Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
A thief stole hard drives containing Facebook payroll data from a car

Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 244

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool US authorities charged Dridex gang members for stealing over $100 Million A bug in the decryptor for the Ryuk ransomware could cause data loss China 3-5-2 directive orders […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2019
Rooster Teeth Productions suffered a payment card breach

Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach that exposed payment card information from shoppers on the company’s online store. The popular production company Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach, hackers have stolen credit card and other payment data from users that made purchases on the company’s online store. Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2019
Unsecured AWS bucket exposes over 750,000 birth certificate applications

A massive data leak made the headlines, over 750,000 birth certificate applications have been exposed online due to an unsecured AWS bucket. Penetration testing firm Fidus Information Security discovered over 752,000 birth certificate applications that have been exposed online due to an unsecured AWS bucket.  The huge trove of personal data has been exposed online by […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 243

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web Google warned 12K+ users targeted by state-sponsored hackers Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil hacked Clop Ransomware attempts to disable Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2019
TrueDialog database leaked online tens of millions of SMS text messages

Millions of SMS messages have been leaked by a database run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered a database belonging to the US communications company, TrueDialog that was leaking millions of SMS messages. Most of the SMS included in the database were sent by […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2019
Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web

The online music streaming service Mixcloud was recently breached by a hacker that is attempting to sell stolen user data a dark web marketplace. On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2019
Adobe revealed that the Magento Marketplace was hacked

Adobe discloses security breach impacting Magento Marketplace users Adobe discloses a security breach that affected the users of the Magento marketplace website, the incident was discovered last week. Adobe disclosed a security breach that affected the users of the Magento Marketplace portal, the security team discovered the incident on November 21. The Magento Marketplace is […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 241

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Experts found undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365 Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season Experts report […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2019
Catch Hospitality Group discloses PoS malware infection at its restaurants

The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain.The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain. Catch Hospitality Group announced that a PoS malware has infected its payment […]