Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2023
American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4 million members impacted

The American Bar Association (ABA) disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to older credentials for 1,466,000 members. The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA has 166,000 members as of 2022. The attackers may have […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2023
Multinational ICICI Bank leaks passports and credit card numbers

ICICI Bank leaked millions of records with sensitive data, including financial information and personal documents of the bank’s clients. In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security. However, despite the critical status of bank infrastructure on the national […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2023
Volvo retailer leaks sensitive files

The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. Volvo, a Swedish luxury vehicle manufacturer with over 95,000 employees and sales of nearly 700,000 vehicles annually, is a highly attractive target for criminals since the company caters to a wealthy clientele. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2023
Kodi discloses data breach after its forum was compromised

Open-source media player software provider Kodi discloses a data breach after threat actors stole its MyBB forum database. Kodi has disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen the company’s MyBB forum database that contained data for over 400K users and private messages. The threat actors also attempted to sell the stolen data on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2023
Hyundai suffered a data breach that impacted customers in France and Italy

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. Threat actors had access to the email addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers, and vehicle chassis numbers […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2023
Yum! Brands, the owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, discloses data breach

Yum! Brands, the company that owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands, disclosed a data breach after the January ransomware attack. On January 13, 2023, Yum! Brands suffered a cyberattack that forced the company to take its systems offline closing roughly 300 restaurants in the UK for one day. Now the company, which owns the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2023
Samsung employees unwittingly leaked company secret data by using ChatGPT

Samsung employees have unwittingly leaked top secret data by providing them to the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. Samsung employees have shared internal documents, including meeting notes and source code, with the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. ChatGPT uses data provided by the users to train itself and build its experience, with the risk that this data […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2023
MSI confirms security breach after Money Message ransomware attack

Multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International) confirms security breach after Money Message ransomware gang claimed the hack. This week the ransomware gang Money Message announced to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2023
Money Message ransomware group claims to have hacked IT giant MSI

Ransomware gang Money Message claims to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). Ransomware gang Money Message announced to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. MSI is headquartered in Taipei, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2023
OCR Labs exposes its systems, jeopardizing major banking clients

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. The Cybernews research team discovered a misconfiguration in the OCR Labs system that exposed sensitive data. The company is a leading provider of digital ID verification tools, with its IDkit tool being used […]