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Privacy of Swedish citizens is at risk as a massive trove of data belonging to Swedish Transport Agency (STA) (Transportstyrelsen) was mistakenly uploaded on a cloud server. The data contained personal and vehicle information of almost every citizen in the country including the military and police officials. According to Swedish Newspaper report, the breach took […]
WikiLeaks is back with yet another batch of Vault 7 related documents detailing the CIA’s (Central Intelligence Agency) hacking tools and programs targeting unsuspected users worldwide for large-scale cyber espionage. The latest leak exposes “Highrise,” a malware disguised as an app called TideCheck employed by CIA to target Android devices running on versions 4.0 and 4.3 – WikiLeaks has described the app as […]
It is probably the first time that the news regarding a corruption case surrounding Pakistani government involves a Microsoft font and the world-renowned encyclopedia website Wikipedia as the corruption scandal escalates to new heights threatening the country’s government. The Panama leaks As many of you may know, earlier in 2016, a hoard of documents dubbed […]
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) has announced that the company is investigating an incident in which an unprotected database of more than 3 million registered users was discovered by a Bob Dyachenko of cyber security firm Kromtech. According to Dyachenko, the database was discovered unprotected on Amazon Web Services S3 (AWS) containing personal details of users including […]
A couple of days ago reports came in that The Automobile Association (The AA), a British motoring association suffered a massive data breach. As a result, 13GB of its highly sensitive customer and financial data was exposed online. The AA denied that the leaked data contained any sensitive information but Scott Helme, a cyber-security researcher who […]
It looks like Microsoft is in trouble again. This time not for its critical vulnerabilities in Windows operating system but for a massive data leak in which 32TB of highly sensitive Windows 10 related data has been dumped online. According to a report from TheRegister, it is believed that the data was stolen from Microsoft’s in-house […]
As part of the Vault 7 series, WikiLeaks released a set of documents that is essentially a user manual for a set of hacking tools belonging to the CIA. The hacking tools are capable of infecting air-gapped PCs via USB drives and are collectively named as the Brutal Kangaroo. Brutal Kangaroo Brutal Kangaroo is not […]
In April this year, DarkOverLord a Dark Web hacking group stole and held season 5 of popular TV show Orange Is the New Black (which was yet-to-be-released at that time ) to ransom but ended up leaking it on the Internet after failed negotiations with Netflix and Hollywood-based Larson Studios. Now, details have emerged highlighting […]
A marketing firm that was employed by the Republican National Committee accidentally exposed data belonging to 200 million US citizens. That is around 62% of the entire population of the US. The exposed data includes information like home addresses, political views, phone numbers and even birthdays. All of it is available publicly – The said data was […]
The whistleblowing site WikiLeaks is back with yet another Vault 7 series related document. This one is called “Cherry Blossom” program which gives a glance at the wireless hacking capabilities of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Cherry Blossom project according to the leaked documents was allegedly developed and implemented by the CIA with the […]
From the beginning, hacking were all about taking over servers and stealing data but for the last couple of years the trend has changed and hackers have been targeting giants like Hollywood and TV industry. Now, the DarkOverLord, a famous hacking group that had been responsible for leaking the first ten episodes of season 5 […]
Accidents happen to everyone but according to a recent report, this one is a pretty big one. Apparently, some of the confidential data related to the US military project was simply left completely unprotected on a server belonging to Amazon. The data included over 60,000 files with some of the very sensitive info publicly accessible […]
The Kaunas Lithuania-based Grozio Chirurgija clinics were recently hacked by a group called Tsar Team who leaked thousands of private photos of plastic surgery patients including naked photos of celebrities. What did the photos include? According to authorities, around 25,000 photos were leaked that included personal information. Also, the leak included 1,500 naked photos of Brits. Essentially, […]
Shadow Brokers, the group that is now famously known for leaking the NSA hacking tools, Eternal Blue and Double Pulsar that infected computers worldwide with the WannaCry ransomware attack, is now announcing a new dump service through which, it will leak additional exploits for monthly subscriptions. The new dump service Soon after the WannaCry attack […]
Amidst the recent series of attacks launched on various computers through the WannaCry Malware, a relatively minor incident occurred in which Spotify took the hit by having its user’s credentials dumped on a public website for everyone to see. The Leak Boat The hacker group, Leak Boat, has claimed responsibility for publishing the usernames and […]
In a recent development, Swedish lawmakers have dropped the investigations against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, which alleged him of rape back in August 2010. The decision will set free Assange after a 7-year legal stand-off. In a statement, the Prosecutors’ Office said that: “Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected […]
Earlier this week, private photos and video clip of the famous WWE Divas Lisa Marie Varon known by her WWE name Victoria and Charlotte Flair were leaked online the internet. The photos showed Charlotte taking selfies of herself in front of the mirror using her iPhone while in Lisa’s case a video clip in her […]
The personal identifiable information of people in the wrong hands could cause a major havoc, and this could happen pretty soon in India. According to the reports, the government sites supposed to protect the user data are instead, leaking it! Names, addresses, date of birth, PAN card details, Aadhaar card numbers and other relevant details […]
Researchers at MacKeeper Security have identified a “misconfigured device,” which was available for public access last week. It was nothing short of a treasure trove of classified data because it contained sensitive personal/official information, backup data and confidential documents belonging to the US Air Force. It has been learned that the device was owned by […]
Brian Krebs, a cyber-security journalist has reported that the renowned credit and debit card payment services facilitator firm Verifone has undergone an internal computer network breach. According to Krebs’ analysis, the breach although happened last year the company remained oblivious about it until January 2017. Krebs explained that after receiving information about the breach, Verifone […]
vBulletin (vB) is an internet forum software widely used by website owners. Lately, there has been a critical vulnerability in the software’s old versions allowing hackers to breach any forum who hasn’t been updated to the latest version. Recently, a hacker going by the online handle of “CrimeAgency” on Twitter is claiming to have hacked […]