Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2020
The forum of the popular Albion Online game was hacked

Albion Online game maker discloses a data breach, hackers gained access to the company forum database by exploiting a known vulnerability. Albion Online (AO) is a free medieval fantasy MMORPG developed by Sandbox Interactive, a studio based in Berlin, Germany A threat actor has breached the forum of Albion Online and stole usernames and password hashes from its database. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2020
Britain’s information commissioner fines British Airways for 2018 Hack

Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. In September 2018, British Airways suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 400,000 customers. The hackers potentially accessed the personal data of approximately 429,612 customers and staff. Exposed data included names, addresses, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2020
Breach at Dickey’s Barbecue Pit compromises 3 million Cards

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, the largest barbecue restaurant chain in the US, suffered a POS breach, card details for 3 Million customers were posted online. Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is a family-owned American barbecue restaurant chain, the company suffered a POS breach and card details of more than three million customers have been posted on the carding portal […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2020
Egregor ransomware gang leaked data alleged stolen from Ubisoft, Crytek

The Egregor ransomware gang has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the systems of the gaming firm Ubisoft. A previously unknown ransomware gang dubbed Egregor has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the internal network of another leading gaming firm, Ubisoft. A few days ago, the Egregor […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2020
Researchers found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey

Security experts from Cyble found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey, is it a case of cyber hacktivism or cyber espionage? Researchers from the US-based firm Cyble recently came across a post shared by an unknown threat actor that goes online with the moniker Spectre123, where he has allegedly leaked the sensitive documents of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2020
Carnival confirms data breach as a result of the August ransomware attack

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the august ransomware attack. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach as a result of the ransomware attack that took place in August. Ransomware operators have stolen the personal information of customers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2020
Data from Airlink International UAE leaked on multiple dark web forums

Cybersecurity researchers from Cyble have spotted a threat actor sharing leaked data of Airlink International UAE for free on two different platforms. Cybersecurity researchers from Cyble have found a threat actor sharing leaked data of Airlink International UAE for free on two platforms on the dark web. The availability of the data on the dark web could pose organizations to serious risk, threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2020
Food Delivery Service Chowbus hacked, more than 400K customer impacted

The popular Asian food delivery platform Chowbus has been hacked, attackers stole customer data and emailed victims as proof of the attack. Hackers have stolen customer data from the food delivery platform Chowbus and emailed victims to inform them of the data breach. The service is currently available in Australia, Canada and the United States, it has […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2020
Australian social news platform leaks 80,000 user records

Cybernews has found an exposed data bucket that belongs to the Australian news sharing platform Snewpit containing around 80,000 user records. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/australian-social-news-platform-leaks-80000-user-records/ To increase efforts to secure user data, Snewpit will be reviewing “all server logs and access control settings” to confirm that no unauthorized access took place and to ensure that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2020
Source Code of Windows XP, Server 2003 leaked

The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on bulletin board website 4chan. The source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on the bulletin board website 4chan. This is the first time that […]