data leak

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2022
Vodafone investigates claims of a data breach made by Lapsus$ gang

Vodafone is investigating a recently suffered cyberattack, after a ransomware gang Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen its source code. Vodafone announced to have launched an investigation after the Lapsus$ cybercrime group claimed to have stolen its source code. The Lapsus$ gang claims to have stolen approximately 200 GB of source code files, allegedly contained in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2022
Master decryption keys for Maze, Egregor, and Sekhmet ransomware leaked online

The master decryption keys for the Maze, Egregor, and Sekhmet ransomware operations were released last night on the BleepingComputer forums. The master decryption keys for the Maze, Egregor, and Sekhmet ransomware families were released on the BleepingComputer forums by the alleged malware developer. The Maze group was considered one of the most prominent ransomware operations […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2022
British Council exposed 144,000 files containing student details

Personal information belonging to British Council students was exposed online via an unsecured repository. The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It operates in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2022
SEGA Europe left AWS S3 bucket unsecured exposing data and infrastructure to attack

SEGA Europe inadvertently left users’ personal information publicly accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. SEGA Europe inadvertently left users’ personal information publicly accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.  At the end of the year, gaming giant SEGA Europe inadvertently left users’ personal information publicly accessible on Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, cybersecurity firm VPN […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2021
Logistics giant D.W. Morgan exposed 100 GB worth of clients’ data, including Fortune 500 Clients

The Website Planet security team discovered a data breach suffered by the multinational logistics giant D.W. Morgan. The Website Planet security team discovered an Amazon S3 bucket owned by logistics giant D.W. Morgan that was left unsecured online. The S3 bucket contained more than 100 GB of sensitive data relating to shipments and the company’s clients, including some Fortune 500 […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2021
Albania Prime Minister apologizes over the recent massive leak of government data

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama apologized for the massive leak of personal records from a government database of state. Albania’s prime minister this week apologized for the massive leak of personal records from a government database of state. Exposed records include the personal identity card numbers, employment and salary data of some 637,000 people. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2021
Three trivial bugs in Microsoft Teams Software remain unpatched

Researchers disclosed four vulnerabilities in the Teams business communication software, but Microsoft will not address three of them. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Positive Security discovered four vulnerabilities in the Teams business communication software that could allow accessing internal Microsoft services, spoofing the link preview, and, for Android users, leaking their IP address, and triggering a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2021
Microsoft Vancouver leaking website credentials via overlooked DS_STORE file

CyberNews researchers discovered a Desktop Services Store (DS_STORE) file left on a publicly accessible web server that belongs to Microsoft Vancouver. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/microsoft-vancouver-leaking-website-credentials-via-overlooked-ds-store-file/ The metadata stored on the file led the researchers to several WordPress database dumps, which contained multiple administrator usernames and email addresses, as well as the hashed password for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2021
Threat actors offer for sale data for 50 millions of Moscow drivers

Threat actors are offering for sale a database containing 50 million records belonging to Moscow drivers on a hacking forum for $800. Bad news for Russian drivers, threat actors are selling a database containing 50 million records belonging to Moscow drivers on a hacking forum for only $800. The threat actors claim to have obtained […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2021
Sky.com servers exposed via misconfiguration

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/news/sky-com-servers-exposed-via-misconfiguration/ CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain, containing what appear to be production-level database access credentials, as well as addresses to development endpoints. Sky, a subsidiary of Comcast, is Europe’s largest […]