Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2019
Experts found an unprotected server exposing online 4 MongoDB databases belonging to the email validation company Verifications.io. A new mega data leak made the headlines, an unprotected MongoDB database (150GB) belonging to a marketing company exposed up to 809 million records. The archive includes 808,539,849 records containing: emailrecords = 798,171,891 records emailWithPhone = 4,150,600 records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2019
Gnosticplayers hacker is offering in a third round a new set of databases containing millions of hacked accounts from unreported data breaches. Last week, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in two rounds. The experts offered for sale the huge trove of data for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2019
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
January 31, 2019
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
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 26, 2019
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 20, 2019
Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the huge trove of data, called Collection #1, that was first disclosed by Troy Hunt. Few weeks ago I wrote about “How Data Breaches Happen“, where I shared some public available “pasties” within apparently (not tested) SQLi vulnerable websites. One of the most famous data breaches in the past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2019
The popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt has uncovered a massive data leak he called ‘Collection #1’ that included 773 million records. The name ‘Collection #1’ comes from the name of the root folder. Someone has collected a huge trove of data through credential stuffing, the ‘Collection #1’ archive is a set of email addresses […]
