All posts tagged "breach"
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1.3KNews845GB of sensitive explicit data on niche dating apps users exposed online
The breach took place due to misconfigured AWS Bucket. VpnMentor’s security research team headed by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar has discovered...
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4.8KSurveillanceLamphone attack recovers secretive conversations via hanging light bulb
Lamphone attack allowed researchers to recover conversations from a distance of 25 meters (82 feet). Earlier this year it was reported that...
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1.9KNewsDark web hacker leaks sensitive Indian defense contractor data
It is unclear who is behind the breach but apparently it was done by anti-Indian government hacker. Indian defense contactor Bharat Earth...
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2.0KNewsMAZE hackers hit US Nuclear contractor; steal sensitive documents
MAZE hackers have leaked the data on their website which is accessible to the public on the normal web as well as...
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389News8Belts exposes personal data of 100,000 e-learners globally
8Belts database was hosted on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. VpnMentor’s cybersecurity research team led by researchers Noam Rotem...
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Mobile payment app BHIM leaked financial data of 7 million Indians
According to researchers, 409 GB worth of BHIM’s customer data was available on a public domain. A week ago Hackread.com reported how...
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Joomla suffers security breach exposing user records
It total, 2,700 user records were exposed, Hackread.com has learned. The team behind Joomla, the third most widely used open-source content management...
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3.8KData SecurityAlleged data of 47.5 million Truecaller Indian users sold online
The data is being sold for $1,000 but Truecaller has denied the breach. We come across data breaches every day. Consequently, companies...
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3.3KData SecurityExclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries
The entire database is being sold for $30,000 on a hacker forum. Last month a hacker was selling 267 million Facebook user...
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1.2KData SecurityHackers leak data of 29 million Indian job seekers for download
The trove of Indian job seekers data is being downloaded by threat actors worldwide. India has a huge job market and the...
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3.2KData SecurityPersonal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online
The leak came after a misconfigured Elasticsearch server exposed Facebook users’ data involved in a previous breach. For the last few years,...
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2.4KNewsBrazil’s cosmetic giant Natura leaked 192 million records with payment data
The massive security failure by The Natura & Co Group exposed 2 misconfigured AWS databases for weeks to the public. A multi-billion...
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4.1KNewsEasyJet hacked in a sophisticated attack; 9 million customers affected
EasyJet says hackers accessed 2,208 payment cards in a “sophisticated attack.” The United Kingdom-based low-cost airline EasyJet has acknowledged that it was...
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1.0KData SecurityGDPR what? European Parliament breach exposes data of 1000s of people
Looking at the response of the Vice-President of the European Parliament’s IT policy, it seems like GDPR only applies to others but...
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3.1KNewsdb8151dd breach- Contact management firm leaks 22 million emails
Another day, another data breach – This one is called “db8151dd.” Security researcher Troy Hunt has revealed details of a massive, open...
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3.8KNewsStolen database trading site WeLeakData hacked; data leaked
We come across data breaches exposing sensitive data every day. Some are small in nature, some big enough to be reported in...
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713Data SecurityDigitalOcean suffers data breach after leaving internal document online
DigitalOcean has millions of customers worldwide. A couple of days ago it was reported that GoDaddy suffered a data breach after hackers...
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3.0KNewsHackers claim to breach Microsoft’s GitHub account; steal 500GB of data
In October 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub, the famous software version control system used by developers around the globe. Although it initially raised...
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2.3KData SecurityAdult streaming site CAM4 leaks 7 TB of data with 11 billion records
Just a couple of days ago it was reported that France’s largest newspaper Le Figaro exposed 8 terabytes of data containing 7.4...
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2.0KNewsGoDaddy suffers data breach after hackers access SSH accounts
GoDaddy Admits Data Breach Affecting Web Hosting Account Credentials of Unknown Number of Customers. Just last month a GoDaddy employee had their...
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615NewsHackers breach Ghost blogging platform to mine cryptocurrency
Ghost blogging platform presents itself as “the simple alternative to WordPress.” The popular open-source blogging platform Ghost has suffered a security breach...
