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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) experienced a data breach leading to exposure of highly sensitive personal data of nearly 75,000 people. The CMS is a government system linked with healthCare.gov which assists insurance agents and brokers in helping people register for its healthcare plans. An announcement was made late Friday by the CMS […]
FBI has asked Facebook not to discuss who may be behind this attack. On September 28th, 2018 the social media giant Facebook announced that it suffered a massive data breach in which hackers stole access tokens of millions of accounts after exploiting a critical vulnerability in its “View As” feature. At that time, the estimate […]
Firefox has joined hands with Have I Been Pwned for this project. Mozilla introduced a new service earlier this year called Firefox Monitor, and now the company is adding a new feature to this service. The newly added feature will take scrutiny to a whole new level by allowing users to sign up for getting […]
The stolen data also includes “encrypted” passwords. Another day, another T-Mobile data breach. This time, the telecommunication giant T-Mobile has announced that it has suffered a data breach in which unknown hackers have stolen personal data of 2 million customers. According to the official statement by T-Mobile, on August 20th, its cybersecurity firm identified an unauthorized access to certain information […]
Georgia-based Augusta University Health has admitted for becoming the victim of a data breach back in 2017. In the data breach, personal data of more than 417,000 patients, students, and faculty members got leaked. The breach resulted from a phishing attack. Augusta University informed about the breach in a message that read: “It is with […]
The same company was once caught spying on its Keyboard app users. GOMO, which is also known as Sungy Mobile, is a well-known Chinese mobile app and software developer company. It is famous worldwide for GO series applications (Yes, the developers of popular GOKeyboard app that was caught spying on millions of its users last year). […]
Reddit says the breach took place after hackers intercepted SMS that were supposed to be delivered to employees. The social media giant Reddit has announced that it has suffered a data breach in which attackers hacked into its system and ended up stealing data of its registered users including emails and encrypted passwords. Reddit discovered the […]
The IT security researchers at cyber resilience firm Upguard discovered a massive trove of highly sensitive data publically available to be accessed by anyone. The data belonged to hundreds of automotive giants including Tesla, Ford, Toyota, GM, Fiat, ThyssenKrupp, and Volkswagen – Thanks to a publically exposed server owned by Level One Robotics, a Canadian firm providing industrial automation services. The data […]
Private records of millions of patients could be at risk following the breach. Security experts have been warning about expected cyber-attacks on healthcare industry since last year’s huge hack-attack on Florida based Medicaid in which private data of nearly 30,000 patients were exposed…. and we have another victim already. According to a DailyMail’s report, cybercriminals […]
Telefonica, a telecom operator based in Spain, has become a victim of a security breach after hackers managed to exploit a vulnerability that led to the exposure of private data of millions of Telefonica customers while leaking billing data of other customers. The billing data is easily accessible by the general public simply by logging […]
Timehop is a smartphone app for iOS and Android users that was developed in 2011 with the idea of collecting old posts and photos of social media users including Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox and Twitter to display them as the same day in past years. However, now the company is making headlines for all the wrong […]
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which sensitive health-related data of over 150,000 patients have been exposed. The data breach took place due to a coding error in the software used by GPs, TPP’s SystmOne and affected patients who did not opt-in to share their data that NHS […]
Another day, another data breach – Adidas believes hackers did not steal customers’ credit card or health and fitness data. One of the world’s largest sportswear manufacturer Adidas has announced that hackers have targeted its US website and as a result, personal details of millions of Adidas US customers have been stolen. According to Addidas, it is […]
The Firefox Monitor will be launched next week – The tool aims at alerting users if their email has been compromised. Last year, HackRead reported that Mozilla Foundation is planning to join hands with HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP), a popular data breach notification website and the aim of it will be to send an in-browser alert to Firefox browser users if they […]
One of the largest flight tracking services, Flightradar24, which shows real-time airplane locations on the map has suffered a massive data breach that may have leaked emails and encrypted passwords of over 230,000 users. The company began sending email to the users earlier this week, asking them to change their passwords. Flightradar24’s incomplete announcement about […]
A prominent United Kingdom-based retailer has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial data of millions of customers have been compromised. The targeted company Dixons Carphone acknowledged the breach and stated that hackers were able to access 1.2 million personal data records and 5.9 million payment cards from the processing systems of its Currys […]
The Australia-based SaaS provider firm PageUp has confirmed discovering ‘unusual activity’ on its IT infrastructure and identified the presence of a malware on its system. On May 23rd, the HR company posted a statement on its official website revealing about a possible malware attack that might have resulted in compromising its customers’ data. Upon discovering the […]
MyHeritage, an Israeli DNA, and genealogy website has suffered a massive data breach in which email accounts and hashed passwords of 92 million users (92,283,889) who signed up to the service up to October 26, 2017, have been stolen. The compromised MyHeritage data was discovered by a security researcher on a private server outside of MyHeritage and reported […]
pwnedOrNot is a python script which checks if the email account has been compromised in a data breach, if the email account is compromised it proceeds to find passwords for the compromised account. It uses haveibeenpwned v2 api to test email accounts and searches for the password in Pastebin Dumps This script has been tested […]
Okta has introduced new password manager PassProtect in its latest, free Google Chrome browser extension. If you think that by keeping a strong and difficult password your account will remain safe from hackers, then you are mistaken. But, if you think that despite being featured in a data breach you can keep the same password […]
The United Arab Emirates-based ride-hailing giant Careem has been hacked. As a result, personal and private data of 14 million drivers and customers has been stolen. Careem is Uber’s rival in the Middle East and South Asia and North Africa. The company operates in 80 cities in 13 countries and valued $1.2 billion in 2017. What […]