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Critical Cosmos Database Flaw Affected Thousands of Microsoft Azure Customers | https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/critical-cosmos-database-flaw-affected.html | Cloud infrastructure security company Wiz on Thursday revealed details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability that could have been potentially exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access to other customers' database instances without any authorization.
The flaw, which grants read, write, and delete ... | Data_Breaches |
Researchers Detail Modus Operandi of ShinyHunters Cyber Crime Group | https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/researchers-detail-modus-operandi-of.html | ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that's been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies' GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities that can be abused to stage larger scale attacks, an analysis of the hackers' modus operandi has revealed.
"Primarily ope... | Data_Breaches |
Chinese Hackers Believed to be Behind Second Cyberattack on Air India | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/chinese-hackers-believed-to-be-behind.html | Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India's flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault that lasted for a period of at least two months and 26 days, new research has revealed, which attributed the incident with moderate confidence to a Chinese n... | Data_Breaches |
Using Breached Password Detection Services to Prevent Cyberattack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/using-breached-password-detection.html | Bolstering password policies in your organization is an important part of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Cybercriminals are using compromised accounts as one of their favorite tactics to infiltrate business-critical environments; as we've seen in recent news, these attacks can be dangerous and financially impactful.
... | Data_Breaches |
Can Data Protection Systems Prevent Data At Rest Leakage? | https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/can-data-protection-systems-prevent.html | Protection against insider risks works when the process involves controlling the data transfer channels or examining data sources.
One approach involves preventing USB flash drives from being copied or sending them over email. The second one concerns preventing leakage or fraud in which an insider accesses files or dat... | Data_Breaches |
Passwordstate Warns of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Following Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/passwordstate-warns-of-ongoing-phishing.html | Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor.
"We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing attack with a small number of customers... | Data_Breaches |
3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records with Government Emails | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/32-billion-leaked-passwords-contain-15.html | A staggering number of 3.28 billion passwords linked to 2.18 billion unique email addresses were exposed in what's one of the largest data dumps of breached usernames and passwords.
In addition, the leak includes 1,502,909 passwords associated with email addresses from government domains across the world, with the U.S.... | Data_Breaches |
Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users' Data | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/indian-brokerage-firm-upstox-suffers.html | Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information of approximately 2.5 million users on the dark web.
The leaked information includes names, email addresses, dates of birth, bank accou... | Data_Breaches |
PHP Site's User Database Was Hacked In Recent Source Code Backdoor Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/php-sites-user-database-was-hacked-in.html | The maintainers of the PHP programming language have issued an update regarding the security incident that came to light late last month, stating that the actors may have gotten hold of a user database containing their passwords to make unauthorized changes to the repository.
"We no longer believe the git.php.net serve... | Data_Breaches |
533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online | https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/533-million-facebook-users-phone.html | In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability.
The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobil... | Data_Breaches |
New Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Lets Other Users Access Restricted Apps | https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/new-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-lets-other.html | A newly discovered glitch in Zoom's screen sharing feature can accidentally leak sensitive information to other attendees in a call, according to the latest findings.
Tracked as CVE-2021-28133, the unpatched security vulnerability makes it possible to reveal contents of applications that are not shared, but only briefl... | Data_Breaches |
Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State | https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/data-breach-exposes-16-million-jobless.html | The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020.
The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion's File... | Data_Breaches |
Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/police-arrest-21-weleakinfo-customers.html | 21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.]com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites.
The suspects used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber and fraud offences, t... | Data_Breaches |
Microsoft Says Its Systems Were Also Breached in Massive SolarWinds Hack | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/microsoft-says-its-systems-were-also.html | The massive state-sponsored espionage campaign that compromised software maker SolarWinds also targeted Microsoft, as the unfolding investigation into the hacking spree reveals the incident may have been far more wider in scope, sophistication, and impact than previously thought.
News of Microsoft's compromise was firs... | Data_Breaches |
US Agencies and FireEye Were Hacked Using SolarWinds Software Backdoor | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/us-agencies-and-fireeye-were-hacked.html | State-sponsored actors allegedly working for Russia have targeted the US Treasury, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and other government agencies to monitor internal email traffic as part of a widespread cyberespionage campaign.
The Washington Post, citing unn... | Data_Breaches |
Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/cybersecurity-firm-fireeye-got-hacked.html | FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers.
The company said it's actively investigating t... | Data_Breaches |
Beware: New Android Spyware Found Posing as Telegram and Threema Apps | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/android-mobile-hacking.html | A hacking group known for its attacks in the Middle East, at least since 2017, has recently been found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new, previously undocumented malware.
"Compared to the versions documented in 2017, Android/SpyC23.A has extended s... | Data_Breaches |
Russian Who Hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison | https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/russian-linkedin-hacker.html | A Russian hacker who was found guilty of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring over eight years ago has finally been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that's more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week.
