Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. The company already notified local authorities and sent a data breach notification to the impacted customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, IKEA).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? So, someone did that 167 million times, dumped the data and shared it on a popular hacking forum. Not hacked: Gravatar was not hacked.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

American Express warns customers that their credit cards were exposed due to a data breach experienced by a third-party merchant processor. American Express (Amex) notifies customers that their credit card information has been compromised in a data breach involving a third-party merchant processor.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitality chain McMenamins disclosed a data breach after a recent ransomware attack. Hospitality chain McMenamins discloses a data breach after a ransomware attack that took place on December 12. ” concludes the data breach notification. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Penetration Testing

JULY 26, 2024

On the popular pirate e-book site Z-Library, or rather its phishing clone Z-lib, created in late 2022, there was a recent data breach affecting nearly 10 million users. On June 27, 2024, the Cybernews... The post 10 Million Users Compromised in Z-Library Phishing Site Hack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Black Basta ransomware gang claims the hack of the car maker Hyundai Motor Europe and the theft of three terabytes of their data. BleepingComputer reported that the Car maker Hyundai Motor Europe was breached by the Black Basta ransomware gang. The threat actors claim to have stolen three terabytes of data from the company.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. This is when hackers try usernames and password combos leaked in data breaches at other companies, hoping that some users might have reused usernames and passwords across services.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2024

Data breach verification: that seems like a good place to start given the discussion in this week's video about Accor. Watch the vid for the whole thing but in summary, data allegedly taken from Accor was published to a popular hacking forum and the headlines inevitably followed. Book a demo today.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way. . Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project. . SecurityAffairs – data breach, Option Way).

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 19, 2020

TOPIC: In this episode, Daniel takes a look at the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. 45% of breaches involved Hacking. 58% had personal data compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 11, 2020

References The next public "Hack Yourself First" workshop Scott Helme and I are doing is "in" Melbourne later next month (ok, so it's online like everything else now, but it's at an Asia Pacific friendly time) You should see the size of the data breach that literally landed on my doorstep!!!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

HappyHotel , a Japanese search engine used to find and book rooms in “love hotels,” announced to have suffered a security breach in December. Almex , the company that operates HappyHotel , published a data breach notice on the website. SecurityAffairs – HappyHotel, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The group claims to have stolen 24,449,137 files, approximately 6 TB of data. The group reported that the alleged stolen data includes booking confirmations for the past 3 years. We have extracted 24,449,137 files, approximately 6 TB of data. the fashion giant Moncler , the Swissport , NCR , and Western Digital.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2013, Kurittu worked on investigation involving Kivimaki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimaki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet. “According to Vastaamo, the data breach in Vastaamo’s customer databases took place in November 2018,” Iltalehti reported last month.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws. But even with 20 years' worth of experience and claims data in cyberinsurance, underwriters still struggle with how to model and quantify a unique type of risk.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Andrew Stewart has an excellent new book, A Vulnerable System. A Vulnerable System is a new book from Andrew J. The book is worth your time if you work in security. The book is worth your time if you work in security. From there, the book takes the reader on a tour of the early papers and the folks who wrote them. (He

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

Retailer WH Smith disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack, threat actors had access to access company data. Retailer WH Smith revealed that threat actors have breached its infrastructure and had access to the data of about 12,500 current and former employees.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

According to Active Network data breach notice, parents who accessed Blue Bear-based web store to pay school fees or buy books and other material between October 1, 2019, and November 13, 2019, might have had their personal data stolen. ” reads the notice of data breach. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Customers' lists of book purchases along with email addresses and more could have been exposed -- and that's a problem.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

Here’s a look at the havoc that lag has wrought, as seen through the purchasing patterns at one of the underground’s biggest stolen card shops that was hacked last year. In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Personal and payment card information of 380,000 British Airways customers were stolen by attackers, stolen data did not include travel or passport details. British Airways was hacked, customer personal and payment card information of 380,000 were stolen by attackers, the stolen data did not include travel or passport details.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2024

London hospitals canceled over 800 operations in the week after Synnovis ransomware attack DORA Compliance Strategy for Business Leaders City of Cleveland still working to fully restore systems impacted by a cyber attack Two Ukrainians accused of spreading Russian propaganda and hack soldiers’ phones Google fixed an actively exploited zero-day (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Zyxel device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2025 ficed 2 actively exploited bugs Hacking Attackers exploit a new zero-day to hijack Fortinet firewalls Security OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797 Progress Software fixed multiple high-severity (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

The hacker is using the moniker “NightLion,” which is the name of the hacked company. The databases are the back-end behind the DataViper a data leak monitoring service managed by the popular researcher Vinny Troia. The hacker shared evidence of the hack with tens of cyber-security journalists and experts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

The crooks phoned the clients of the hotel asking them to confirm their restaurant bookings by providing their payment card details. To cash out the payment card data obtained, the scammers attempted to make purchases at the catalogue retailer Argos. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ritz hotel). ” reported the BBC.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

According to a report published by researchers at PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps. In a report published on the 16 th of March by PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Travel Apps).

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2020

Troia recently published a book called Hunting Cybercriminals, A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques. The book reveals secrets of The Dark Overlord and other hacking groups which Troia communicated with through various dark web aliases. Where can I learn more about the revenge hack?

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 3, 2022

The Privacy Protection Authority in Israel seized servers hosting multiple travel booking websites because their operator failed to address security issues that enabled data breaches affecting more than 300,000 individuals. [.].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to Cyble, now, another threat actor is spreading the same data on multiple dark web forums in an attempt to gain fame. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Airlink International UAE). The post Data from Airlink International UAE leaked on multiple dark web forums appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service. But, then again, you may have been hacked–“wiped” being the current term of art and something Iran has earned a reputation for. You may have made a mistake.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 26, 2022

Policybazaar, the Indian Insurance companies that offer an array of online services to users seeking health and car insurance were targeted by hackers leading to a data breach. So, at this juncture, incidents such as these can put a permanent dent to their business expansion, as IRDAI doesn’t take data breaches lightly.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

The book was written by several members of ERI’s leadership team, Aaron Blum, Kevin Dillon, Brendan Egan, John Shegerian and Tammy Shegerian and is available for purchase via Amazon Prime as a physical copy or digitally on Amazon. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

New Google bug bounty allows reporting the abuses of Google API, Chrome, and Android user data. Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data. USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack. XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers. Crooks stole €1.5

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