data leak

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2019
Collection #1 dump, 773 million emails, 21 million passwords

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2019
Dark Overlord hacking crew publishes first batch of confidential 9/11 files

The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2019
Blur data leak potentially exposed data of 2.4 Million users

A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket is the root cause of a data leak that impacted 2.4 million Blur users, reported the online privacy firm Abine. Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. The application was developed to secure the personal […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2019
Hackers leak data on hundreds of German Politicians, including Chancellor Merkel

German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. Data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were exposed online due to a massive leak that is the biggest data dump of its kind in the country. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2019
wget utility potential leaked password via extended filesystem attributes

Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2018
Personal details of roughly 1000 North Korean defectors leaked in hacking case.

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 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 Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. It is not clear how long data remained exposed online or who accessed them. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Amazon UK is notifying a data breach to its customers days before Black Friday

Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak. The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2018
Instagram glitch exposed some user passwords

Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. According to a company spokesperson, the bug was “discovered internally and affected a very small number of people.” The news […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2018
Million password resets and 2FA codes exposed in unsecured Vovox DB

Million of password resets and two-factor authentication codes exposed in unsecured Vovox DB. Sébastien Kaul, a security researcher based in Berlin, has discovered a poorly secured database owned by communication firm Vovox that contained left names, phone numbers, tens of millions of SMS messages, temporary passwords, two-factor codes, shipping alerts, and other information belonging to customers of companies […]