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GETTR, a pro-Trump social media platform, has been attacked twice since its launch on July 4th, 2021. GETTR is a Twitter-inspired social media platform. It was launched on July 4th, 2021, and is the brainchild of former US President Donald Trump’s ex-spokesman Jason Miller. On Tuesday, a hacker posted a database claiming that it contained […]
LinkedIn has not suffered data breach but the records being sold are collected through data scraping technique. Two months back, Hackread.com exclusively reported a staggering data leak compiled as a result of data scraping involving LinkedIn where threat actors posted 500 million and over 800 million LinkedIn user profiles up for sale on a hacker […]
The total size of the exposed data was 86.15 GB with 814,709,344 total records from the past 3 years. In recent news, the IT security researchers at Website Planet found an unsecured database owned by Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar DreamHost. The database belonged to DreamHost’s DreamPress managed WordPress hosting that […]
It took Wegmans a month to respond and secure its data after the Website Planet Security Team’s alerted the company about the issue. In recent news, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., a private US supermarket chain with 106 stores across the country, exposed sensitive credentials and through a misconfigured Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Server. The total […]
Hackread.com informed Patari of the data breach almost a week ago yet we did not receive any response whatsoever. Patari or Patari.pk, a Pakistani music streaming site has suffered a data breach in which its database containing personal data and login credentials of over 257,000 registered users has been leaked on English and Russian language […]
Bergen Logistics, a New Jersey-based company exposed its database back in December 2020 but Lolz when alerted about the incident. Recently, the IT security researchers at Website Planet uncovered an exposed database belonging to Bergen Logistics that stored 467,979 records all relevant to their shipments and customers. This means that any clients that conducted business […]
The company was informed about the exposed data in December 2020 but it only responded and secured the data in March 2021. FastTrack Reflex Recruitment firm recently joined the ranks of other companies that have been affected by data leaks due to misconfigured AWS S3 buckets. This data breach majorly affected the applicants whose CVs […]
The hacker behind the data leak claims they downloaded the Raychat app data when the company exposed its entire database online between December 2020 to January 2021. Raychat app (Raychat.io), a popular Iranian social and business messaging platform has apparently suffered a data breach in which personal data and records of over 150 million users […]
The latest leak by the Babuk ransomware gang contains 26GB worth of records. Last month, Hackread.com reported that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) had become a victim of a ransomware attack. The government agency revealed that the Babuk Locker gang stole nearly 250 GB of unencrypted files from the department’s networks. On the […]
The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users’ Facebook accounts passwords. For the last couple of years, a Facebook database containing the personal and contact information of more than 500 million users kept popping up on several hacker forums where threat actors offered the data for $30,000. Hackread.com exclusively reported […]
REvil ransomware gang claims to be negotiating with 3rd-parties to sell the alleged stolen data. The infamous REvil ransomware gang (also known as Sodinokibi) is back in action and this time its alleged victim is Quanta Computer Inc., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. In a post published by the REvil […]
OGUsers was also hacked in May 2019, April 2020, and December 2020. Another day, another data breach hits OGUsers, a cybercrime forum, and marketplace for stolen credentials and financial data. Yes, OGUsers has suffered another data breach in which its entire database has been dumped on a rival hacking forum. It is worth noting that […]
Recently, there has been a data breach from a telemarketing company called CallX which sells marketing services and software to enterprise clients, allowing businesses to track the performance of their media buying and telemarketing marketing operations. The data breach was discovered by vpnMentor’s Research team led by Noam Rotem. According to their report, Over […]
COVID-19 testing service in the State of Utah stored passport scans and other highly personal data on unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. A COVID-19 testing service in Utah ran by Premier Diagnostics exposed sensitive information of more than 50,000 people by storing data on two unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. What data was exposed The information included […]
The exposed database was being updated in realtime with new logs while 1.48 million robocall logs were accessed by researchers initially. The WebsitePlanet research team alongside Jeremiah Fowler, an IT security researcher, discovered an insecure database that had no password protection and contained a large number of phone call records as well as VOIP (Voice […]
On April 22nd, 2021, a hacker going by the online handle of Pompompurin leaked a database containing personal and sensitive household data of over 250 million (250,807,711) American citizens and residents. As seen by Hackread.com, the database was leaked on a prominent hacker forum and comprises 263 GB worth of records including 1,255 CSV subfiles […]
The IT security researchers at vpnMentor have discovered a trove of insecure data hosting on a company based in the United States. Named TrueDialog, the firm provides a range of texting solutions to businesses in the USA and as such had a database containing confidential data of its customers. The data was identified to be […]
Palo Alto Networks, the renowned cyber security firm, has suffered an unusual data breach in which personal details of not just present but former employees also had their data breached. What made things a lot more embarrassing for the Santa Clara, California-based firm is that the data (which included employees’ Social Security Numbers too) has […]
The database was available for anyone to access without a password. Recently on October 16, 2019, a team of two dark web researchers named Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a database containing a massive trove of personal records of more than 1.2 billion people. While they were looking for exposures through BinaryEdge and Shodan, they stumbled […]
Over the past few months, we’ve come across data breaches that are bad for anyone but the bad guys themselves. But just once in a while, we can sit back and rejoice on a breach happening. One such moment occurred a few days ago when membership data from a Pro-Nazi site named Iron March was […]
Data breaches and hacks are now a common part of our day-to-day lives and unless you’re a cybersecurity professional or your personal data is at risk, you don’t really care if a new vulnerability has been exposed. As the Federal Trade Commission notes, over five hundred million users of the Marriott hotel chain had their […]