Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2020
US OCC imposed an $80 Million fine to Capital One for 2019 hack

US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over 2019 data breach. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has imposed an $80 million fine to the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp over 2019 data breach. Capital One, one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2020
Did Maze ransomware operators steal 10 GB of data from Canon?

An internal memo confirms that the prolonged outage suffered by Canon last week was caused by a ransomware infection, Maze operators took credit for it. According to an internal memo obtained by ZDNet, the recent outage of Canon was caused by a ransomware attack, while Maze ransomware operators are taking the credit for the incident. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2020
Intel investigates security breach after the leak of 20GB of internal documents

Intel is investigating reports of an alleged hack that resulted in the theft and leak of 20GB of data coming from the chip giant. Intel is investigating reports that an alleged hacker has leaked 20GB of exfiltrated from its systems. The stolen data includes source code and developer documents and tools, some documents are labeled […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2020
UberEats data leaked on the dark web

Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble have discovered user records of American online food ordering and delivery platform UberEats on DarkWeb. Another day, another data breach made the headlines, this time the alleged victim is UberEATS. UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. During the process […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2020
Reading the 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report

2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report: the global total cost of a data breach averaged $3.86 million in 2020, down about 1.5% from the 2019 study. Every year, I write about the annual report published by the Ponemon Institute on the cost of a data breach, it is a very interesting study that explores the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2020
Havenly discloses data breach, 1.3M accounts available online

Havenly, a Denver-Based company, that realized an interior designer marketplace has disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3 million users. The US-based interior design web site Havenly has disclosed a data breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum. Last week, BleepingComputer reported that ShinyHunterswas […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2020
IndieFlix streaming service leaves thousands of confidential agreements, filmmaker SSNs, videos exposed on public server

The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket on a publicly accessible Amazon Simple Storage (S3) server containing confidential data belonging to IndieFlix. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/indieflix-leaks-thousands-of-filmmaker-ssns-confidential-agreements-videos/ IndieFlix is a US-based entertainment company offering a subscription-based online video streaming service that mainly specializes in independent titles, including feature films, shorts, and documentaries. The data […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
ShinyHunters leaked over 386 million user records from 18 companies

ShinyHunters, a trusted threat actor, is offering on a hacker forum the databases stolen from eighteen companies, over 386 million user records available online. The known threat actor ShinyHunters has begun leaking for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum. A couple of days ago, the popular digital banking app Dave.com disclosed a security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Nefilim ransomware operators leaked data alleged stolen from the Dussmann group

Cyble researchers reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider. The Dussmann Group has over 64,500 employees in 22 countries, it is one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2020
Records for 7.5 million users of the digital banking app Dave leaked online

Digital banking app Dave.com discloses a security breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters leaked 7 million user records on a crime forum. The popular digital banking app Dave.com discloses a security breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters leaked 7,516,625 user records on a crime forum. According to ZDNet, the security breach originated on the network […]