Data Breach

Hackers Leak Another Set of Medibank Customer Data on the Dark Web

Following its reluctance to pay a ransom, Medibank revealed on Thursday that the threat actors responsible for the disastrous cyberattack have disclosed another data dump of information taken from its systems on the dark web. The Australian health insurance said, “We are in the midst of reviewing the data, but the data released looks to […]

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Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies’ Data Leak

In response to a security mistake that left an endpoint publicly available over the internet without any authentication, Microsoft this week acknowledged that it unintentionally exposed information pertaining to thousands of customers. According to a warning from Microsoft, “this misconfiguration created the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between

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400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing User Log-in Credentials Have Been Detected by Facebook

On Friday, Meta Platforms announced that it had discovered over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it claimed were aimed at online users in order to steal their Facebook login credentials. According to a study provided with The Hacker News by the social media giant, “These programs were placed on the Google Play

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Ex-NSA Systems Security Engineer Detained for Attempting To Sell Secret Data to Foreign Government

A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States has been detained on suspicion of attempting to sell sensitive information to a foreign agent who was actually a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover agent (FBI). From June 6 to July 1, 2022, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, worked for the NSA for

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Shopify Caught Using Weak Password Policy Involved in Password Breaches

According to a recent revelation, the Shopify customer-facing section of its website has extremely lax password requirements. The article claims that Shopify requires its users to create passwords that are at least five characters long and do not contain a space at the start or end. One billion passwords that were known to have been

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Hackers Attack Panasonic Leaving Possibilities Of A Large Data Breach

Panasonic has disclosed a security breach wherein unauthorized third-party broke into its network and accessed data from its file servers. Panasonic in a short statement published on November 26 had stated that “As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion,”.

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GoDaddy Suffers Massive Data Breach of 1 Million WordPress Customers Data

GoDaddy on Monday suffered a data breach which resulted in the unauthorized access of data belonging to 1.2 million active and inactive customers which makes this the third security incident to happen since 2018. It stated in its filing to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) that a malicious third-party gained access to its Managed

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Robinhood Trading App Suffers Data Breach of over 7 Million Users’ Account

Robinhood has disclosed a security breach incidence which took place “late in the evening of November 3” and affected over 7 million customers eventually resulting in unauthorized access of personal information by an unidentified threat actor. They have however stated that the attack has been contained and no Social Security, bank account numbers or debit

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OSINT: All You Need To Know

OSINT is intelligence “drawn from publicly available material”, according to the CIA. Most intelligence experts extend that definition to mean information intended for public consumption. The CIA says that OSINT includes information gathered from the internet, mass media, specialist journals and research, photos, and geospatial information. Most of these sources were used in the Bellingcat

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Hackers Attack The Live Streaming Platform Twitch

Twitch has acknowledged a “breach” after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools. The leak is said to have happened as a result of an error in a Twitch server

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