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Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Corporate Finance firms leak 500K+ legal and financial documents online

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. “Whatever the intended purpose of this database was, over 500,000 highly sensitive and private […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2019
Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs

vpnMentor researchers discovered an unsecured server belonging to the Chinese e-store LightInTheBox.com containing 1.3TB of web server logs. Infosec researchers have uncovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing 1.3TB of web server log entries held by Chinese e-commerce website LightInTheBox.com. LightInTheBox is a Chinese online retailer trading on the New York Stock Exchange, most of its […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2019
NASA hacked! An unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network was the entry point

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. According to a report published by the NASA Office of Inspector General, hackers breached the Agency’s network in April 2018 and remained undetected for nearly a year. The report […]