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 32, of Moscow hacked into servers belongin... | Data_Breaches |
Experian South Africa Suffers Data Breach Affecting Millions; Attacker Identified | https://thehackernews.com/2020/08/experian-data-breach-attack.html | The South African arm of one of the world's largest credit check companies Experian yesterday announced a data breach incident that exposed personal information of millions of its customers.
While Experian itself didn't mention the number of affect customers, in a report, the South African Banking Risk Information Cen... | Data_Breaches |
OkCupid Dating App Flaws Could've Let Hackers Read Your Private Messages | https://thehackernews.com/2020/07/hacking-okcupid-account.html | Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed several security issues in popular online dating platform OkCupid that could potentially let attackers remotely spy on users' private information or perform malicious actions on behalf of the targeted accounts.
According to a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers fro... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Using Google Analytics to Bypass Web Security and Steal Credit Cards | https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/google-analytics-hacking.html | Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google's Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites.
According to several independent reports from PerimeterX, Kaspersky, and Sansec, threat actors are now injecting data-stealing code on the compromised w... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Leaked 269 GB of U.S. Police and Fusion Centers Data Online | https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/law-enforcement-data-breach.html | A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates has published a massive 269 GB of data allegedly stolen from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Dubbed BlueLeaks, the exposed data leaked by the DDoSecrets group contains hundreds of thousands ... | Data_Breaches |
Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could've Been Accessed Without Password | https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/aadhar-digilocker-hacked.html | The Indian Government said it has addressed a critical vulnerability in its secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially let a remote attacker bypass mobile one-time passwords (OTP) and sign in as other users.
Discovered separately by two independent bug bounty researchers, Mohesh Mohan and As... | Data_Breaches |
Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) Portal Suffers Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/joomla-data-breach.html | Joomla, one of the most popular Open-source content management systems (CMS), last week announced a new data breach impacting 2,700 users who have an account with its resources directory (JRD) website, i.e., resources.joomla.org.
The breach exposed affected users' personal information, such as full names, business add... | Data_Breaches |
Brazil's Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users | https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/natura-data-breach.html | Brazil's biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers' personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been accessed by anyone without authentication.
SafetyDetective researcher Anurag Sen last month discovered two unprotected Amazon-host... | Data_Breaches |
British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data | https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/easyjet-data-breach-hacking.html | British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers.
In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9 million affected user... | Data_Breaches |
DigitalOcean Data Leak Incident Exposed Some of Its Customers Data | https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/digitalocean-data-breach.html | DigitalOcean, one of the biggest modern web hosting platforms, recently hit with a concerning data leak incident that exposed some of its customers' data to unknown and unauthorized third parties.
Though the hosting company has not yet publicly released a statement, it did has started warning affected customers of the... | Data_Breaches |
Researcher Discloses 4 Zero-Day Bugs in IBM's Enterprise Security Software | https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/ibm-data-risk-manager-vulnerabilities.html | A cybersecurity researcher today publicly disclosed technical details and PoC for 4 unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities affecting an enterprise security software offered by IBM after the company refused to acknowledge the responsibly submitted disclosure.
The affected premium product in question is IBM Data Risk Manage... | Data_Breaches |
Marriott Suffers Second Breach Exposing Data of 5.2 Million Hotel Guests | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/marriott-data-breach.html | International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years.
"At the end of February 2020, we identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed using the login creden... | Data_Breaches |
How CISOs Should Prepare for Coronavirus Related Cybersecurity Threats | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/coronavirus-cybersecurity-ciso.html | The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world's economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations.
Cybersecurity firm Cynet today revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by threat actors.
In light o... | Data_Breaches |
TrueFire Guitar Tutoring Website Suffers Magecart-style Credit Card Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/truefire-guitar-tutoring-data-breach.html | Online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has apparently suffered a 'Magecart' style data breach incident that may have potentially led to the exposure of its customers' personal information and payment card information.
TrueFire is one of the popular guitar tutoring websites with over 1 million users, where wanna-be-gu... | Data_Breaches |
Virgin Media Data Leak Exposes Details of 900,000 Customers | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/virgin-media-data-breach.html | On the same day yesterday, when the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile admitted a data breach, the UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media announced that it has also suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,000 customers.
What happened?
Unlike the T-Mobile data breach that ... | Data_Breaches |
A Massive U.S. Property and Demographic Database Exposes 200 Million Records | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/us-property-records-database.html | More than 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related information on US residents were left exposed on a database that was accessible on the web without requiring any password or authentication.
The exposed data — a mix of personal and demographic details — included the name, address, email address... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee' Email Accounts and Steal User' Data | https://thehackernews.com/2020/03/hackers-compromise-t-mobile-employees.html | If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you.
US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers.
