Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 178 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2018
Data of 130 Million hotel chain guests offered for 8 BTC on Dark Web

A hacker is offering for sale the personal details of over 130 million hotel chain guests on a Chinese Dark Web forum. The news was reported by Bleeping computers, a hacker is selling the personal details of over 130 million hotel guests for 8 Bitcoin on a Chinese Dark Web forum. “The breach was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2018
Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers. Eir, the fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company of Ireland, has suffered a data breach this week. Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers have been exposed according to the telecommunications company. The root cause of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2018
The restaurant chain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen has suffered a payment card breach

The restaurant chain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen suffered a payment card breach, hackers hacked the company network between Nov. 3, 2017 and Jan. 2, 2018 Once again here we are to discuss of a data breach suffered by a restaurant chain this time the victim is Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen. The news has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
T-Mobile data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers

T-Mobile today announced It has suffered a security breach that May have exposed personal information of up to 2 million T-mobile customers. According to the telco giant, the incident affected its US servers on August 20, leaked information includes customers’ name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type (prepaid or postpaid). T-Mobile notified the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Crooks claim to have stolen 20k customer records from Superdrug cosmetics retailer

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. Hackers accessed customers’ names, addresses and in some cases […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 176 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      DNS Hijacking targets Brazilian financial institutions ·      […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2018
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
An Australian schoolboy hacked into Apple Servers and stole 90GB of secure files

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      A malware paralyzed TSMC plants where also […]