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Security researchers found an open Elasticsearch server that contains unique data sets of more than 1.2 billion users. The data found to associated with 2 different data enrichment companies. The data enrichment is a process of enhancing the data of the user profile by adding new data points of information. The elastic server containing the […]
Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection. The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some of the customers using its prepaid services. What happened? In a statement posted […]
A new measure against misuse of personal information involves severe penalties for executives of any company. According to data protection experts, the US Congress has proposed a new bill known as the “Mind Your Own Business Act”. As set forth in this project, senior executives of any company who engage in erroneous information management practices […]
IT security audit researchers at security firm Safety Detectives have revealed a massive data leak (up to 2 terabytes) hosted on an Elastic Server. The flaw affects around 3.5 million users of websites Pouringpounds.com and Cashkaro.com in India and the United Kingdom, whose data is already on sale on dark web. Both websites are operated […]
Privacy scandals involving large social media companies are becoming more frequent nowadays. This time, web application security specialists report that the phone numbers used for multi-factor authentication and email addresses linked to the Twitter users accounts were “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes. The alleged error was revealed on the company’s official blog. In their post […]
Data protection specialists report that an unidentified threat actor is auctioning off a database with records of more than 90 million Brazilian citizens on dark web forums. The bidder states that each registration is unique and 100% real, making it possible to make a detailed profile of some of the people affected for malicious purposes. […]
Any source of information about people can be exploited by large companies. Data protection specialists at two different research centers say smart TVs share sensitive user data with companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Netflix. The experts, from British and American universities, have looked at how a smart TV, considered an IoT device, collects […]
Due to the detection of an unauthorized access to the database that stores its customers’ information, and as a measure of preventing future cyberattacks, the web hosting company Hostinger forced a massive password reset of an important part of its 14 million users, digital forensics experts report. Through a statement, the Lithuania-based company mentioned: “An […]
Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people. According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier this week emailed them download links to 11GB of stolen […]
Facebook suffered a massive outage in its suite of apps yesterday morning; According to website security audit specialists, this flaw provided social network users with certain details about Facebook’s machine learning system for sorting all the users’ content. In addition to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services suffered several failures and interruptions, affecting content displayed, content […]
According to personal data protection specialists, the Indian authorities have requested the popular messaging service WhatsApp to digitally fingerprint messages sent through the platform without violating encryption, as this way messages would be traceable, which would facilitate some government intelligence. The Indian government believes that WhatsApp should have the ability to identify the source of […]
Information security audit specialists reported a data breach incident in the major clinical company Quest Diagnostics that occurred last Monday; according to the company, an unauthorized actor obtained access to the records (including medical and financial data) of nearly 12 million of the company’s clients. The news of the incident began to spread after Quest […]
A new incident involving large technology companies and the privacy of their users has been reported. According to website security specialists, Apple faces a class-action lawsuit for the illegal and intentional disclosure of iTunes users’ information with third parties. The plaintiffs claim that Apple has been sharing iTunes user data without their express consent; this […]
Over 540 million Facebook users personal records that include comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs exposed to the public Internet. All the data are collected and stored by Third-Party developers. Researchers from UpGuard found third-party Facebook app datasets, one from Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva and another one belongs to Facebook-integrated app “At the […]
The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside entity gained “unauthorized access” to its web application and accessed […]
By an oversight, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shared with a third party 2.3 million of records of natural disaster survivors, report authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, in conjunction with experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). FEMA accidentally shared personal details classified in twenty different categories; because of […]
Data processed by an online betting group are exposed; compromised files include more than 100 million of user records and their bets and earnings Dozens, even hundreds of reports about data security incidents that compromise the personal information of millions of people are presented daily. According to experts in network security and ethical hacking from […]
This warning message reached thousands of Australian citizens Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security have reported that a hacker managed to send a message to thousands of people after an emergency text messaging, email and phone calls service in Australia was compromised. The message, sent from the Early Warning […]
Users should only open the app for these services so that their information ends up in the hands of the social network According to reports of cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, various travel apps, such as TripAdvisor, Skyscanner or Yelp, have shared a large amount of personal information of their users […]
Cybercriminals obtain these records by compromising the systems of hospitals or academic institutions According to cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, several groups of cybercriminals are focused on stealing personal records of thousands of children, information stored by schools or children medical attention institutions, for the purpose of selling them in some […]
Over 500k students and workers have been affected by this incident Personal information belonging to more than 500k employees and students from the academic institutions of San Diego, California, could have been stolen by malicious actors, as reported by cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Through a statement, the San Diego School […]