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What We Need To Learn From The World’s Largest Data Leak?

Troy Hunt, a prolific cybersecurity researcher has probably assembled one of the largest data leak collection in the world at the time of this writing. A collection of aggregate massive leaks containing 773 million email addresses and around 21 million passwords. Dubbed ‘Collection #1’, when laid out in a spreadsheet, it will occupy 2,692,818,238 rows. […]

Phishing Attack on San Diego School Led to Data Leaked

A phishing attack led to the data breach, seems like the trend is not going to end any sooner. This time a school was attacked and the students’ social security numbers, addresses, and more were leaked by the hackers. The school in question is California’s San Diego Unified School District, the phishing attack has led […]

Atrium Health’s Databreach: 2.65 Million Patient Records Publicly Revealed

Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, which touted itself as ‘one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations’ has publicly disclosed that their system supplied by AccuDoc Solutions had a data breach between September 22 to 29, 2018 which exposed 2.65 million patient records to an unauthorized and unknown third party. The disclosure […]

MongoDB server exposes personal info on 700K Amex India customers

What could be more fateful than the fact that, an unsecured MongoDB server has exposed the personal data on 689,272 American Express India customers. Bob Diachenko, director of cyber risk research at Hacken – The researcher who discovered the server said in a blog post that the bulk of the data – more than 2.3 […]

Cathay Pacific Breach Exposes Gap in Hong Kong Laws: Experts

Experts point out that the recent data breach that had impacted Cathay Pacific exposes a gap in Hong Kong laws. The Hong Kong-based international airline had, on October 24, 2018, acknowledged a data breach that had impacted its computer system at least seven months before. A Cathay Pacific press release had stated, “Cathay Pacific announced […]

123,000 customer data exposed in two Thailand Banks Data Breach

Thailand’s two big banks are the newest victims of a data leak involving 123,000 customer records. This happened on the backdrop of Thailand’s push for more and more cashless transactions. Krungthai Bank (KTB) and Kasikornbank (KBank) have been penetrated that caused people to rethink the next monetary strategy to follow. Initial checks concluded that the […]

Auto Tracking Company Sever Misconfiguration Leaks Over a Half Million Personal Records Online

A New Discovered SVR Tracking Company Sever Repository Misconfiguration Leaks the Secret Information of vehicle recovery device and monitoring company SVR Tracking (stolen vehicle records) which Discovered from a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket. SVR Tracking Providing service enables lot owners to locate and recover their vehicles with live, real-time tracking and provides stop verification. […]