Financial companies leak 425GB in company, client data through open database
Charlie Osborne reports: An open database is the source of a data leak leading to the exposure of 425GB in sensitive documents belonging to financial companies. On Tuesday, vpnMentor researchers led by...
View ArticleRogers notifies customers their personal information may have been compromised
Aisha Malik reports: Rogers has notified customers that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach. “On February 26, 2020, Rogers became aware that one of our external...
View ArticleSodinokibi Ransomware Data Leaks Now Sold on Hacker Forums
Lawrence Abrams reports: … Recently, the Sodinokibi Ransomware operators published over 12 GB of stolen data allegedly belonging to a company named Brooks International for not paying the ransom. Read...
View Article[CORRECTED] A UK-based Security Company Seemed To Have Inadvertently Exposed...
UPDATE and CORRECTION: DataBreaches.net received an email from a firm who claimed that a report by Bob Diachenko, whose research report had been quoted on DataBreaches.net, had incorrectly claimed...
View ArticleIndia’s Vijay Sales Leaks Private Information through Exposed Amazon Backup...
Risk Based Security notes: On March 2nd, 2020, a notorious threat actor posted a leaked Vijay Sales database on a popular dark web hacker forum. Vijay Sales is a large electronics retail store chain in...
View ArticleSecurity Breach Disrupts Fintech Firm Finastra
Brian Krebs reports: Finastra, a company that provides a range of technology solutions to banks worldwide, said today it was shutting down key systems in response to a security breach discovered this...
View ArticleTQL faces lawsuit over data breach
Clarissa Hawes reports an update to a previously reported breach: A trucking company has filed a lawsuit against Total Quality Logistics (TQL) over its recent data breach, alleging the company was...
View ArticleAmeren Missouri Equipment Supplier Targeted In Ransomware Attack
Shahla Farzan reports: Ransomware attackers have stolen data from a third-party vendor that supplies utility equipment to Ameren Missouri power plants. Dozens of data files from Ohio-based LTI Power...
View ArticleHacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating...
View ArticleIndian property site hack leads to 2 million users’ data exposed
Hindustan Times reports: Private data of more than 2 million users were shared on a hacking forum following a major security breach of the Indian property website PropTiger in 2018. According to a new...
View ArticleMedical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by data-stealing DoppelPayme...
Zack Whittaker reports: Kimchuk, a medical and military electronics maker, has been hit by data-stealing ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. The Danbury, Conn.-based manufacturer, which builds...
View ArticleHouseparty app offers $1m reward to unmask entity behind hacking smear campaign
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Houseparty, a video conferencing desktop and mobile application, said it would pay a $1 million bounty to anyone who could unmask the entity behind what the company described...
View ArticleMarriott data breach exposes personal data of 5.2 million guests
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Marriott has informed 5.2 million guests that their personal details were inappropriately accessed in a possible data breach. Contacts details, loyalty account information,...
View ArticleVirgin Media facing lawsuit over exposed database
It’s Wednesday, so law firms continue to try to round up clients for potential class action lawsuits by making big noises about how much money a company might be required to pay out. Emer Scully...
View ArticleUK: Morrisons not liable for 2014 data breach, says Supreme Court
Alex Scroxton reports: Supermarket chain Morrisons has succeeded in its appeal to the Supreme Court against judgments that held it liable for an insider data breach caused by a disgruntled employee. In...
View ArticleEx-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom
Zack Whittaker reports: Zoom’s troubled year just got worse. Now that a large portion of the world is working from home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom’s popularity has rocketed, but also...
View ArticleProsecutors Charge Two Men over Coincheck Hack, But Not For Hacking
Tim Alper reports: Tokyo prosecutors have formally charged two men with handling stolen cryptoassets as part of the investigation into the January 2018 hack on crypto exchange Coincheck – still the...
View ArticleZoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
Ainsley Harris reports: A few weeks ago, New York City’s 75,000 teachers scrambled to learn how to use videoconferencing services like Zoom as novel coronavirus cases began to rise and schools prepared...
View ArticleEmail provider got hacked, data of 600,000 users now sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold on the dark web, ZDNet has learned following a tip from one of our readers. “Unfortunately, we must confirm...
View ArticleVianet’s customer data compromised with latest leaks
NepaliTelecom reports: While we just completed the Challenges of ISP for the current situation, another news appeared of the data leak for one of the leading Internet services providers in Nepal. Of...
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