Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2022
CommonSpirit Health confirmed that the October security breach resulted in the exposure of the personal data of 623,774 patients. In early October, Common Spirit, one of the largest hospital chains in the US, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that caused severe inconvenience to the facilities and to patients. The security breach led to delayed surgeries, hold-ups […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2022
Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly. Here are three of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2022
LastPass disclosed a new security breach, threat actors had access to its cloud storage using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. Password management solution LastPass disclosed a new security breach, the attackers had access to a third-party cloud storage service using information stolen in the August 2022 breach. The impacted cloud storage service is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2022
CyberNews experts discovered that ENC Security, a Netherlands software company, had been leaking critical business data since May 2021. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/encsecurity-leaked-sensitive-data/ When you buy a Sony, Lexar, or Sandisk USB key or any other storage device, it comes with an encryption solution to keep your data safe. The software is developed by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2022
Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook’s users’ data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for the data leak suffered by Facebook in 2021 that exposed the data belonging to millions of Facebook users. The Data Protection Commission is also imposing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2022
The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2022
Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. Original post published by Cybernews: https://cybernews.com/news/whatsapp-data-leak/ On November 16, an actor posted an ad on a well-known hacking community forum, claiming they were selling a 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp user mobile numbers. The dataset […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2022
The Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang started leaking the information allegedly stolen from the global high-tech company Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor (0x_dump) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2022
Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million current and former customers were exposed as a result of a ransomware attack. Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M of current and former customers were exposed as a result of a recent ransomware attack. Medibank is one of the […]
