data leak

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2019
Shanghai Jiao Tong University data leak – 8.4TB in email metadata exposed

Security expert discovered an exposed database belonging to Shanghai Jiao Tong University containing 8.4TB in email metadata. Cloudflare Director of Trust & Safety Justin Paine discovered an unprotected database owned by Shanghai Jiao Tong University that was exposed online. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University is considered one of the most prominent academic institution based in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2019
The Pyramid Hotel Group data leak exposes 85GB of security logs of major hotel chains

vpnMentor researches have recently discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group have suffered a data leak. vpnMentor experts have discovered that hotel brands managed by The Pyramid Hotel Group, including Marriott, have suffered a data leak, vpnMentor’s research team discovered the unprotected server through port scanning to examine known IP blocks. Researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2019
First American Financial exposed 16 years’ worth of personal and financial documents

The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. The company has more than 18,000 employees and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018. Roughly 885 million insurance-related documents […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2019
Dozens of Linksys router models leak data useful for hackers

Dozens of Linksys router models are affected by a flaw that causes the leak of data that can be used by attackers …. and the company won’t fix it. Security researcher Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, discovered that over 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are leaking full historical records of every device ever connected to them. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Twitter inadvertently collected and shared iOS location data

Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
Unprotected DB exposed PII belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens

Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Exposed data includes full names, birth dates, national ID numbers, medical insurance numbers, and other personal data. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2019
Freedom Mobile data breach impacts at least 15,000 customers

Canadian Freedom Mobile mobile network operator exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unprotected database containing information belonging to Freedom Mobile customers. Freedom Mobile is the fourth largest mobile network operator in Canada. The unprotected database stored at least 5 million records associated with 1.5 million […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2019
Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households

vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million US households, and the incident is still actively leaking data.  Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living in each household […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2019
Ride-Hailing Company operating in Iran exposes data of Iranian Drivers

Security researcher discovered a database belonging to a ride-hailing company operating in Iran that was left exposed online containing over 6.7M records. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to a ride-hailing company operating in Iran that was left exposed online without protection. The MongoDB instance named ‘doroshke-invoice-production‘ contained over 6.7 million records of […]