What happened? In a breach notification posted on its website, T-Mobi... | Data_Breaches |
App Used by Israel's Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters | https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/Israeli-voter-data-leaked.html | An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the country is going to have a legislative election.
In Israel, all po... | Data_Breaches |
U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Hackers Over Equifax Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/equifax-chinese-military-hackers.html | The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans.
In a joint press conference held today with the Attorney General William Barr and FBI Deputy... | Data_Breaches |
Wawa Breach: Hackers Put 30 Million Stolen Payment Card Details for Sale | https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/wawa-credit-card-breach.html | Remember the recent payment card breach at Wawa convenience stores?
If you're among those millions of customers who shopped at any of 850 Wawa stores last year but haven't yet hotlisted your cards, it's high time to take immediate action.
That's because hackers have finally put up payment card details of more than 30... | Data_Breaches |
250 Million Microsoft Customer Support Records Exposed Online | https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/microsoft-customer-support.html | If you have ever contacted Microsoft for support in the past 14 years, your technical query, along with some personally identifiable information might have been compromised.
Microsoft today admitted a security incident that exposed nearly 250 million "Customer Service and Support" (CSS) records on the Internet due to ... | Data_Breaches |
Download: The State of Security Breach Protection 2020 Survey Results | https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/data-breach-protection-survey.html | What are the key considerations security decision-makers should take into account when designing their 2020 breach protection?
To answer this, we polled 1,536 cybersecurity professionals in The State of Breach Protection 2020 survey (Download the full survey here) to understand the common practices, prioritization, an... | Data_Breaches |
Landry's Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/landry-pos-malware-attack.html | Landry's, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers' payment card information.
Landry's owns and operates more than 600 bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos, food and beverage outlets with over 60 diff... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Stole Customers' Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores | https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/wawa-store-hacking.html | Have you stopped at any Wawa convenience store and used your payment card to buy gas or snacks in the last nine months?
If yes, your credit and debit card details may have been stolen by cybercriminals.
Wawa, the Philadelphia-based gas and convenience store chain, disclosed a data breach incident that may have expose... | Data_Breaches |
LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians | https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/lifelabs-data-breach.html | LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million Canadians customers.
The company announced the breach in a press release posted on its website, revealing that an unknown attacke... | Data_Breaches |
The 2020 State of Breach Protection Survey – Call for Participation | https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/breach-protection-survey.html | 2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations.
With rapidly growing security needs and respective budgets, it is now more essential than ever for security decision-makers to zoom out of the 'products' mindset and assess their secu... | Data_Breaches |
Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach Exposing Users' Account Info | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/magento-marketplace-data-breach.html | If you have ever registered an account with the official Magento marketplace to bought or sold any extension, plugin, or e-commerce website theme, you must change your password immediately.
Adobe—the company owning Magento e-commerce platform—today disclosed a new data breach incident that exposed account information ... | Data_Breaches |
OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/oneplus-store-data-breach.html | Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website.
The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via email and published a br... | Data_Breaches |
T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Wireless Customers | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/t-mobile-prepaid-data-breach.html | Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection.
The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some of the customers usin... | Data_Breaches |
Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers' Storage | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/hacking-file-storage.html | What could be even worse than getting hacked?
It's the "failure to detect intrusions" that always results in huge losses to the organizations.
Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016.... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Breach ZoneAlarm's Forum Site — Outdated vBulletin to Blame | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/zonealarm-forum-data-breach.html | ZoneAlarm, an internet security software company owned by Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach exposing data of its discussion forum users, the company confirmed The Hacker News.
With nearly 100 million downloads, ZoneAlarm offers antivirus software, firewall, and additional ... | Data_Breaches |
Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers | https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/insider-threat-data-breach.html | Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you're not alone.
While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company's data.
Unfortunately, when we say companies can't eliminate insider threat completely, cybersecurity firms, w... | Data_Breaches |
Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/domain-name-registrars-hacked.html | Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites.
The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and Register.com disclosed ... | Data_Breaches |
Two Hackers Who Extorted Money From Uber and LinkedIn Plead Guilty | https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/hackers-extorted-money.html | Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late 2016.
In a San Jose courthouse in California on Wednesday, Brandon Charles Glover (26) of Florida and Vasile Mereacre (... | Data_Breaches |
5 Places Where Hackers Are Stealthily Stealing Your Data In 2019 | https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/hacking-data-breach-protection.html | Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.
Here we examine the top five places in 2019 where cybercriminals are stealing corporate and government data without ever getting noticed and then learn how to avoid falling victim to unscrupulous att... | Data_Breaches |
UniCredit Bank Suffers 'Data Incident' Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records | https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/unicredit-bank-data-breach.html | UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information belonging to at least 3 million of its domestic customers.
Officially founded in 1870, UniCredit is Italy's biggest banking and financial services and one of t... | Data_Breaches |
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