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An organized network of Camgirl sites has reportedly exposed personal data of millions of sex workers and users who participated in sessions on those sites. Simply put: A bundle of databases was left exposed to the public without any authentication. Originally discovered by security researchers at Condition:Black; the exposed network belonged to Barcelona, Spain’s based […]
A few months back, we saw the personal data of over 188 million people leak due to an insecure MongoDB Database. Then in September 2019, we saw the data of almost every Ecuadorian leaked in a massive data breach. A similar incident has occurred now but with Russia. According to a report by Comparitech, more […]
Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 till April this year after being granted asylum initially. When companies like Facebook can suffer data breaches, it is a good idea for smaller firms to step up their security game. This […]
Another day, another privacy disaster hits Facebook users. To add insult to the already enraged privacy advocates, Facebook has yet again disappointed its user base. It has been revealed that 419 million phone numbers belonging to Facebook users have been exposed due to a breach in an online unsecured database. The database contained 133 million records […]
Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach. In 2019, more than 20 million unique passwords among other credentials were leaked and available online for sale. This fact represents only one year since the advent of the internet and over the years […]
Of late, we have seen a lot of Google Pixel 4 leaks and rumors and this rumor thread is bound to grow. Amidst this, Google has officially confirmed the design of its upcoming flagship and I am not sure how to react. According to a tweet by Google’s Twitter handle, it’s official that the forthcoming […]
The company claims it does not share user data with others but looks like it does. Another day, another data breach; this time an unprotected database has been discovered leaking personal and financial data of millions of Canadians. Identified by researchers at vpnMentor along with hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar; the database belonged to […]
The 24 GB database was hosted on a Microsoft cloud server. Another day, another data breach; this time researchers have discovered an unprotected cloud repository containing personal and financial information of more than 80 million US households. This incident reminds us of two similar breaches in which highly sensitive data of 200 million and 82 […]
The ride-hailing app database was hosted on an insecure MongoDB server. Another day, another data breach – This time, security researchers have identified a ride-hailing app exposing personal data of 1 to 2 million Iranian drivers, thanks to an insecure MongoDB database. The database (labeled named ‘doroshke-invoice-production) was discovered by Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko […]
The app is called WiFi Finder – connect to hotspots. WiFi Finder, a popular and widely downloaded hotspot finder app designed for Android devices has been identified to be exposing passwords of WiFi networks for over two million networks. The exposed database was identified by GDI Foundation member and security researcher Sanyam Jain. According to […]
Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in a readable format and asked users for their email’s passwords for “verification.” On 21st March, 2018, the social media giant Facebook admitted that it stored passwords of 600 million users including “tens of thousands” of passwords belonging to Instagram users in plain-text which were accessible to over 20,000 […]
VPN software programs of Palo Alto, Cisco, Pulse, and F5 don’t Store Session Cookies Securely- DHS. A warning has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the unreliable nature of Virtual Private Network (VPN) programmes from several well-known VPN service providers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Pulse, and F5. The problem described […]
The breach came after FBI-linked websites were hacked. Three websites belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Academy Association (FBINAA) were hacked apparently by three hackers after they managed to breach their security, steal and upload data online. Part of the uploaded content was dozens of documents containing personal information of federal agents […]
The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took place after Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno withdrew Assange’s asylum for “repeatedly […]
If you use the Internet, password managers should be a part of your online life as users are at high risk of cybercrime in this digital and technological era. Hackers are always looking for a way to access sensitive data of the vulnerable individual, and unfortunately, weak passwords are the greatest vulnerability into a person’s […]
Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it’s Facebook users. It’s just been a year since the Cambridge Analytics scandal made headlines the world in which Facebook failed to secure its users’ information. Now the cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s researchers have identified the presence of another unsecure Facebook database that has been publicly posted […]
We normally consider family locator app as a blessing because we are able to track our family members conveniently through them. But, what if your private data collected or shared on such an app gets misused by cybercriminals because the app fails to secure it properly? It would instantly become a nuisance…no? The same has […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report revealing that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) couldn’t protect the private and confidential information of about 2.3 million hurricane survivors. In 2017, residents of Harvey, Maria, Irma, and California wildfires and hurricanes were offered Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA), which is a […]
The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing investigation so far has revealed no sign that employees abused or accessed […]
Another day, another data breach; this time, Victor Gevers, a Dutch security researcher from GDI Foundation has discovered a publically exposed database containing a massive trove of highly sensitive data of millions of Chinese women. According to Gevers, the database which is open for anyone to access contains personal details of 1.8 million women from China […]
Verifications.io breach is one of the largest data breaches but the good news is that it does not involve passwords. Another day, another data breach; this time the email validation service Verifications.io has leaked a humongous database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 2 billion individuals around the world. Verifications.io breach – What happened It […]