Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2018
Data breach of the Aadhaar biometric system poses a serious risk for 1 Billion Indian residents

The Tribune announced to have “purchased” a service that provided it an unrestricted access to the residents’ records in the Aadhaar system. According to The Tribune, hackers have breached the Unique Identification Authority of India’s Aadhaar biometric system and gained access to personally identifiable information (i.e. names, addresses, phone numbers) of more than 1 billion […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
247,000 DHS current and former federal employees affected by a privacy incident

A privacy incident suffered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exposed data related to 247,167 current and former federal employees. A data breach suffered by the Department of Homeland Security exposed data related to 247,167 current and former federal employees that were employed by the Agency in 2014. The data breach affected a database […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Anonymous Italia hacked speed camera database and took over the police systems in Correggio

Anonymous Italy hacked and deleted the entire speed camera database and took over the police email and database system in Correggio. Last week, Anonymous hacked a Speed Camera Database in Italy, the hacktivists took control of a local police computer system in Correggio, Italy and erased the entire archive containing speed camera tickets. According to Gazzetta di Reggio, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2018
Forever 21 confirms Payment Card Breach and provides further info on the incident

FOREVER 21 confirmed the presence of a malware at some point of sale (POS) systems in stores across the US. On November 2017, the US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it has suffered a security breach, the company now confirmed that hackers stole payment card data from its locations throughout the country for several months during 2017. Even if […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach

The popular expert Troy Hunt notified the Ancestry.com security team of an unsecured file on a RootsWeb server containing “email addresses/username and password combinations as well as usernames from a RootsWeb.com server”. When you think of personal security questions, you might think of your mother’s surname or other family information that normally isn’t shared — […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2017
Nissan Finance Canada hacked, 1.13 million customers may have been exposed

Nissan Finance Canada announced on Thursday that the personal information of 1.13 million customers may have been exposed as a result of a data breach. Nissan Finance Canada has been hacked, personal information of 1.13 million customers may have been exposed as a result of a data breach discovered by the company on December 11 (The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2017
A collection of 1.4 Billion Plain-Text leaked credentials is available online

A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2017
31 Million of client records belonging to the virtual keyboard app AI.type leaked online

Another day, another clamorous data breach, this time let’s discuss a data breach that exposes personal data collected by the Keyboard App AI.type. This story reminds us that every time we download an app we are enlarging our surface of attack, in the majority of cases we are not aware of exact amount of data they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2017
Hacked password service Leakbase shuts down, someone suspects it was associated to the Hansa seizure

LeakBase, an online service that provided paid access to leaked credentials, was shut down over the weekend, what has happened? LeakBase, an online service that provided paid access to leaked credentials, was shut down over the weekend and started redirecting to the data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned. We understand many of you may have lost some […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2017
PayPal-owned company TIO Networks data breach affects 1.6 million customers

PayPal confirmed that one of the companies it owns, TIO Networks, suffered a security breach, that affected 1.6 million customers. PayPal confirmed that one of the companies it owns, TIO Networks, suffered a security breach, hackers have accessed servers that stored information for 1.6 million customers. The company TIO Networks was recently acquired by PayPal for […]