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MixCloud investigating a data breach that impacts more than 20 million registered users for the service. MixCloud is a popular music streaming service. The platform allows the listening and distribution of radio shows, DJ mixes, and podcasts which are uploaded by its users. The company said it has more than 17 million users. MixCloud was […]
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 of Magento marketplace users to an unknown group of hackers […]
Most of us should start to think more carefully about the data that we put online. It is becoming clear that no data we put online can ever be 100% safe, and 2019 had some of the worst data protection breaches yet. WhatsApp Hack Used to Install Spyware Any corporate cybersecurity breach is embarrassing for […]
Security researchers found an open Elasticsearch server that contains unique data sets of more than 1.2 billion users. The data found to associated with 2 different data enrichment companies. The data enrichment is a process of enhancing the data of the user profile by adding new data points of information. The elastic server containing the […]
OnePlus discloses a security breach, the company says that hackers accessed customers’ personal information users’ name, contact number, email and shipping address. The security incident was identified by OnePlus last week, some unauthorized user accessed the database where the customer’s information is stored. The company took immediate steps to stop the intrusion and informs impacted […]
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 brief FAQ page to disclose […]
American telecommunications giant T-Mobile Anoununced a data breach on its network, through which attackers gained access to a prepaid customer’s data. T-Mobile US provides wireless voice, messaging, and data services in the United States. The company operates the third largest wireless network in the U.S market with over 84.2 million customers and annual revenues of […]
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 using its prepaid services. What happened? In a statement posted […]
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. What’s ironic is […]
With only 36% of businesses prepared to respond to a data breach, it’s clear that many companies remain at risk of a significantly damaging breach of information in lieu of the digital age. However, while both physical and cybersecurity protections need to be put in place and improved on an annual basis, many business leaders don’t […]
Whistleblowers and electronic activists were shocked at the violation of privacy online for a long time. Now a host of technology entrepreneurs aim to turn an increasing awareness of the problem into a money making business, and many have demonstrated their expertise at this week’s Lisbon Web Summit. “With the current tensions, there is clearly […]
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 virus protection solutions to home PC users, small businesses, and mobile […]
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, who are meant to protect others, are not an […]
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 a security breach that may have resulted in the […]
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 (23) of Toronto […]
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 attackers. 1. Misconfigured Cloud Storage 48% of all corporate […]
One of the worlds leading domain name registrars Registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com, and Web.com announced a security breach on its network and it asks their customers to reset their passwords. NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com both are owned by web.com. Nearly 7.5 million domains registered under NetworkSolutions, the world’s fifth-largest domain name registrar. Web.com learned the incident on October 16, in […]
A huge database of more than 1.3 Credit and Debit Cards data put up for sale on Joker’s Stash, an infamous carding bazar that served as a distribution point for compromised payment card details. The Joker’s Stash market associated with several retail breaches, when a breach occurs it is the first place where the customer’s […]
Italian bank giant UniCredit disclosed that 3 million Italian clients’ data was exposed in the 2015 data breach. The bank confirms the threat the actors accessed a file containing the customer records. The bank also confirms that with the compromised details the attacker could not able to gain access to the customer accounts or perform […]
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 the leading European commercial banks with more than […]
A Texas man found guilty of hacking and abusing the LASC network for sending phishing emails was sentenced to a federal prison this week. The man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 33, from Katy, Texas, was found guilty of saving around 2 million malicious emails and hundreds of credit card names with the hacked LASC computer system. […]