Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2021
T-Mobile customers were hit with SIM swapping attacks

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Crooks conduct SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2021
Data Breach: Turkish legal advising company exposed over 15,000 clients

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. The server contained 55,000 court papers regarding over 15,000 legal cases, which affected hundreds of thousands of people. What’s Going On? Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2021
NurseryCam daycare cam service shut down after security breach

Daycare camera product NurseryCam was hacked last week, the company was forced to shut down its IoT camera service. On Friday, The Register become aware of the compromise of the NurseryCam network. NurseryCam is produced by the companies FootfallCam Ltd and Meta Technologies Ltd. In response to the incident, the company shut down its IoT […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2021
Sequoia Capital Venture Capital firm discloses a data breach

Sequoia Capital, one of the most prominent venture capital firms, told its investors that an unauthorized third party had access to their information. Sequoia Capital, one of the most prominent venture capital firms that focus on the technology industry, discloses a data breach. The company informed its investors that an unauthorized third party had access to their […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
Yandex security team caught admin selling access to users’ inboxes

Russian internet and search company Yandex discloses a data breach, a system administrator was selling access to thousands of user mailboxes. Russian search engine and internet provider Yandex discloses a data breach, the company revealed that one of its system administrators was caught selling access to 4,887 user email accounts. The security incident was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2021
Anti-malware firm Emsisoft accidentally exposes internal DB

Antivirus firm Emsisoft discloses a data breach, a third-party had access to a publicly exposed database containing technical logs. The anti-malware solutions provider Emsisoft disclosed last week a data breach. The company revealed that a third-party had accessed a publicly exposed database containing technical logs. The root cause of the incident was a misconfiguration of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2021
COMB breach: 3.2B email and password pairs leaked online

The Largest compilation of emails and passwords (COMB), more than 3.2 billion login credentials, has been leaked on a popular hacking forum. More than 3.2 billion unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords have been leaked on a popular hacking forum, the collection aggregates data from past leaks, such as Netflix, LinkedIn, Exploit.in, Bitcoin, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2021
Web developers SitePoint discloses a data breach

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email. Threat actors offered for sale an archive containing […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2021
Hackers accessed Stormshield data, including source code of ANSSI certified products

The provider of network security products Stormshield discloses data breach, threat actors stole information on some of its clients. Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. Stormshield is a French publisher of software specialized in computer security, its products are certified […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2021
Hackers stole personnel records of software developer Wind River

The global leader of embedded system software Wind River Systems discloses a data breach that resulted in the theft of customers’ personal information. Wind River Systems, a global leader in delivering software for smart connected systems, discloses a data breach. The company claims its technology is found in more than 2 billion products, it develops […]