Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2018
NASA data breach – The agency notifies employees of a security intrusion

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) notifies employees of a data breach that exposed social security numbers and other personal information. According to the data breach notification, hackers have breached at least one of the agency’s servers, the security breach impacted both past and present employees.  Website SpaceRef published a data breach notification note sent by the NASA […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – 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! STOLEN PENCIL campaign, hackers target academic institutions. WordPress […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2018
ID Numbers for 120 Million Brazilians taxpayers exposed online

InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers for 120 million Brazilian taxpayers In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas FĂ­sicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2018
Evidence in Marriott’s subsidiary Starwood hack points out to China intel

According to a report published by the Reuters, the massive Marriott data breach was carried out by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. According to the Reuters, people investigating the Marriot data breach believe that it is the result of a cyberattack carried out by Chinese hackers. Last week Marriott International announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2018
Email accounts of top NRCC officials were hacked in 2018

Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. The email system at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, was hacked. The news was first reported by Politico, later the committee admitted the intrusion […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2018
Quora data breach: hackers obtained information on roughly 100 million users

Another day another illustrious victim of the data breach, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach that exposed 100 million users. On Monday, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach, unknown hackers breached its systems and accessed 100 million user data. The company is notifying the incident to the affected users and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2018
Experts found data belonging to 82 Million US Users exposed on unprotected Elasticsearch Instances

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2018
327 million Marriott guests affected in Starwood Data Breach

Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. Marriott International is the last victim of a long string of data breaches, the company announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary Starwood hotels and stolen personal details of about 500 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
Dell data breach – Dell forces password reset after the incident

Dell data breach – IT giant Dell disclosed a data breach, the company confirmed it has detected an intrusion in its systems on November 9th 2018. Attackers were trying to exfiltrate customer data (i.e. names, email addresses, and hashed passwords) from the company portal Dell.com, from support.dell.com websites. Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2018
AccuDoc Data Breach impacted 2.6 Million Atrium Health patients

Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hacked accessed patients’ personal information after compromised the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. Atrium Health offers healthcare and wellness programs in the Southeast of the United States through more than 40 hospitals and 900 care locations. AccuDoc is a company providing technology solutions to the healthcare industry, including Hospital […]