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Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2022
Indian foreign ministry’s Global Pravasi Rishta portal leaks expat passport details

The Cybernews research team reported that India’s government platform Global Pravasi Rishta Portal was leaking sensitive user data. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/indias-foreign-ministry-leaks-passport-details/ The Global Pravasi Rishta Portal, India’s government platform for connecting with its overseas population, leaked sensitive data, including names and passport details. The Cybernews research team has been alerted that the Global Pravasi […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2022
Android app with over 5m downloads leaked user browsing history

The Android app Web Explorer – Fast Internet left an open instance, exposing a trove of sensitive data that malicious actors could use to check specific users’ browsing history. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/android-app-leaked-user-browsing-history/ A browsing app for Android devices, Web Explorer – Fast Internet, left open its Firebase instance, exposing app and user data, the Cybernews research […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2022
Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2022
BlueBleed: Microsoft confirmed data leak exposing customers’ info

Microsoft disclosed a data leak, sensitive data of some of its customers were exposed by a misconfigured Microsoft server accessible online. Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. The data leak was discovered by the security threat intelligence firm SOCRadar […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2022
Experts discovered millions of .git folders exposed to public

Nearly two million .git folders containing vital project information are exposed to the public, the Cybernews research team found. Original Post at https://cybernews.com/security/millions-git-folders-exposed/ Git is the most popular open-source, distributed version control system (VCS) developed nearly 20 years ago by Linus Torvalds for development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers contributing to its initial […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
DJI drone tracking data exposed in the US

Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in the leak of a database containing information from airspace monitoring devices manufactured by DJI. Original post at CyberNews: https://cybernews.com/privacy/dji-drone-tracking-data-exposed-in-us/ Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in a data leak after a database containing information from dozens of airspace monitoring devices manufactured by the Chinese-owned DJI was left accessible […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
A disgruntled developer is the alleged source of the leak of the Lockbit 3.0 builder

A disgruntled developer seems to be responsible for the leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang. The leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang made the headlines, it seems that the person who published it is a disgruntled developer. The latest version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2022
Cisco confirms that data leaked by the Yanluowang ransomware gang were stolen from its systems

Cisco confirmed the May attack and that the data leaked by the Yanluowang ransomware group was stolen from its systems. In August, Cisco disclosed a security breach, the Yanluowang ransomware gang breached its corporate network in late May and stole internal data. The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2022
TikTok denies data breach following leak of user data

Threat actors published a sample of data allegedly stolen from TikTok, but the company denies it was breached. The hacking collective AgainstTheWest recently published a post on Breach Forums message board claiming to have hacked TikTok and stolen source code and user data. The group published screenshots of an alleged stolen data, it claims to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2022
IRS mistakenly published confidential info for roughly 120K taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly leaked confidential information for approximately 120,000 taxpayers. Bad news for approximately 120,000 taxpayers who filed a form 990-T as part of their tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service has accidentally leaked their confidential information. Form 990-T is a form that a tax exempt organization files with the IRS to report its unrelated business income and to figure the tax owed on that income. On Friday, the IRS announced it has […]