data leak

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2021
US supermarket chain Wegmans discloses data breach

The supermarket chain Wegmans US Wegmans discloses a data breach, customers information was exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration issue. Wegmans Food Markets disclosed a data breach, the supermarket chain notified customers that some of their information was exposed as a result of the accidental availability online of two of its databases due […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2021
Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Researchers discovered an unprotected database belonging to CVS Health that was exposed online containing over a billion records. This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication. “On […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2021
Former NSA contractor Reality Winner who leaked gov report will be released on November

Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor who leaked classified documents to the press in 2017, has been released from prison to home confinement. Reality Winner is a former NSA intelligence contractor who leaked a classified hacking report to the press in 2017. The FBI arrested Reality Leigh Winner on 3rd June for leaking classified information to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2021
Instagram flaw allowed to see private, archived Posts/Stories of users without following them

Instagram has addressed a new flaw that allowed anyone to access private accounts viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them. Researcher Mayur Fartade has found a vulnerability in Instagram that allowed anyone to access private accounts, viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them. The expert reported the flaw to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries

RockYou2021, the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum, it contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords.  Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked/ What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. A forum user posted a massive 100GB TXT file […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2021
Database, source code allegedly related to bulletproof hosting, once Parler’s service provider, up for sale on hacker forum

Group-IB discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company specializing in investigating and preventing hi-tech cybercrimes, has discovered a database allegedly belonging to a bulletproof hosting provider DDoS-Guard posted for sale on a cybercrime forum on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2021
Indonesia ‘s government confirms social security data breach for some citizens

Indonesia has launched an investigation into a possible security incident that caused the leak of social security data for more than 270 million citizens. Indonesia’s Communication and Information Ministry has confirmed a leak of social security data, it attempted to downplay the incident explaining that it only impacted a small portion of the population. The authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2021
19 petabytes of data exposed across 29,000+ unprotected databases

CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2021
Experian API exposed credit scores of tens of millions of Americans

Experian API exposed credit scores of tens of millions of Americans due to a weakness with a partner website. Anyone was able to look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by providing their name and mailing address. The issue was reported to KrebsOnSecurity by the independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2021
LinkedIn confirmed that it was not a victim of a data breach

LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A […]