data leak

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2017
Misconfigured AWS S3 exposed 1.8 million US voter records

More than 1.8 million voter records belonging to Americans have been accidentally leaked online by a US voting machine supplier for dozens of US states. It has happened again, more than 1.8 million voter records belonging to Americans have been accidentally leaked online by a US voting machine supplier for dozens of US states. The voter records were left […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
FireEye Provides Update on the alleged data breach revealed late July

Late July, hackers posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to a Senior Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The company provides update. Late July, hackers have posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The leaked archive is a 337MB PST file containing the expert’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2017
Hackers leaked data from alleged Mandiant FireEye ‘breach’ under #OpLeakTheAnalyst.

Late Sunday evening, hackers leaked details alleged stolen from a compromised system maintained by Adi Peretz, a Senior Analyst at Mandiant. Late Sunday evening, hackers have posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The leaked archive is a 337MB PST file containing the expert’s emails. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2017
More than 14 Million Verizon Customers’ records exposed by a third party firm

Data belonging to 14 million U.S.-based Verizon customers have been exposed on an unprotected AWS Server by a partner of the telecommunications company. The notorious security expert Chris Vickery, UpGuard director of cyber risk research. as made another disconcerting discovery, more than 14 million US customers’ personal details have been exposed after the third-party vendor NICE left the sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2017
Why AA didn’t inform customers after a massive data leak

A backup containing sensitive information on more than 100,000 AA customers was exposed online, but the company didn’t disclose the incident. UK car insurance company AA is being heavily criticized over its handling of a data breach that exposed customer email addresses and partial credit card number in April. A server misconfiguration is the root cause […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2017
UK Parliament shut down external access to email accounts after cyberattack

The UK Parliament has suffered the biggest ever cyber attack against the email systems, it shut down external access to mitigate the threat. The UK Parliament has shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday after a cyberattack. According to the authorities, the attack was “sustained and determined,” hackers launched a prolonged brute-force attack against […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2017
32TB of Windows 10 internal builds and portions of core source code leaked online

A massive dump of Microsoft’s confidential Windows 10 internal builds, and the source codes for private software has been leaked online. A huge trove of Microsoft internal Windows operating system builds and portions of core source code have leaked online. The news was first reported by The Register, the 32TB of official and non-public installation images […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2017
UK politicians’ login credentials up for sale in the dark web

Russians hackers are offering for sale on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats. According to The Times, Russians hackers are selling on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats. Journalists at the British newspaper have found two huge […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2017
DRA firm left 1.1 TB of data unsecured on an Amazon S3, 198 million US voter records exposed

The popular security expert Chris Vickery revealed the DRA firm left 1.1 TB of data unsecured on an Amazon S3, 198 million US voter records exposed. Researcher Chris Vickery has found nearly 200 million voter records in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket maintained by Deep Root Analytics (DRA), it is the largest exposure of its kind […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2017
FBI arrests NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking top-secret report

The FBI agents arrested the NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner for leaking the top-secret report, here’s how she was identified. Yesterday the online news outlet The Intercept published a top-secret NSA report that shows Russian state-sponsored hackers tried repeatedly to hack the US voting systems before last 2016 Presidential election. A few hours later, it is […]