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500px , an online photography community suffering a massive data breach that leaked 14.8 million users personal information by cybercriminals. 500px global network for photographers and the platform managing around 16 million users who get paid for their work and skills. Security experts learned this security incident in July 2018 when an unauthorized party breaking […]
A new shocking report revealed that almost 620 million online account data from 20 famous websites currently hackers selling it in dark web for less than $20,000 in Bitcoin. Selling data contains account holder names, email addresses, and passwords. These passwords are hashed and some of the other information such as location, personal details, and […]
Data breaches have become very common, a data breach is no longer news- you may say! Yes, this is true, to a very great extent. But, let’s look at the other side of it. As data breaches turn increasingly common, governments, organizations and individual users are also stepping up defenses to combat the breaches. Stricter […]
500px, the popular photography app has forced all its users to reset their user passwords in a deliberate attempt to secure the remaining areas of their database. The leak included a portion of their users, which released to the unknown 3rd parties. “On February 8, 2019, our engineering team became aware of a potential security […]
Perhaps the greatest challenge for every enterprise in this internet connected world is data protection. We’ve seen the devastating direct financial loss data breach brings to every business entity who happens to deal with it; the Bank of Bangladesh, Yahoo! Mail, and the not-so-recent JP Morgan Chase data breach are just a few of the […]
Power utilities are not safe against cybercriminals, this is the fact that has been proven by Eskom (Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie), a power utility in South Africa. Their database was leaked online, causing customer data being exposed to unauthorized access. A very vocal security expert named Devin Stokes has been very active against alleged Eskom’s negligence. “@Eskom_SA You […]
Vulnerability factor abuses how vulnerable an association or government foundation is to digital Incident. A PC arrange assault upsets the honesty or realness of information, typically through malicious code that adjusts program logic that controls information, prompting blunders in yield. Our developing reliance on innovation, network, and information imply that organizations show a greater assault […]
A security breach has impacted the POS (Point of Sale) system at Huddle House, the U.S-based casual dining and fast food restaurant chain. An official breach announcement dated February 1, 2019 reveals, “Huddle House values the relationship we have with our guests and wants you to be aware of an incident that may involve your […]
Houzz suffered a data breach that exposes user personal data. The home design firm learned that user data was accessed by an unauthorized third party. The data breach was learned by the design firm in late December 2018 and the firm immediately launched a forensics investigation. “Our security team has a number of ways to […]
After 3 years of hearing, a U.S. judge has denied Yahoo’s planned settlement in connection with the Yahoo email’s data breach from 2013 to 2016. It was dubbed the biggest data breach in the world as it compromised an estimated 3 billion accounts. Lucy Koh, U.S. District Judge who first became popular with the Apple […]
SBI Data Leak allows anyone to access millions of its customer’s financial data and recent transactions history. SBI is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services, it is the largest bank in India with a 23% market share in assets. According to TechCrunch report, an SBI server in Mumbai-based data center that stored […]
A new collection of massive breached database freely distributed on hacker forums and torrents. The breached database contains a collection of 2.2 billion unique usernames and it’s passwords. The database named Collections #2 to #5 contains 845GB of stolen data and contains 25 billion records in total. The massive collection of the breached database was […]
Airbus IT system suffering from a data breach that resulted in unauthorized access of Airbus employees personal & Sensitive Data. Airbus European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace products worldwide with more than 129,000 Employees. Experts learned the cyber incidents in their Airbus “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems, but it doesn’t affect the […]
A data breach that hit Airbus has reportedly employees of the aircraft manufacturing company. European aerospace corporation Airbus has disclosed that a security breach, which led to unauthorized access to its data, has, however, had no impact on its commercial operations. An official statement published by Airbus on 30 January 2019 says, “Airbus SE (stock […]
January 2019 does not lack any grand scale cybersecurity news, the year just got started and we’re hearing data breaches, virus infections, and stolen data issues regularly as we reported here in hackercombat.com. This time, the news about a record of at least 24 million loans and mortgages from US-based banks were affected by the […]
Welcome to the Massive Data breach of 2019, around 773 million datas contains email addresses and passwords were breached and circulated in hacker forums. This data breach seems to be bigger and critical than earlier breaches like “Equifax” and “Marriott International“. Let’s have a look into This Massive Data Breach The data set was first […]
Researchers discovered a major security vulnerability in online flight ticket booking system that affected almost half of the fight travelers around the world. The Vulnerability was discovered by Noam Rotem , an Isreal security researcher when he was trying to book a flight in ELAL Israel Airlines. He uncovered this critical flaw in the widely […]
Late last year, we have featured here in Hackercombat.com the story about Marriot International Hotel chain data breach and the resulting accusation against China allegedly being the one behind the attack, which Beijing denied. Seems like the story continues to thicken, as the hotel chain’s leadership itself admitted that around 5 million passport records have […]
Real-time location data of more than 11k indian buses exposed online from improperly secured ElasticSearch server, Kibana server, and InfluxDB administrative page. Security researcher Justin Paine discovered the improperly secured servers that exposed significant amount of data from 27 Indian government agencies. The server has no authentication enabled and the information is available for anyone […]
We are only starting the second week of 2019, but Australia’s government already experienced its first data breach of the year. Around 30,000 personal information of government staff working for the Victorian government was breached. The infiltration incident stole employees and officials’ records containing their full name, phone numbers, work email addresses and job titles. […]
KrisFlyer, the frequent flyer program of Singapore Airlines is facing a critical software bug that caused 285 of its members to have their personal information exposed to other KrisFlyer members. Singapore Airlines has blamed this issue to a bug in their website, that caused details of their frequent fliers to leak, including the member’s full […]