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Security Affairs
JUNE 19, 2025
Researchers discovered the largest data breach ever, exposing 16 billion login credentials, likely due to multiple infostealers. Researchers announced the discovery of what appears to be the largest data breach ever recorded, with an astonishing 16 billion login credentials exposed. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”)
SecureWorld News
JUNE 9, 2025
Additionally, a distributed workforce, ranging from remote maintenance technicians to cabin crews, multiplies entry points for social-engineering tactics like phishing. Aircraft themselves are nodes on data networks, constantly transmitting telemetry, engine performance metrics, and passenger connectivity data.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2021
An example of leaked passwords included in the RockYou2021 compilation: With a collection that exceeds its 12-year-old namesake by more than 262 times, this leak is comparable to the Compilation of Many Breaches (COMB) , the largest data breach compilation ever. Original post at: [link].
Krebs on Security
MAY 23, 2024
An ad for war.md, circa 2009. DON CHICHO & DFYZ The data breach tracking service Constella Intelligence reports that an Ivan V. ru ) show that in 2009 he was a spammer who peddled knockoff prescription drugs via Rx-Promotion , once one of the largest pharmacy spam moneymaking programs for Russian-speaking affiliates.
Malwarebytes
AUGUST 29, 2023
The Ohio History Connection (OHC) has posted a breach notification in which it discloses that a ransomware attack successfully encrypted internal data servers. During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023).
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 1, 2019
The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “ Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to investigate the data exposure, which included sensitive personal and tax information.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.
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