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Dana Nessel, the Michigan Atty. General has issued a warning to residents that 600,000 residents of Michigan needs to monitor their bank accounts due to the Wolverine Solution Group’s possible data breach due to ransomware infection that occured last Sep 2018. The official is highly recommending people who received a notification letter confirming that their […]
What is Article 13? The European Union has passed a wide-reaching update to copyright laws, the first since 2001. Most of the changes in the EU Copyright Directive are uncontroversial, setting out how copyright contracts are managed and licensed, but Article 13 could have a huge impact on how material is shared online. Put simply, […]
Data breaches seem to have become a trend in the tech world as various tech companies appear to be involved in some (everyone knows about Facebook!). Now, a new report suggests that HMD Global-owned Nokia could also be a part of the league, as some Nokia phones have reportedly sent user information to Chinese servers. […]
Security researchers discovered 257,287 legal documents from unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that hosted on a US-based Amazon AWS server. The unprotected sensitive documents labeled as “not designated for publication‘” and the data contains 4.7GB highly sensitive legal documents. Further investigation reveals that the data managed by Lex Machina, an IP litigation research company and division of […]
The Carmel Unified School District in the state of California has reportedly been hit by a phishing scam. Reports say that the Carmel Unified School District has sent out an email to employees notifying them of this attack; the email reportedly informs them that there has been unauthorized access to some email accounts within the […]
Facebook has gained a lot of negative spotlights for all the data breach scandals it has got its head into. Adding more to the scrutiny, the social networking site is now under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, as per a report by The New York Times. It is suggested that a New York jury has […]
Box is a cloud management system as like AWS S3 buckets, to manage and access your data. You can place the files in the Box storage and it can be shared to anyone through links. The data leak is not due to a bug or vulnerability, the problem is with the account administrators who created […]
A group of, allegedly Iranian, hackers stole around 6 TB of confidential information According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Citrix, the enterprise management software company, has suffered a massive data breach after an intrusion into its internal network. Citrix serves organizations like the FBI, the U.S. Army, and some […]
It is still unknown how long the information remained exposed Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported a massive data leaking from multiple online platforms; according to the first reports, in total have been found 2,069,145,043 records, all without some kind of encryption. Network security specialist Bob Diachenko discovered […]
Citrix hacked, Yes, Citrix suffered a massive data breach and the company believes that the attackers may have stolen atleast 6 TB to 10 TB of data by compromise the Citrix internal systems. Citrix Systems, Inc.a well-known software company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service, and cloud computing technologies […]
Researchers discovered the 150GB volume of biggest and most comprehensive email unprotected MongoDB that leaked 800 Million Email data online that belongs to Verifications.io. The leaked email contains sensitive information including personally identifiable information (PII) and the complete data being available in public that can be accessed by anyone on the internet. This Database exactly […]
Experts explain why this combination of characters has been linked to multiple incidents of data breach According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a recent investigation revealed that the character combination ‘ji32k7au4a83’ is one of the most used passwords, but is also one of the most vulnerable. […]
When it comes to malware development and infection campaigns, it does not matter where the vulnerable computer systems are located. Malware in the wild are not limiting themselves to just infecting devices from a certain region or country, they don’t respect national borders once it is already on the public Internet. Sophos has emphasized that […]
All users of this platform have been affected by this incident The videogame company Armor Games admitted that all of its users have been affected by a recent massive data breach; according to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the compromised information is already on sale in some […]
Company officials report that unknown actors got access to data using credentials obtained in other incidents According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reports, Intuit, a financial software developer and creator of services like Mint and TurboTax, has been the victim of a credential stuffing attack. It […]
Hackers accessed personal data from more than 160 million users According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Dubsmash, the popular video app, suffered a data breach at the end of 2018. It is estimated that the incident affected about 162 million users, exposing information such as: User […]
A database that contains highly sensitive information of about 458,388 individuals located in Delhi exposed for public access without any password protection. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the publically exposed database name “GNCTD” that indexed by Shodan. The 4.1GB-sized MongoDB belongs to Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi and by analyzing contents Bob Diachenko […]
California proposed legislation if passed, would set stricter guidelines for when companies need to inform customers of a data breach. Attorney General Xavier Becerra and State Assembly member Marc Levine unveiled the new legislation at a press conference on Thursday. According to a report on CNN Business, companies would be required to notify California residents […]
The company realized that it had been hacked until it discovered its information on sale in dark web forums StreetEasy recently confirmed the hacking and data breach of nearly one million user accounts on the platform. According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the stolen information is […]
NCBP announced a security breach that impacts hundreds of restaurants, Retail, and Grocery point of sale systems. The security breach impacted 137 restaurants. According to North Country Business Products, Inc, following are the details exposed that include the cardholder’s name, credit card number, expiration date, and CVV. The company learned that there is suspicious activity in […]
About 100 students were affected by the incident Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report a vulnerability in one of Stanford University online systems that allows students to visualize their records gave one of the students the ability To see the grades of other students’ high school education. […]