The ever-changing topography of cyberspace always results in the introduction of new security flaws and vulnerabilities. A major vulnerability, which is now known as CVE-2023-34000 and has a CVSS score of 7.5, has been discovered in the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway Plugin, which has prompted an urgent call to action for both site administrators and security […]
Toyota Motor Corporation reveals a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of its customers after an access key was made available to the public on GitHub for over five years. The data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, a joint venture with Indian giant Kirloskar Group, has been reported to the appropriate Indian […]
Samsung suffers a data breach for second time that exposes customer information in the US. The company notified its customers regarding the breach that revealed customers’ names, addresses, and other personal information. “An unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems. We determined through our ongoing investigation that the personal information of […]
Samsung admitted to having suffered a cybersecurity incident in late July and early August, where “an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of the company’s systems” in the United States. Among the information that the attackers obtained are names, birthdays, contact information and product registrations. The company has already responded to this attack and […]
Akasa Air, India’s newest commercial airline, exposed the personal data belonging to its customers that the company blamed on a technical configuration error. According to security researcher Ashutosh Barot, the issue is rooted in the account registration process, leading to the exposure of details such as names, gender, email addresses, and phone numbers. The bug […]
Drowning in spam? A study presented at Black Hat USA 2021 examines if sharing your personal information with major companies contributes to the deluge of nuisance emails, texts and phone calls.
Currently any company is exposed to computer security incidents. This time, web application security experts report that OnePlus, a smartphone manufacturer based in China, has suffered a data breach that led to the exposure of some personal details of its customers. Through a statement, the company mentioned that “an unauthorized actor accessed the information of […]
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 […]
Information security specialists from firm vpnMentor, led by expert Noam Rotem, discovered a data breach that affected Gekko Group, a subsidiary brand of Accor Hotels. Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns several smaller brands. It seems that the database compromised during this incident hosted a considerable amount of […]
According to information security specialists, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suffered a data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of thousands of city drivers; the incident would have given other government agencies undue access to this information. This incident is particularly serious for illegal migrants residing in the state, as the leaked […]
According to information security specialists, about one hundred web application developers may have had inadequate access to the data of millions of Facebook users, as the company made a mistake that led to the revocation of some restrictions on the access to this information. Because the data breach was publicly disclosed only through Facebook’s developer […]
Talk about security blunders! Data of more than 7.5 million Adobe Creative users, including personal information, was exposed to anyone with a web browser. According to the researcher behind the report, Bob Diachenko, the private information of users was estimated to be sitting in unprotected cache for about a week. The exposed information comprised member […]
IT security audit researchers at security firm Safety Detectives have revealed a massive data leak (up to 2 terabytes) hosted on an Elastic Server. The flaw affects around 3.5 million users of websites Pouringpounds.com and Cashkaro.com in India and the United Kingdom, whose data is already on sale on dark web. Both websites are operated […]
Drivers license numbers of around 100,000 ‘ Dashers ‘ have also been accessed. DoorDash revealed in a blog post on Thursday that it had information about a third-party unauthorized access to 4.9 million customers. Customers, drivers and dealers joining the DoorDash platform on or before 5 April 2018 were infringed on 4 May 2019. The […]
Data protection specialists report that UNICEF, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian assistance agency for children, mistakenly leaked the personal information of thousands of people through Agora, an online learning system. Although the official version speaks of a human error, many still fear that it is actually a hacking attack. A couple of weeks ago, an […]
Network security specialists say that MasterCard, a major payment card operator, has suffered a data breach that exposes the personal information and card numbers of thousands of users, mainly residents of Germany; the company is investigating the incident and notifying affected customers. Although the company remains airtight respect for this incident, some details have gradually […]
A data breach incident has just been revealed at Air New Zeland airline that, according to network security experts, could have affected more than 110k members of Airponts, its frequent flyer rewards system. The compromised personal data include: Full names Address Date of birth Passport details, maybe The number of affected users known so far […]
Besides their makeup, thousands of Sephora customers should start worrying about the security of their personal information. Security audit specialists report that the French cosmetics company has begun notifying its customers in Southeast Asia of a cybersecurity incident recently occurring in one of the company’s databases. “Your personal information is truly important to us, as […]
Any time you go online, you open yourself up to the risk of being hacked. Whilst this is a rather unpleasant truth, it’s one we must recognize regardless in order to keep ourselves safe on the internet. Thankfully, there are lots of ways to protect yourself online. Despite the abundance of hacks, scams, malware and […]
Iranian cyber espionage group APT39 focus on stealing on personal information o perform monitoring, tracking, or surveillance operations against specific individuals. The group carrying a widespread campaign focused their operations in the Middle East, the U.S. and South Korea. Following are the industries targeted including telecommunications, travel industries, high-tech industry, and government entities. “We have […]
Another day, another data breach. This time it’s the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency’s servers was hacked. In an internal memo sent to all employees […]