Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2018
Panera Bread left millions of customer records exposed online for months

The website belonging to the Panera Bread restaurant chain, Panerabread.com, exposed personal information in plain text for months. The company has more than 2,100 retail locations in the United States and Canada, its customers could order food online for pickup in stores or for delivery. Panera Bread exposed the data at least for eight months after […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018
Grindr shared people’ HIV status with other companies

An analysis conducted by the Norwegian research nonprofit SINTEF revealed that the popular Grindr gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. Grindr gay-dating app made the headlines again, a few days ago an NBC report revealed that the app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could have exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2018
Fin7 hackers stole 5 Million payment card data from Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor Stores

FIN7 hackers stole credit and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased goods at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. A new data breach made the headlines, the victim is Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. According to the parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), the security breach […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018
Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users’ private data, messages, locations

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018
Under Armour data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal users

Under Armour became aware of a potential security breach on March 25, the company said an unauthorized party had accessed MyFitnessPal user data. Under Armour learned of the data breach on March 25,  it promptly reported the hack to law enforcement and hired security consultants to investigate the incident. Attackers hacked the MyFitnessPal application that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2018
The City of San Diego is suing the Experian credit agency for 2013 security breach

According to the lawsuit filed by San Diego city attorney Mara Elliott the Experian credit agency never notified the 2013 security breach to the affected consumers as required under California law. The City of San Diego, California is suing the Experian credit agency for the security breach that the company suffered in 2013. “San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott has filed […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Expedia-owned travel website Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in data breach

Orbitz, the travel website owned by Expedia announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a security breach that affected hundreds of thousands of users. Orbitz.com has millions of users, it was acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $1.6 billion. Orbitz confirmed that attackers gained access to a legacy platform between October 1 and December 22, 2017, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Frost Bank announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images

On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks. Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images. The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered an unauthorized access to its […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018
The Book : Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web

My new book, titled ‘Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web’ is available online, enjoy it. It’s a pleasure and an honor for me to announce the availability of my book “Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web“ Kindle Edition — Paper Copy What is the Deep Web and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018
Unsecured AWS S3 bucket managed by Walmart jewelry partner exposes data of 1.3M customers

An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, managed by a Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company Inc, left personal and contact information of 1.3 million customers exposed to the public internet. A new case of an Amazon S3 bucket left open online, this time personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers of Walmart jewelry partner MBM Company have been […]