Data Breach

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2018
T-Mobile data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers

T-Mobile today announced It has suffered a security breach that May have exposed personal information of up to 2 million T-mobile customers. According to the telco giant, the incident affected its US servers on August 20, leaked information includes customers’ name, billing zip code, phone number, email address, account number, and account type (prepaid or postpaid). T-Mobile notified the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Crooks claim to have stolen 20k customer records from Superdrug cosmetics retailer

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. Hackers accessed customers’ names, addresses and in some cases […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 176 – 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! ·      DNS Hijacking targets Brazilian financial institutions ·      […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2018
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
An Australian schoolboy hacked into Apple Servers and stole 90GB of secure files

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – 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! ·      A malware paralyzed TSMC plants where also […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2018
Unsecured AWS S3 Bucket exposed sensitive data on 31,000 GoDaddy servers

UpGuard discovered an unsecured GoDaddy’s Amazon S3 bucket containing sensitive information related to more than 31,000 GoDaddy systems. Experts at cybersecurity firm UpGuard have reported that another big company was victim of a data leak, it is the domain name registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy. The popular UpGuard’s risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered an unsecured […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2018
Snapchat source Code leaked after an iOS update exposed it

Hackers leaked the Snapchat source code on GitHub, after they attempted to contact the company for a reward. Hackers gained access to the source code of the frontend of Snapchat instant messaging app for iOS and leaked it on GitHub. A GitHub account associated with a person with the name Khaled Alshehri who claimed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2018
Group-IB experts record a massive surge of user data leaks form cryptocurrency exchanges

Group-IB researchers have investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. Security experts from Group-IB, an international company specializing in preventing cyberattacks and developing information security solutions, has investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. Within a year, the number […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2018
TCM Bank: website misconfiguration exposed applicant data for 16 months

TCM Bank announced that a Web site misconfiguration exposed applicant data for 16 months, between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018 TCM Bank, a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard, serves as a trusted advisor to community banks, it serves as a direct issuer of credit cards for more than 750 small and community U.S. banks who prefer […]