Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2019
Hackers broke into Australia’s Parliament Computer Network

Australia’s parliament confirmed that is investigating a suspicious security incident that affected its computer network. Australia announced an ongoing investigation on unspecified ‘security incident’ in the federal parliament’s computer network. “Following a security incident on the parliamentary computing network, a number of measures have been implemented to protect the network and its users,” parliamentary authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2019
Security firm Recorded Future discovered the hacker behind Collection #1

Researchers at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have identified the hacker who amassed credentials in Collection #1 archive. Security experts at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have discovered the hacker who allegedly created and offered for sale the massive collection known as Collection #1. The ‘Collection #1’ archive was discovered by the cyber security […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2019
Home Design website Houzz suffered a data breach

The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. Houzz has over 40 million monthly unique users, at the time is not clear how many individuals are affected. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2019
State Bank of India left archive with millions of Customer messages exposed

Another data breach made the headlines, this time the victim is the State Bank of India that left a database containing personal information exposed online. The State Bank of India that left a database containing personal information exposed online. The discovery was made by an anonymous security researcher that has found a server used for […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2019
Airbus data breach exposes some employees’data

The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach that exposed some employees’ data. The European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers broke into the company “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems and gained access to some of its employees’ personal information. “Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2019
Dailymotion forces password reset in response to credential stuffing Attack

The popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were accessed by hackers as result of a massive credential stuffing attack. On Friday, the popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were hit by hackers. The company discovered unauthorized access attempts resulting from credential stuffing activity. The company blocked the attempts of intrusions […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 198 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Collection #1 Data Breach Analysis – Part 1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2019
“Collection #1” Data Breach Analysis – Part 2

The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli continues its analysis of the data leak known as Collection #1, he shared some interesting views on dataThe cyber security expert Marco Ramilli continues its analysis of the data leak known as Collection #1, he shared some interesting views on data On January 19th we downloaded Collection #1 to make statistics […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2019
PHP PEAR official site hacked, tainted package manager distributed for 6 months

PHP PEAR official site hacked, attackers replaced legitimate version of the package manager with a tainted version in the past 6 months. Bad news for users that have downloaded the PHP PEAR package manager from the official website in the past 6 months because hackers have replaced it with a tainted version. The PHP Extension and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2019
Did you win at online casinos? Watch out, your data might have had exposed online

Data belonging to online casinos found exposed online on unprotected Elastic search instance, it includes info on 108 million bets and user details Data breaches are an ordinary issue, this time an online casino group leaked information about 108 million bets including user details. Leaked data includes personal information and payment card details, including real […]