Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2023
Credential Stuffing attack on Chick-fil-A impacted +71K users

American fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A reported that the accounts of over 71K users were compromised as a result of a credential stuffing campaign. The American fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A notified over 71K users that their accounts have been compromised in a credential stuffing campaign that lasted at least two months. Upon discovering the attack, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2023
Play Ransomware gang has begun to leak data stolen from City of Oakland

The Play ransomware gang has finally begun to leak the data stolen from the City of Oakland in a recent attack. The Play ransomware gang has begun to leak data they have stolen from the City of Oakland (California) in a recent cyberattack. Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2023
Retailer WH Smith discloses data breach after a cyberattack

Retailer WH Smith disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack, threat actors had access to access company data. Retailer WH Smith revealed that threat actors have breached its infrastructure and had access to the data of about 12,500 current and former employees. The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident with the help […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2023
GunAuction site was hacked and data of 565k accounts were exposed

Hackers compromised the website GunAuction.com, a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, and stole users’ data. Hackers have compromised GunAuction.com, a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, TechCrunch reported. The attackers have stolen sensitive personal data from more than 550,000 users. Compromised customers’ data include full names, home addresses, email […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2023
Satellite TV giant Dish admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack

Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. Satellite TV giant Dish Network finally admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack. The American satellite broadcast provider went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2023
LastPass: hackers breached the computer of a DevOps engineer in a second attack

Threat actors hacked the home computer of a DevOp engineer, they installed a keylogger as part of a sophisticated cyber attack. Password management software firm LastPass disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach. Then the attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2023
Threat actors leak Activision employee data on hacking forum

Data allegedly stolen from the American gaming giant Activision in December security breach were leaked on a cybercrime forum. A threat actor leaked on the Breached hacking forum the data allegedly stolen from the gaming giant Activision in December 2022. The threat actors claim to have obtained 19,444 unique records from an Activision Azure database […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2023
News Corp says hackers first breached its systems between Feb 2020 and Jan 2022

The investigation conducted by News Corporation (News Corp) revealed that attackers remained on its network for two years. In February 2022, the American media and publishing giant News Corp revealed it was the victim of a cyber attack from an advanced persistent threat actor that took place in January 2022. The attackers compromised one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2023
Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Portuguese municipal water utility Aguas do Porto

The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company. The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company, and is threatening to leak the stolen data. Aguas do Porto is a municipal water utility company that manages the full […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2023
Hackers disclose Atlassian data after the theft of an employee’s credentials

Atlassian discloses a data leak that was caused by the theft of employee credentials which was used to steal data from a third-party vendor. A group of hackers called SiegedSec recently published on its Telegram channel a JSON file containing data belonging to thousands of Atlassian employees and floor plans for two of the company’s […]