposed online containing over 6.7M records. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to a ride-hailing company operating in Iran that was left exposed online without protection. The MongoDB instance named ‘doroshke-invoice-production‘ contained over 6.7 million records of […]
Researcher discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. Researcher Sanyam Jain at GDI foundation discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. Most of the data are publicly available, the databases also include the email addresses of the […]
Lab Dookhtegan hackers leaked details about operations carried out by Iran-linked OilRig group, including source code of 6 tools. A hacker group that goes online with the name Lab Dookhtegan have disclosed details about operations conducted by the Iran-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as OilRig, APT34, and HelixKitten. OilRig is an Iran-linked APT group that has been […]
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents Media outlet Techcrunch reported that a hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and leaked the stolen info online. A hacker group claims to have hacked dozens of websites affiliated with the FBI and leaked online dozens of files containing the personal […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) has disclosed a data leak that exposed banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million survivors. In case of national disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) offers a program called Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) that provides shelter to survivors. News of the day is that FEMA has […]
Security expert discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million job profiles in China. Security expert Sanyam Jain at GDI Foundation has discovered an unprotected database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million profiles for people in China who provided their resume to job recruitment sites. The expert discovered […]