Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. More than 500,000 Activision accounts may have compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by the gaming firm on September 20, reported the eSports site Dexerto. Yeah, it's legit guys.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble have discovered user records of American online food ordering and delivery platform UberEats on DarkWeb. Another day, another data breach made the headlines, this time the alleged victim is UberEATS. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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 20, 2020

Early March, the security expert Bob Diachenko uncovered an Elasticsearch cluster containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names. The archive was left exposed online for anyone to access without authentication. Then the experts added the records to their data breach notification service [link].

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

The researchers acquired the data and analyzed it, then indexed the information on the company data breach monitoring and notification platform AmiBreached.com. People who’re concerned about their information exposure can register on the platform to query it to check if their data have been exposed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The database containing personal information of over 600,000 clients of the US fitness chain Town Sports was exposed on the Internet. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

Twitter confirmed that the recent data breach that exposed data of 5.4 At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 The threat actor offered for sale the stolen data on the popular hacking forum Breached Forums. The seller claimed that the database was containing data (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

As usual, let me suggest to enable two-factor authentication when implemented by the service, this could help you to protect your account in case of a data breach. To set up two-factor authentication on Discord you read the guide provided by the support. SecurityAffairs – Discord, data breach).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Pluto TV is an American internet television service, it is an advertiser-supported video on demand (AVOD) service that primarily offers a selection of programming content through digital linear channels designed to emulate the experience of traditional broadcast programming. The service has over 28 million members.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The database contains personally-identifiable and subscription information for 44,000,000 Pakistanis, including customer full names, home addresses (city, region, street name), National identification (CNIC) numbers, mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, and dates of subscription. – Database apparently got hacked in 2017.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The hack took place in early November and exposed data for more than 20 million user accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The researcher said he informed the USPS about his finding more than a year ago yet never received a response. No special hacking tools were needed to pull this data, other than knowledge of how to view and modify data elements processed by a regular Web browser like Chrome or Firefox.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more than five million users. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 The threat actor offered for sale the stolen data on the popular hacking forum Breached Forums.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2022

“The vulnerability allows any party without any authentication to obtain a twitter ID (which is almost equal to getting the username of an account) of any user by submitting a phone number/email even though the user has prohibitted this action in the privacy settings. The seller also shared a sample of data in the form of a csv file.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI recommends individuals take the following precautions: Do not advertise information about financial assets, including ownership or investment of cryptocurrency, on social media websites and forums. Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Apple created post-quantum cryptographic protocol PQ3 for iMessage Russian hacker is set to face trial for the hack of a local power grid Microsoft released red teaming tool PyRIT for Generative AI CISA orders federal agencies to fix ConnectWise ScreenConnect bug in a week FTC charged Avast with selling users’ browsing data to advertising companies (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Knowledge of a the validation key allows an authenticated user with a mailbox to pass arbitrary objects to be deserialized by the web application, which runs as SYSTEM.” 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, 2020

According to the Russian newspaper, a user that goes online with the moniker “Gorka9” advertised free access to the personal information of 7.6 According to the Russian newspaper, some users of the dark web forum are attempting to monetize the leaked data reporting them to the U.S. ” concludes the newspaper.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The unauthorized third party was able to acquire information that was in our database on May 3, 2019. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to delivery and restaurant partners. The hacker took credit for the data breach while discussing with ZDNet about the Canva hack allegations last month.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

shared a screenshot of the data breach notification email sent by the trading platform to its users, the message said that almost all of the leaked accounts don’t belong to Poloniex accounts. . The Poloniex exchange’s support team confirmed on December 30 the authenticity of the message in a public Tweet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A massive data leak made the headlines, over 750,000 birth certificate applications have been exposed online due to an unsecured AWS bucket. Penetration testing firm Fidus Information Security discovered over 752,000 birth certificate applications that have been exposed online due to an unsecured AWS bucket. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. At the time of publishing this article, the Maze ransomware operators have released three screenshots as proof of the data breach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

StockX, the live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, announced a data breach. An unauthorized user was able to access customer data, as part of the incident response, StockX forced a password reset for its customers. . ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

As a proof of the authenticity of the data, the hacker has leaked some anonymized data containing all the car details present in the traffic police registry. ” The accuracy of the data has been verified by Vedomosti media. “ “In the published data there is only anonymized information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

New strain of Cerberus Android banking trojan can steal Google Authenticator codes. Sodinokibi Ransomware gang threatens to disclose data from Kenneth Cole fashion firm. US Railroad firm RailWorks discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The huge trove of payment card data was spotted by researchers from the cyber-security firm Gemini Advisory. The Joker’s Stash dark web marketplace is one of the most popular carding websites, it is known for advertising and card details from major breaches. ” reads the post published by Gemini Advisory.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Its findings included data from Irish businesses, which ranked cyber attacks and data breaches as their top risk they face. Symantec has identified many of the tools gangs use to remove data from compromised networks. Some of the world’s biggest online advertisers had used the TCF to gather user preferences.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

An Elasticsearch server containing personal details of hundreds of thousands of dating site users were exposed online without authentication. The unsecured database was discovered by security researchers from vpnMentor at the end of August. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

A few days ago, researchers from F-Secure disclosed a number of vulnerabilities in the “Salt” framework, including two issues that could be exploited by attackers to take over Salt installations. Chaining the issue, an attacker could bypass authentication and run arbitrary code on Salt master servers exposed online.

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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. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 11, 2021

” The experts pointed out that custom malware used to amass such kind of data is very cheap, easy to find online and customizable. Multiple posts on the Dark Web advertise similar malware that is available for as little as $100. The malware stole nearly 26 million login credentials holding 1.1 million files.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

BleepingComputer verified the authenticity of some of the exposed data and published the full list of the 18 archives leaked by the threat actor: Company User Records Reported Breach Date Known? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Appen.com 5.8 Million N/A No Chatbooks.com 15.8

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“Exposure included limited contact information for (currently hundreds of) company contacts and employees (current and former), as well as limited advertiser information.” “Based on several days of initial investigation by security, engineering, and data science (and friends!),

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It seems that the hacktivists have stolen 5,4 Gigabytes of documents , at the time there is no info about the authenticity of the documents. According to the experts the hackers may have had the complete control of the account, but fortunately, their intent was to demonstrate the hack of security instead of defraud ing users.

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