Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2018
Twitter is urging all of its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text on internal systems. Twitter is urging its users to immediately change their passwords after a glitch caused some of them to be stored in plain text. We are sharing this information to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2018
Australia’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, disclosed a major security incident that exposed financial records for almost 20 million customers. According to the Commonwealth Bank representatives, two magnetic data tapes were lost, both stored customers’ records, including names, addresses, account numbers and transaction details from 2000 to 2016. According to the broadcaster ABC, the data were supposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2018
GitHub, world’s leading software development platform, forced password reset for some users after the discovery of a problem that caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. GitHub urged some users to reset their passwords after a problem caused internal logs to record passwords in plain text. Some users published on Twitter the communication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2018
Security experts at Kromtech discovered a MongoDB exposed personal details of 25,000 users tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency. Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Kromtech have discovered a MongoDB database containing the personal details of over 25,000 Bezop (BEZ) cryptocurrency users. There are 1384 cryptocurrencies as of Jan 2018. One of them had a database of 25K active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2018
An IT professional has discovered that the US healthcare company Health Stream left exposed online contact information for roughly 10,000 medics. The IT expert Brian Wethern has discovered that the US healthcare company Health Stream left exposed online a database containing contact information for roughly 10,000 medics. Wethern reported his discovery to Health Stream ten days ago, he explained that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2018
SunTrust Banks Inc announced it discovered that a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share it a criminal organization. A former employee at the SunTrust Bank may have stolen data on 1.5 million clients, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and account balances. “The company became aware of potential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2018
The private intelligence agency LocalBlox has left unsecured online an AWS bucket containing 48 million records that were also harvested from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Oops … another data breach made the headlines and once again it was discovered by data leak hunters at Upguard. The private intelligence agency LocalBlox has left unsecured online an AWS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2018
TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand suffered a data leak, 46000 people’s data store on an AWS bucked were left on accessible online, including driving licenses and passports. Let’s speak about a new data breach, this time the victim is TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand. The operator exposed online […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach, the authorities could assign civil penalties against the company if it will fail to share incident data with FTC. Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach. “Uber Technologies, […]
