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Marriott Breach: More than 500 Million Guest Affected

Adam Levin

The vulnerability that the hackers took advantage of had been in place and used for “unauthorized access,” according to the company statement, since 2014. . “The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it,” Marriott disclosed in a statement.

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Australian social news platform leaks 80,000 user records

Security Affairs

Fortunately, the files stored in the exposed Snewpit bucket don’t contain any deeply sensitive information like personal document scans, passwords, or social security numbers. Immediately change your email password and consider using a password manager. What’s the impact of the leak? What happened to the data?

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350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Security Affairs

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. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

If you’re not familiar, the federal organization is the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM announced it was compromised in June of 2015, with the attackers possibly having access as early as March 2014. Thankfully, this had no significant security impact for me. Three breach notices in one week could have been an upsetting event.

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IndieFlix streaming service leaves thousands of confidential agreements, filmmaker SSNs, videos exposed on public server

Security Affairs

Acquiring someone’s social security number or employer identification number is one of the first steps toward committing identity theft. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Disclosure. Pierluigi Paganini.