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A customer database left unsecured online by Virgin Media contained details linking some customers to pornography and explicit websites. The researchers who first discovered the database told the BBC that it contained more information than Virgin Media suggested. Such details Read More …
A configuration failure on a server belonging to Orsegups Participações, a large Brazil-based holding company that controls seven businesses active in the property security sector, exposed a series of tax documents revealing clients’ contract values and staff information. The leak, Read More …
A database exposing the names, phone numbers and Facebook user IDs of millions of platform users was left unsecured on the web for nearly two weeks before it was removed. Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who along with Comparitech discovered the unsecured Read More …
An open Elasticsearch server has exposed the rich profiles of more than 1.2 billion people to the open internet. First found on October 16 by researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the database contains more than 4 terabytes of data. Read More …
An open database exposing records containing the sensitive data of hotel customers as well as US military personnel and officials has been disclosed by researchers. On Monday, vpnMentor’s cybersecurity team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, said the database belonged to Read More …
A lawsuit on the 2017 data breach allege that Equifax staffers used the default – ‘admin’ – as the username and password to secure customer information portal How would you secure a portal containing valuable, personal finance information of 148 million Read More …
Over 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens were left unprotected and exposed through an online database accessible to the public, researchers say. This week, cybersecurity researchers from Comparitech, in partnership with Bob Diachenko, said that the unsecured server contained Read More …
The United Nations’ children’s agency UNICEF has leaked thousands of individuals’ personal data through its online learning portal Agora. An email was mistakenly sent on 26 August to 20,000 Agora users containing the private data belonging to 8,253 people who Read More …
A Russian security researcher has found that hardware equipment meant to be used by Russian authorities to intercept internet traffic had been leaving data exposed on the internet. The leaky equipment were SORM devices. These are hardware wiretaps that all Read More …
This year is on track to be the worst year on record for data breach activity, according to a recent analysis. Within the first six months of this year, there have been 3,813 incidents publicly reported, according to Risk Based Read More …
