Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Last week, hackers published a list of Discord credentials (email addresses/passwords) that were allegedly phished from the users of the gaming chat platform. “Along with their message, the hackers posted a database of the allegedly phished credentials, split into multiple sections of those that work and those that don’t.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

While Capital One incident is making the headlines, another incident may have severe consequences, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) also suffered a data breach. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Every year about this time, Verizon comes out with an annual review of the results of its investigations into thousands of data breaches and security incidents from around the world. The report can be very data heavy and even a little depressing, but we can learn great things from it. Here are just ten: 1.

Retail 52

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . charlysatoshi. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. ” reads the data breach notification. In response to the incident, Open Exchange Rates has forced a password reset for all accounts created before March 2, 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2020

The huge trove of account credentials was not stolen by Zoom, instead, it appears the result of credential stuffing attacks that leverage records from third-party data breaches. These accounts are shared via text sharing sites where the threat actors are posting lists of email addresses and password combinations.

Accountability 145

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. ” The company hired a security firm to investigate the incident, it discovered that the attack begun with a phishing email received in July 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Data breach hunter Bob Diachenko discovered a database belonging to the company exposed online. The post Data for 600K customers of U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2020

Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. “Today, we’re announcing Password Monitor in Microsoft Edge to help keep your online accounts safe from hackers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers admitted to have suffered a data breach that likely impacted approximately 3.4 Auctions platform LiveAuctioneers disclosed a a data breach that might have impacted approximately 3.4 ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

. “In a recent investigation of deep and dark web forums, IntSights researchers came across a cybercriminal who shared a database containing more than 2300 usernames and passwords to Zoom accounts.” While some of the accounts “only” included an email and password, others included meeting IDs, names and host keys.”

Healthcare 145

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SecureBlitz

MAY 25, 2021

In 2014, over 5 million Google account passwords were leaked online after a successful data breach. I will show you tips to protect your privacy online as well as social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, etc. in this post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. Pierluigi Paganini.

Insurance 86

Insurance Data breaches Financial Services Passwords 86

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One year ago in February, the major eBay hack was in progress, eventually resulting in over 233 million passwords being stolen. Take a look at the New York Times’ coverage of the data breach here for more insight. 10 Million Passwords Leaked Online. You can read why Mark leaked the passwords here on his personal blog.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

“The irony of that discovery is that it was a ‘data breach database’, an enormously huge collection of previously reported (and, perhaps, non-reported) security incidents spanning 2012-2019 era.” Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

The availability of such kind of data poses a serious risk to the US citizens that could be targeted by crooks in large scale phishing campaigns or financial frauds. Cyble acquired and indexed the database on its data breach monitoring and notification platform, AmiBreached.com. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed online via an exploit. .” ” continues the update.

Accountability 93

Accountability Data breaches Passwords Advertising 93

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

. “The server was live at the time of our investigation, leaking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data from people accessing private accounts on Le Figaro’s news website, and in some cases, their login credentials.” ” Experts pointed out that exposed data could lead to identity theft and multiple fraud scheme. .”

Identity Theft 113

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

Hacking 79

Hacking Cybercrime Data breaches Advertising 79

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

FIFA reveals it was the victim of a new s uccessful phishing campaign that resulted in the exposed confidential information of the organizations. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

“The credentials of nearly 4 million MobiFriends users have recently been discovered by our Data Breach Research team on a prominent deep web hacking forum. The leaked data sets are currently available in a non-restricted manner despite being originally offered for sale.” SecurityAffairs – data leak, hacking).

Passwords 73

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Million by Dutch and UK Data Protection Authorities over data breach. · AccuDoc Data Breach impacted 2.6 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 20% discount. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

I must say I really enjoyed my conversations with different reps of @Razer support team via email for the last couple of week, but it did not bring us closer to securing the data breach in their systems. No other sensitive data such as credit card numbers or passwords was exposed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Here are some examples of how potential attackers can use the data found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket against the owners of the exposed email addresses: Spamming 350 million email IDs Carrying out phishing attacks Brute-forcing the passwords of the email accounts. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

Passwords 80

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s a heartwarming tale of multiple mass data compromises, which affected yours truly. We’ll also discuss how major data breaches occur, and what you can do to protect yourself in the Age of the Large Data Breach. Three breach notices in one week could have been an upsetting event. Last week was special.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers. Experts devised advanced SMS phishing attacks against modern Android-based phones. Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

Joker’s Stash, trading since 2014 , received more than $100,000 in Bitcoin from SSNDOB. Once your data is out there, you can’t get it back. You run the risk of being targeted for spear phishing, or having your personal information used for fraudulent applications. The threat of stolen PII.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

. “LOOK AT THIS SCREENSHOT [link] IF YOU NOT CONTACT US WE WILL PUBLISH YOUR DATA TO PUBLIC ACCESS. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hostinger disclosed a data breach that affects 14 Million customers. Binance says that leaked KYC Data are from third-party vendor. Experts uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering the Quasar RAT. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed. Code Execution and DoS flaw addressed in QEMU.

eCommerce 48

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2020

During COVID-19 outbreak data processors have to be extra vigilant to maintain their compliance with data protection authorities like GDPR. It has imposed online learning and earning, which in turn has open new doors of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. Most of the data breaches occur due to insecure networks.

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