Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2019
Tens of state attorneys general announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a 2013 data breach. Tens of attorneys general announced this week a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. 43 states and the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 million players of the browser-based role-playing game Town of Salem Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. The bad news for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2018
Personal details of roughly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in South Korea have been leaked in a hacking case. Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors were leaked as a result of a cyber attack exposing them to severe threats from Pyongyang. A similar incident has never happened before, the Unification Ministry said that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2018
BevMo, the wine and liquor store, is warning customers of payment card breach and reported the incident to the authorities. The wine and liquor store BevMo suffered a payment card breach, a hacker stole credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who purchased goods on the website. The company has notified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2018
France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2018
Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. The attacker accessed personal information of student and staff, including names, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2018
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 15, 2018
Which are the worst passwords for 2018? SplashData report confirms that 123456 is the most used password for the 5th year in a row Bad habits are hard to die, 123456 is the most used password for the 5th year in a row followed by “password”. Even if security experts continue to make awareness campaign, people continue to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2018
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 Físicas (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
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 […]
