A lot of our personal information could be stored online forever Limiting the exposure of your personal data can be a very simple or too complex task depending on each person. In addition, according to cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, people cannot completely prevent a digital platform from collecting their information, […]
Marriott International announced a security breach that affected more than 500 million guests who made a reservation at Starwood Hotels and resorts. Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts in the mid-2016. Mariott identified about the intrusion on September 10, after receiving an alert form their internal security testing tool. They learned an unauthorized access […]
If you use this extension for the Chrome browser, it is recommended to uninstall it immediately Ethical hacking experts report that the official Chrome extension for the MEGA cloud storage service would have been compromised and replaced by a malicious version that can steal users’ credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github and Google, as well […]
WTF is a personal terminal-based dashboard utility, designed for displaying infrequently-needed, but very important, daily data. WTF Installation There are two ways to install WTF: From Source Get this repo and install the dependencies: go get -u github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf make install make run and that should probably do it. As a Binary Grab the […]
Honda Car India leaked over 50,000 users Personal information of it’s Honda Connect App which is stored in the publicly unsecured Amazon AWS S3 Buckets. Experts recently discovered two public unsecured Inside of the AWS Bucket contains an unprotected database which maintained by Honda Connect App. Honda-Connect is a smartphone app that boasts that it gives the user […]
The Virginia-based firm WEI Mortgage has disclosed recently that it has been hit by a data breach which could have led to sensitive personal data of its customers getting exposed. WEI Mortgage is a subsidiary of Arc Home and provides quality mortgages to home buyers and homeowners, with a coverage including 45 states and with […]
Mobile phone manufacturer and vendor OnePlus has been targeted by hackers, leading to a data breach that has exposed customers’ personal information. As per reports, sensitive credit card information of as many as 40,000 customers have been stolen as a result of the security breach that has hit Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus. The company had […]
Earlier this week, Variety reported that Instagram account of actress and singer Selena Gomez, the world’s most followed person on the photo-based social network, was hacked. The hackers also posted NSFW pictures of her ex-boyfriend and pop star Justin Bieber via her account. Eventually, the account was restored. Now, the Facebook-owned service has revealed that […]
Airline confirms hack that took place on March 13. Virgin America has confirmed in a letter sent to employees that its network was compromised by hackers, with data belonging to thousands of workers compromised and possibly stolen by the attackers. While an investigation is already under way, the airline did not provide any specifics about the hackers, saying […]
An unknown hacker stole the personal information of nearly 100,000 McDonald’s Canada job applicants by breaching the fast food chain’s jobs website, the company confirmed on Friday afternoon. The hack affected anybody who applied for a job online at McDonald’s in Canada between March of 2014 and March of 2017. The information that was compromised included […]
Short Bytes: FamilyTreeNow.com is one of the creepiest websites on the internet. It stores a striking amount of personal data — including name, age, family members, and addresses — which can’t be ignored. It looks like a free database that has fetched information from thousands of U.S. public records. Anna Brittain, a writer who brought […]
The young hacker Mys7erioN announced to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. Data leaked online. Today I was contacted via Twitter by Mys7erioN who revealed me to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. As proof of the hack, Mys7erioN published on Pastebin the records […]
Short Bytes: An attack by a hacker has just revealed the sensitive information of about 20,000 FBI employees. Besides this personal contact information of the FBI employees, the hacker also claims to have more sensitive data like credit card number and some military emails. The game, which began last year when a hack at the […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous is planning to leak personal information of around 1000 members of the white supremacist Christian organization the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Last year, anonymous gave a brutal response to Ku Klux Klan when they threatened the Ferguson protestors. Many of KKK’s websites went offline; members were exposed (their identities were made public) and […]
Summary: Personal Data of More than 500Million Android Users in Danger — Researchers Claim it is Impossible to Fully Delete Data from Handset after changing Mobile Phone. Even after full wipe it is possible to access text messages, emails, apps, photos and videos because around 630million cell phones cannot clear internal SD cards when the […]
It is our duty to protect our data— but are we ready? No one would have thought that the most practical invention of the past decade will be the Smartphone. It is a reality that we cannot live without these devices at all. Smartphones have become a mandatory part of our life since with few […]
Spammers are taking advantage of the various online petitions against the recent news about the alleged arming of the Syrian rebels by the US to trick Internet users to disclose their personal information, according to media reports. In response to the US involvement in the Syrian civil war, wherein the US intervention and its support […]
More than 300,000 records of faculty, staff, students, and affiliates of the Maryland University were breached, according to the University’s president. In a written note to the students and faculty, Wallace D. Loh, the president, confirmed that no financial records, academic, health or contact information were compromised and the hack was confined to personal information […]
A breach which has leaked personal data for two million Vodafone Germany customers has ben claimed to be the work of an insider, according to Vodafone.
Penetration into the state database has compromised the personal information of thousands of college students in Florida. Well it gives rise to the question that whether or not the data of all of students is protected or not. The breach occurred back in May and the data which was exposed comprised of the home addresses […]
Thank to CWN for reporting, the official website of Okara District Police (okarapolice.com) Pakistan was hacked by @ThisISGame0ver for #OpSlaughterHouse. The hacker breached the site and leaked personal information of Police officers online, the details contains login details of website administrator’s usernames, address, contact details, phone numbers, plain text and encrypted passwords. After looking into the passwords set by the admin for […]