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Sprint Corporation, an American telecommunications company has announced that it has suffered a data breach after unknown hackers accessed customer accounts credentials using the Samsung.com “add a line” website. Originally, the company was informed about the breach on June 22nd, 2019. The personal information which was accessed in the incident included full names, phone numbers, […]
The data breach took place after a database used by Border Patrol was hit by a “malicious cyber-attack.” The officials from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have revealed that one of their subcontractors have been targeted with a “malicious” cyber attack due to which the pictures of tourists entering and leaving the US have […]
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after its web payment page was accessed by an unauthorized individual. In a press release, the company revealed that its billing system, which is managed by the Quest contractor called Optum360’s hired vendor American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), […]
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just yesterday, it was reported that the online graphic-design tool website Canva had suffered a massive data breach in which a hacker stole over 139 million accounts of registered users. Now, the highly popular social sharing and news […]
Canva has contacted the FBI to investigate the data breach. Canva, an online graphic-design tool website operated from Australia has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 139 million registered users has been stolen – The breach took place on Friday, May 24. The stolen data includes usernames, real names, email […]
Google knows “what, when, where & how much” about your online shopping but claims it does not use the data for advertisement. Gmail is home to more than 1.5 billion users which makes it a lucrative service for Google whose business model demands data collected from users’ online searches, web browsing, and other online activities. […]
According to a recent report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), cybercrime has risen by an incredible 63% and is primarily caused by malware and computer misuse. However, despite the real threat hackers pose to companies of all sizes, many businesses are failing to take the issue seriously. To ensure your organization never falls […]
The company claims it does not share user data with others but looks like it does. Another day, another data breach; this time an unprotected database has been discovered leaking personal and financial data of millions of Canadians. Identified by researchers at vpnMentor along with hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar; the database belonged to […]
In the world of digital transformation when everything is facilitated by technology, enterprises are able to learn more about their customers through personalization, so when the things are going that way, one cannot guarantee privacy in today’s digital world. Remember Mark Zuckerberg teaches us about privacy, and then we have Alexa listening and recording our […]
The 24 GB database was hosted on a Microsoft cloud server. Another day, another data breach; this time researchers have discovered an unprotected cloud repository containing personal and financial information of more than 80 million US households. This incident reminds us of two similar breaches in which highly sensitive data of 200 million and 82 […]
Microsoft says its official Microsoft images hosted in Docker Hub have not been compromised. The company behind Docker, a computer program developed to manage operating-system-level virtualization has announced that it has suffered a data breach and as a result, one of Docker Hub databases have been accessed by unknown hackers. The attack was detected on […]
Bodybuilding.com will contact all former and current users – The website has over seven million registered users. The world-renowned fitness platform Bodybuilding.com has suffered a data breach in which personal data of registered users has been accessed. The breach was identified in February 2019 and after conducting an investigation it was revealed that it was a […]
Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in a readable format and asked users for their email’s passwords for “verification.” On 21st March, 2018, the social media giant Facebook admitted that it stored passwords of 600 million users including “tens of thousands” of passwords belonging to Instagram users in plain-text which were accessible to over 20,000 […]
If you use the Internet, password managers should be a part of your online life as users are at high risk of cybercrime in this digital and technological era. Hackers are always looking for a way to access sensitive data of the vulnerable individual, and unfortunately, weak passwords are the greatest vulnerability into a person’s […]
Toyota suffers third consecutive data breach within a few weeks. World famous Japanese automobile maker Toyota has become the target of a third data breach only within two months’ time. In the latest data breach, it is reported that the company lost data of 3.1 million customers. Previously, Toyota Australia was targeted by cybercriminals and […]
We normally consider family locator app as a blessing because we are able to track our family members conveniently through them. But, what if your private data collected or shared on such an app gets misused by cybercriminals because the app fails to secure it properly? It would instantly become a nuisance…no? The same has […]
Verifications.io breach is one of the largest data breaches but the good news is that it does not involve passwords. Another day, another data breach; this time the email validation service Verifications.io has leaked a humongous database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 2 billion individuals around the world. Verifications.io breach – What happened It […]
Enterprise software developer Citrix becomes a victim of state-sponsored hack attack after hackers steal the company’s secrets. One of the most popular enterprise software and networking and remote access technology provider firm Citrix affirmed that its internal network was compromised by international criminals. Reportedly, the attackers exploited weak passwords and managed to get limited access […]
The incident took place on Saturday, March 2, when hackers tried to plant ransomware on over one million Israeli web pages, in a bid to lock the users out until they paid a ransom. Unfortunately, the plan did not go as well as expected, and it was thwarted. Nevertheless, they manage to deface many web […]
It hasn’t even been 15 days since details of the world’s biggest online private data dump were discovered by security researchers and now its second “installment” has posted online. As per the report from Heise.de, a German-language website, the first collection, which was published on January 17 and dubbed as Collections #1 had approx. 770 […]
It’s a whopping 87GB data – Find out if you are affected by the massive data breach. Security researcher and founder of Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt, has revealed that around 773 million ‘unique’ email IDs and 22 million ‘unique’ passwords were available on MEGA cloud service. Later on, the same data was found posted […]