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Sporting Goods Retailer Decathlon Leaked 123 Million Records, Including Passwords
French sporting goods retail chain Decathlon has landed in hot water recently, as it came to light that it has leaked a whopping 123 million records of both customers and employees due to a misconfigured database.... Read more
Schemers Are Selling Fake Coronavirus Kits, Scamming Johns Hopkins' Patients, Impersonating WHO Officials
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, which was always going to put some of us in a state of panic. It's fair to say, however, that by then, people were already... Read more
Whisper, a Social Media App That Promises Anonymity, Exposes 900 Million User Records
The difference between Whisper and more conventional social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter is that you don't need to enter any personal information in order to use it. Instead, you just pick a username,... Read more
A Parts Supplier for Tesla, SpaceX, and Lockheed Martin Has Suffered a Data Breach
After requests for comment from TechCrunch, Visser Precision, a Denver, Colorado-based manufacturer of parts for a variety of different industries, confirmed that it had suffered a cyberattack. For reasons that remain... Read more
Remine Shared Private Keys and Passwords Carelessly, and This Could Have Led to a Massive Data Breach
Security researchers have probably grown pretty tired of discovering and reporting databases that contain large volumes of sensitive information and can be accessed from anywhere without requiring authentication. It's... Read more
A Decade's Worth of Private User Data Has Been Exposed by Rallyhood
When Zack Whittaker from TechCrunch got in touch with Rallyhood to talk about a misconfigured S3 bucket that exposed quite a lot of user data, he was initially told that the leaky database was used for testing... Read more
Was Your Vimeo Account Frozen? Here's Why
It's safe to say that individuals should be responsible for their own security and should bear the consequences when they don't take this task seriously enough. Nevertheless, online service providers that take... Read more
All Clearview AI's Customers Privacy Has Been Exposed in Data Breach
By this point in time, news of data breaches have well and truly lost their novelty. They fall оutside of most people's purview and the engaged internet users that actually care about such news now usually just shrug... Read more
Cybercriminals Distribute the AZORult Information Stealer With the Help of a Coronavirus Map
You'd think that in the age of the internet, the distribution of truthful information, especially regarding events with worldwide impact, would be reliable and quick, but the reality is quite a bit different. Take the... Read more
A New Study Shows That Spyware Attacks Have Increased by 40% in 2019
The number of users infected with stalkerware went up by approximately 40% during 2019, Russian anti-malware specialists at Kaspersky claim. But what does that mean? We live in an interesting time when the very... Read more
Cybercrooks Employ Google Forms to Extract Login Credentials From Unsuspecting Office 365 Users
Barring a few exceptions, attacking an organization has the potential to be much more profitable than attacking a home user. Business enterprises have a lot more to lose. They process company and customer data that... Read more
Nedbank Reports a Data Breach That Could Have Affected 1.7 Million Clients
In early February, IT experts working for Nedbank, one of South Africa's 'big four' commercial banks, learned that some of their customers might have been affected by a data breach. Within a week, they had thoroughly... Read more
Microsoft Launches a Real-Time Coronavirus Tracker
The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the most talked about news event at the moment, and it will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future. The novel coronavirus has already cost the lives of thousands of... Read more
Microsoft Claims That 99.9% of All Account Hacks Can Be Prevented by Adding MFA
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is not (and will never be) perfect. Motivated cybercriminals have already developed a variety of different tools and techniques that help them... Read more
Report Shows That New Account Fraud Has Gone up 28% in 2019
The significance of IT and the Internet for our day to day life can hardly be understated. It has grown exponentially during the past two decades and doesn’t seem like its importance will wane any time soon.... Read more
The Data of 80,000 Transavia Passengers Was Breached in a Cyberattack
If you think about the procedures you go through when you're organizing even mundane activities like air travel, you might suddenly realize how often you need to hand over your data and how little you know about what... Read more
Hackers Have Compromised a DoD Agency in Charge of Secure White House Communications
Several years ago, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) suffered a data breach that exposed millions of records that belonged to government employees. It was a pretty serious attack, and in its wake, another... Read more
MGM Resorts Leaks Private Data of 10.6 Million Clients, Celebrities Included
Catalin Cimpanu, a reporter at ZDNet, was tipped off about a massive data dump that was recently posted on a hacking forum. He took a look and realized that the compromised information belonged to people who had... Read more
