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Technology has transformed the face of modern business, and thanks to the internet, it’s easier and faster to share data than ever before. However, sending your sensitive information out into the ether comes with a certain amount of risk, especially now cyber attacks are happening so frequently. Cyber resilience is essential for any business, and […]
It’s another day with yet another story of a data breach affecting millions of users around the world – This time, the targeted platforms are Bitly and Kickstarter. Bit.ly Troy Hunt, an IT security researcher and founder of breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) has discovered that Bitly, a URL shortener service provider was compromised back in May 2014 […]
Who doesn’t know about Disqus? It is the most commonly used hosted discussion system on news websites and forums. Of course, this requires subscribing to the service in order to comment. So, if you have an account on Disqus since 2007, then you have every reason to worry since the service became a victim of […]
Database on Amazon Web Services Containing Sensitive Data of Viacom Is Publicly Available. Amazon Web Services S3 is in the news for all the wrong reasons as its Cloud storage has been found leaking massive amounts of data. A few days back we informed our readers about the findings of Kromtech Security Research Center in […]
A flaw in Apache Struts framework caused Exposure of Personal Data of 143 million Equifax customers. Equifax, a credit security agency suffered a massive data breach in July this year in which personal information of about 143 million American consumers was exposed. For this, the firm is also facing a billion dollar lawsuit. Now, according to […]
As reported yesterday, the credit reporting agency Equifax was hacked by unknown attackers. Now, it is being reported that the credit giant has been slapped with a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over the data breach in which personal details of 143 million consumers was stolen – This is over 40% of the entire population of the United […]
Another day, another data breach – This time Taringa, a Reddit-like social network website for Latin American users has suffered a massive data breach in which 28 million accounts of registered users have been stolen. This was revealed when LeakBase, a data breach notification website got their hands on Taringa database. Upon scanning, it was concluded that in […]
Another day another breach. CeX Ltd., the United Kingdom based electronic retail giant, has suffered a data breach in which personal details of about 2 million customers have been stolen. The company is known for dealing in second-hand goods with 350 stores in the UK and more than 100 around the world. According to CeX’s blog post, […]
A showdown between hackers and accountants is unlikely to have the same action-packed appeal as the latest summer superhero blockbuster, but the stakes in that real-life showdown are no less significant. Accounting firms are at a heightened risk for cyber attacks because they hold large amounts of their clients’ personal and financial data, they are […]
Another day another massive data leak – This time it is being reported that personal details of 14 million Verizon Wireless customers have been exposed online due to a misconfigured cloud-based file repository on behalf of a third-party vendor in Israel known as Nice system. The data repository, an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket was being administered by […]
Hackers have targeted 14 Trump Hotels stealing personal and payment card data of customers again. The incident took place when hackers breached the booking reservation system of Sabre Hospitality Solutions, a third-party contractor used by Trump Hotels. According to the list published on the Trump Hotels website, the Donald Trump‘s properties affected by the Sabre Hospitality Solutions incident include Trump […]
A couple of days ago reports came in that The Automobile Association (The AA), a British motoring association suffered a massive data breach. As a result, 13GB of its highly sensitive customer and financial data was exposed online. The AA denied that the leaked data contained any sensitive information but Scott Helme, a cyber-security researcher who […]
Google has informed its employees that their personal data including names, credit card and contact details have been stolen after hackers broke into a travel agency software working with Google. In a letter, Google informed the affected employees about the breach and explained that their drivers’ license, passport, and Social Security Numbers (SSN) were not stolen. The […]
It seems like every other day; we see a story on the news about the latest major data breach that has compromised the personal and financial records of hundreds and thousands of unsuspecting customers. It’s even more frightening to think about how many unknown data breaches might have occurred without anyone finding out. In many […]
In a recent investigation, researchers at “Which?” discovered that Virgin’s Super Hub 2 router could be easily hacked in as little as four days. Upon discovery, Virgin Media immediately announced to its user base of 800,000 customers to change their account details as soon as possible. The lurking threat The vulnerability poses a minor threat to […]
Most of you who might have shopped from GameStop might be aware of the incident that took place almost two months ago in April when the retail giant announced that many of its customers’ credit card information had been hacked and stolen. What is surprising though, that it is only now that the company is […]
A survey conducted by Altman Vilandrie & Company, a strategy consulting group based in the United States, studied how many firms have been subject to a security breach and what did it cost them as such. The results showed that as much as 48% of the 400 IT executives surveyed told that a security breach […]
OneLogin, Inc., the developers of single sign-on and identity management for cloud-based applications has announced that its servers for the US region have been hacked and accessed by a third party. As a result; encrypted information related to its password management service (OneLogin) has been stolen. According to OneLogin’s security advisory, the unauthorized access was detected […]
Amidst the recent series of attacks launched on various computers through the WannaCry Malware, a relatively minor incident occurred in which Spotify took the hit by having its user’s credentials dumped on a public website for everyone to see. The Leak Boat The hacker group, Leak Boat, has claimed responsibility for publishing the usernames and […]
A couple of days ago it was reported that Troy Hunt, a cyber security blogger got his hands on a trove of data that was compiled by cyber criminals through brute force technique and some collected from previous data breaches. The data Hunt discovered was in two lists with one list containing 457,962,538 accounts while the […]
Debenhams, a British multinational retailer giant, said that its Flowers website was compromised and as a result, personal and financial information of 26,000 customers was stolen. The news came out when Debenhams sent emails to its customers revealing that their Flowers supplier, Ecomnova, a third-party company that owns flower and gifting websites, has experienced a cyber attack on […]