database Archives - Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2017

R6DB hacked. Rainbow Six Siege service’s database wiped and held for ransom

R6DB online gaming service that provides statistics for Rainbow Six Siege gamers, was hit by hackers who wiped its database and held the data for ransom. The gaming industry is a privileged target for hackers, in the past several groups targeted the major company in the industry for profit and fun. This time hackers targeted […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2017

Talos Team discovered serious issues in Aerospike Database Server

Security experts from Cisco Talos discovered several flaws in the Aerospike Database Server, a high-performance, and open source NoSQL database. Security experts from Cisco Talos have discovered several vulnerabilities in the Aerospike Database Server, a high-performance, and open source NoSQL database. It is used by several major brands for high-performance applications, including Kayak, AppNexus, Adform, adMarketplace and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016

Hacker is offering for sale a complete US Voters archive

Colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ offering US voters’ registration records on a black marketplace. On the Dark Web is quite easy to find any kind of data, recent data breaches have literally flooded the principal black markets. Recently, colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2015

Database with 191 Million US voters’ personal data exposed online

The security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a misconfigured archive exposes the personal details of 191 million U.S. voters. A misconfigured database is the root cause of the exposure of around 191 Million voter records. The records include voters’ full names, unique voter IDs, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers. The database […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2015

Over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on Internet

The popular expert and Shodan creator John Matherly found over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on the Internet by vulnerable databases. Last week my old hosting provider GoDaddy created me a lot of problems so I had no opportunity to write about this interesting story, now I passed to a better provider and I […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2015

GCHQ Gaffer database goes open source

The British intelligence agency GCHQ has released the Gaffer database as an open source project. Gaffer is sort of database written in Java that makes it “easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes and edges have statistics such as counts, histograms and sketches.”, its code is available for download on the code-sharing website Github. “Gaffer is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2015

Discovered 40000 vulnerable MongoDB databases on the Internet

Three German students have discovered that tens of thousands of MongoDB databases running as a service or website backend were exposed on the Internet. MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database which uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (BSON) improving the integration of data between different applications. MongoDB is very popular for scalability, performance and high availability, it represents […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2014

Brian Krebs Hacked … the big hoax

A man has published on PasteBin a fake dump of the database of the popular website KrebOnSecurity managed by the expert Brian Krebs. A few hours ago I received a tweet from the account Narcochaos (@N4rCochaos ) , which informed me and other illustrious colleagues that he has hacked the website of the popular security investigator Brian Krebs (http://krebsonsecurity.com/). […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2014

Yahoo Contributors Network affected by Blind & Time Based SQL Injection flaws

Yahoo! Contributors Network was affected by a serious Time based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability which allows the theft of sensitive data. The Yahoo! Contributors Network allows writers to submit articles, videos, it also allows contributors to receive assignments from Yahoo related various domains like Sports and Finance. The security researcher Behrouz Sadeghipour reported to that The Yahoo! Contributors Network (contributor.yahoo.com) is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2014

openSUSE Forum hacked. Pakistani hacker compromised internal database

A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE accessing to the database. A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE. The new shocking hack is shaking the IT security community, a few days after the […]

database

R6DB hacked. Rainbow Six Siege service’s database wiped and held for ransom

Talos Team discovered serious issues in Aerospike Database Server

Hacker is offering for sale a complete US Voters archive

Database with 191 Million US voters’ personal data exposed online

Over 650 terabytes of MongoDB data exposed on Internet

GCHQ Gaffer database goes open source

Discovered 40000 vulnerable MongoDB databases on the Internet

Brian Krebs Hacked … the big hoax

Yahoo Contributors Network affected by Blind & Time Based SQL Injection flaws

openSUSE Forum hacked. Pakistani hacker compromised internal database

newsletter

Subscribe to my email list and stay
up-to-date!

recent articles

Cisco removed the backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager

U.S. Sanctions Russia's Aeza Group for aiding crooks with bulletproof hosting

Qantas confirms customer data breach amid Scattered Spider attacks

CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025

U.S. CISA adds TeleMessage TM SGNL flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

QUICK LINKS

database

newsletter

Subscribe to my email list and stay up-to-date!

recent articles

Subscribe to my email list and stay
up-to-date!