Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2019
Buca di Beppo, Planet Hollywood and other restaurants owned by Earl Enterprises hit by card breach

Last week, Earl Enterprises admitted having suffered a payment card data breach from tens of its restaurants over a period of 10 months. Earl Enterprises admitted that hackers have stolen payment card data from tens of its restaurants over a period of 10 months. Restaurants at Buca di Beppo, Earl of Sandwich, Planet Hollywood, Chicken […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 207 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors Malware Static Analysis Microsoft Defender APT now protects also macOS WordPress Social Warfare plugin zero-day exploited in […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2019
Millions of Toyota customer records exposed in data breach

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of millions of customers in Japan. The week closes with the news of a data breach suffered by Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) sales subsidiary and its affiliates that exposed personal information belonging to millions of customers in Japan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2019
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) data leak exposes data of 2.3M survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) has disclosed a data leak that exposed banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million survivors. In case of national disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) offers a program called Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) that provides shelter to survivors.  News of the day is that FEMA has […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
gnosticplayers offers 26 Million new accounts for sale on the Dark Web

The hacker gnosticplayers is offering the fourth batch of millions of records stolen from 6 new websites for sale on the dark web. Gnosticplayers is back with the fourth round of hacked accounts offered for sale on the dark web. In February, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
Unprotected Elasticsearch DB exposed 33 Million job profiles in China

Security expert discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million job profiles in China.  Security expert Sanyam Jain at GDI Foundation has discovered an unprotected database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million profiles for people in China who provided their resume to job recruitment sites.  The expert discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
Secur Solutions Group data leak exposes 800,000 Singapore blood donors

Secur Solutions Group data leak – Another clamorous data leak made the headlines, personal information of 808,201 blood donors in Singapore was exposed online. The news was first reported by The Straits Times, the huge trove of data was contained in a database operated by the Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG). People who registered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2019
Payment data of thousands of customers of UK and US online stores could have been compromised

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has uncovered a malicious code designed to steal customers’ payment data on seven online stores in the UK and the US. The injected code has been identified as a new JavaScript Sniffer (JS Sniffer), dubbed by Group-IB as GMO. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team first discovered the GMO JS Sniffer on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2019
Mysterious open database included ‘BreedReady’ status for 1.8 Million Women

Expert found an open database in China containing the personal information of more than 1.8 million women, including a strange “BreedReady” status. Another data leak made the headlines, this time a database containing a creepy set of details collected on more than 1.8 million women in China was left unprotected online. The huge trove of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2019
Saudi caller ID Dalil app exposed data of more than 5 million users

The Android caller ID app Dalil exposed online data belonging over 5 million users, security experts discovered a MongoDB database left accessible on the web without a password. The MongoDB behind the Android caller ID app Dalil was left exposed online, at least for a week, without a password, leaving 5 million users accessible on […]