data leakage

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2016
GhostShell is back and leaked 36 million records

GhostShell is back and leaked 36 million records from vulnerable networks to invite experts to pay attention to the new MEAN Stack. GhostShell is back and once again to warn us about the poor security posture of many services, this time, he announced to have leaked 36 million accounts/records. The hacker is inviting experts to pay attention to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2016
“Restricted” NATO manual accidentally leaked to boat operators

Incredible, secret plans for NATO exercise Joint Warrior 161 were accidentally sent to Scottish fishermen and ferry operators emails. During the First World War, allied forces were able to read a lot of German radio traffic because of codebooks falling into allied hands.  Eerily reminiscent of those days, NATO forces recently ran into a similar scenario, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2016
Man behind The Fappening case charged with hacking celebrity accounts

Pennsylvania man behind the Fappening case Charged with hacking Apple and Google e-Mail accounts belonging to more than 100 people. The culprit of the popular Fappening case may have a name, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it charged Ryan Collins, 36, of Pennsylvania for hacking Apple and Google E-Mail accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2016
Hackers leaked DHS staff records, 200GB of files are in their hands

A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2015
Some Uber ride data is publicly accessible through Google

Some Uber trip information is publicly accessible through simple Google queries, the set includes trip and user info, and home and work addresses. Rapid diffusion of technology makes easy phenomena of accidental data leakage, the last one is related to the popular car service Uber. Dozens of trips of Uber customers have been cached by […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2014
Alleged Anonymous members leaked 13000 credentials for popular websites

A group of hackers claiming to be members of the collective Anonymous has released online a lot of 13,000 passwords and credit cards for popular websites. Hackers claiming to be members of the popular group of hacktivists Anonymous have leaked more than 13,000 alleged credentials for some popular websites, including Amazon, Playstation Network and Xbox Live. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2014
Hackers leak scripts, celebrity phones and aliases at Sony Pictures Entertainment

GOP released a new archive of Sony Pictures Entertainment confidential data including private information of employees, celebrity phone numbers, film scripts and many more. The Sony Pictures data breach is becoming a never ending history, the GOP is leaking company data and much more since the attack while security firms are providing the details of their […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2014
93 percent of Government Chinese websites are vulnerable

A report issued by the China Software Testing Center revealed that 93 percent of Chinese websites are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Nearly 93 percent of 1,000 Chinese government websites under evaluation is affected by vulnerabilities and other security issues. The data is part of a study conducted by the China Software Testing Center under the Chinese […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2014
The Fappening 3, other nude celebrity photos leaked

A new collection of photos belonging to the Fappening archives have been leaked online, it includes nudes of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities. The Fappening is now in its third episode and the celebrities are naked again. The Fappening seems to be never ending story, a new archive of nude celebrity photos has been leaked online. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2014
The Fappening Continues, Nudes of celebrities on line again

Another cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities was disclosed online, investigators believe that this wave is linked to the first Fappening archive. During the last weeks media have focused their attention on the celebrity iCloud hacking case, hundreds of naked pictures are available online raising the interest to the level of security offered by cloud […]