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A group of threat actors have hacked into Perceptics, the most-used car plate license reader manufacturer in the United States; according to web application penetration testing specialists hackers accessed the company’s internal files and published them for free download in various dark web forums. Last Thursday, a group of hackers, self-appointed as “Boris Bullet-Dodge”, contacted […]
Experts from the IICS cyber security training report a data breach at Truecaller, the popular service to avoid phone and SMS spam. The personal data of millions of service’s users, mostly residents of India, are exposed in hacker forums in dark web, an Internet sector where cybercriminals can put on sale illicit products and services. […]
Web application security testing specialists reported a data breach incident in Canva, a web design platform developed in Australia; a malicious actor claims to have compromised the security of the platform to steal information belonging to about 139 million users. According to the reports, the extracted information includes: Users’ full names Website usernames Email addresses […]
First American Financial Corp, a U.S based financial services company leaked Hundreds of Million of Most sensitive records online that related to real estate and mortgage industries. First American Fin corp is one of the oldest company the U.S and the company running its operation nearly 130 years with the core services of real property […]
Web application security testing specialists reported the finding of a massive database exposed online containing contact data of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities, and business accounts. Experts mention that the database was hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and was exposed without any authentication measures, so any user could access the leaked information. When detected, […]
Australian authorities have reported that, after conducting an information security audit, they’ve found that more than 10 million people have been affected by a recent data breach incident; this is equivalent to almost 50% of the total population of the country (25 million inhabitants). The incident was revealed by the Australian Information Commissioner Office (ICO) […]
G Suite users were taken aback yesterday when Google disclosed that it stored some passwords for Enterprise G Suite users in plain text for 14 years. In a blog post, the search giant mentioned that the passwords were encrypted but not hashed, which means that Google employees had complete access to them. However, the company […]
Information security audit specialists reported that HCL, an important IT services company, left exposed online the passwords of its employees, among other data, such as confidential information related to the company clients’ projects. According to reports, an online portal of the company’s human resources area exposed names of newly-entered employees, usernames for the platform, and […]
A new massive database uncovered that contains nearly 49 million of Instagram Influencer’s, celebrities and brand account contact information leaked online. Security researcher Anurag Sen discovered this unprotected database and reported to Tech Crunch, in result, owners have been notified and secured the database. Further investigation reveals that the database owned by Mumbai-based social media […]
A massive trove of data containing contact information of more than 49 million Instagram influencers and celebrities has surfaced online. As reported by TechCrunch, the database existed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and was not encrypted or protected by password, making the details visible to anyone. The database that was discovered by security analyst Anurag […]
Note: We have updated this story to reflect new information after Stack Overflow changed its original announcement and shared more details on the security incident. Stack Overflow, one of the largest question and answer site for programmers, revealed today that unknown hackers managed to exploit a bug in its development tier and then almost a […]
Stack Overflow, a question & answer based site for professional and programmers founded in 2008 reported a security breach. The company confirmed that hackers gained access to the production systems on May 11, it is unclear on how hackers gained access to the internal networks. Mary Ferguson, VP of Engineering at Stack Overflow, confirmed the […]
WhatsApp has today disclosed that a vulnerability allowed hackers to install national grade spyware on phones. The vulnerability was discovered in May this year and exploited a flaw in the audio call feature of the messaging app. The caller was able to install the spyware on the affected phones even though the receiver declined the […]
The U.S. Department of Justice State Prosecutors found probable cause to charge 32-year old Fujie Wang, a Chinese national for allegedly responsible for the data breach in Anthem, a health insurance firm, four years ago in 2015. The incident which resulted in Anthem losing control of at least 78.8 million records. Accused as a member […]
After performing a web application security testing, the operators of Wyzant, well-known website to contact and hire personal tutors in more than 200 different subjects, have confirmed a data breach that exposes sensitive details of the users of the platform. Currently Wyzant has over two million users and more than 70k active tutors. Wyzant sent […]
Wyzant—an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects—has suffered a data breach exposing “certain personal identification information” for its customers. The Hacker News received a copy of an email notification Wyzant recently sent to its affected customers, which reveals […]
In recent times we have seen a numerous number of cyber attacks targeting the healthcare firm. For example the case of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (healthcare provider) had almost 279,865 individuals affected by the data breach, similarly, there were 17 other healthcare organizations that become victim to cyber attacks in 2018. In […]
Citrix finally confirms that the cybercriminals successfully compromised their internal network and accessed the most sensitive files also they removed from their network during the security breach that reported in March. Citrix Systems, Inc.a well-known software company that provides server, application, and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service, and cloud computing technologies for NASA, […]
Cyber forensics course specialists have reported a cyberattack that has affected more than 80 million of property owners in the U.S. The attack campaign is reportedly still active, so the number of people affected could increase in the next few days. Ran Locator and Noam Rotem, renowned cyber activists, discovered an exposed database; the activists […]
An unknown mystery database exposed nearly 80 million U.S households data that impacting up to 65% of US households. Security Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar uncovered the 24 GB database which is hosted by a Microsoft cloud server. The database contains highly sensitive data that belongs to U.S peoples who are living in each […]
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 […]