Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2020
UK printing company Doxzoo exposed US and UK military docs

UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered 343GB worth of files belonging to the printing company Doxzoo that were exposed on an AWS server. The researchers reported their discovery to the company on January 26, but it never […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2020
Corporate Finance firms leak 500K+ legal and financial documents online

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. “Whatever the intended purpose of this database was, over 500,000 highly sensitive and private […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2020
Aerial Direct, the O2’s largest UK partner suffered a data breach

Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct, one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. Hackers have stolen the data of O2 customers from a database operated by Aerial Direct, which is O2’s largest direct business partner in the UK and has more than 130,000 customers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2020
Open Exchange Rates discloses a security breach

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Open Exchange […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2020
Travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses data breach

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. The company is informing customers of the incident, a third-party gained unauthorized access […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2020
Virgin Media disclose data breach, over 900,000 Customers impacted

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers). The company reported unauthorized access, on at least one occasion, to a misconfigured and unsecured marketing […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2020
Hackers gained access to T-Mobile customers and employee personal info

New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. The wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor. A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2020
A bug in the Walgreens mobile app leaked customers’ messages

Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. The mobile app allows users to refill prescriptions by scanning barcode, manage medications with Pill Reminder, set Rx alerts for refills […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2020
49 million unique email addresses of Straffic Marketing firm exposed online

The Israeli marketing firm Straffic accidentally exposed 49 million unique email addresses stored in an Elasticsearch database. The Israeli marketing firm Straffic exposed 49 million unique email addresses due to mishandled credentials for an Elasticsearch database. The credentials for the company archive were stored in plain text on an unprotected web server. Straffic notified the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 29, 2020
Sodinokibi Ransomware gang threatens to disclose data from Kenneth Cole fashion firm

Not only Maze ransomware gang, the operators behind Sodinokibi Ransomware allegedly leaked the data of Kenneth Cole Productions. The operators behind Sodinokibi Ransomware have published the download links to archives containing data allegedly stolen from the US firm Kenneth Cole Productions. The news was first reported by the Under the Breach research group. Sodinokibi (aka REvil) is […]