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Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost
30 Nov 2021 04:27 | 10
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Labour Party supplier ransomware attack: Who holds ex-members' data and on what legal basis?
'Anon firm lost your data, don't worry' just makes people more fearful
05 Nov 2021 13:00 | 47
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Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Viscount still helms new firm – while since-deleted posts on firm's Facebook page enrage users
29 Oct 2021 15:27 | 56
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Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach
Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed
20 Oct 2021 09:15 | 12
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3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure
So says Have I Been Pwned's maintainer - but site claims breach only impacted 'handful of users'
14 Oct 2021 16:03 | 8
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Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers
Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw
12 Oct 2021 09:15 | 64
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Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog
Poor securing of Elasticsearch cluster strikes again
05 Oct 2021 13:37 | 51
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Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
21 Sep 2021 23:36 | 5
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Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format
Plus: Police aren't treating breaches as terror offence
07 Sep 2021 10:01 | 141
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Indonesian authorities probe million-record leak from national COVID app
Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege
01 Sep 2021 05:16 | 2
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Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth
Bang out of order
31 Aug 2021 14:19 | 168
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Un-carrier? Definitely Unsecure: T-Mobile US admits 48m customers' details stolen after downplaying reports
Affected users to get free McAfee ID protection, so that's OK then
18 Aug 2021 12:37 | 30
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Singaporean telco leaked personal data of over 57,000 customers
StarHub's breach announcement came a month after discovery of customer file on dump site
12 Aug 2021 04:28 | 1
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Over 100 Taiwanese political figures' messages leaked outta LINE app
Attack turned off encryption function, which made snooping rather easier
29 Jul 2021 04:34 | 6
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Security breaches where working from home is involved are costlier, claims IBM report
Great, it's not like employers need more reasons to haul you back to the office
28 Jul 2021 19:47 | 6
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Misconfigured Azure Blob at Raven Hengelsport exposed records of 246,000 anglers – and took months to tackle, claim infosec researchers
18GB of Dutch fishing supplier's data left in unsecured server
27 Jul 2021 20:49 | 8
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SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube
Has since been recovered, and Scaleway now ships disks with GPS trackers
27 Jul 2021 03:58 | 35
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Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online
One of the worst things that could happen to privacy-focused community
23 Jul 2021 11:29 | 95
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You'll never Guess whose data has been nicked as US fashion firm confirms systems breach
Not the only one either; Spread Group admits to even worse pwnage
13 Jul 2021 14:45 | 16
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Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm
Yesterday's settlement was just one of the bigger firms
07 Jul 2021 17:10 | 2
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British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away
And a third of that's going into the lawyers' pockets
06 Jul 2021 12:58 | 16
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Fashion titan French Connection says 'FCUK' as REvil-linked ransomware makes off with data
Attack on an internal system shouldn't put customers at risk, biz claims
24 Jun 2021 08:30 | 6
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Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
16 Jun 2021 03:14 | 1
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Mensa data spillage was due to 'unauthorised internal download'
Book smarts vs street smarts face-off might have been an inside job, claims egghead chief
15 Jun 2021 09:15 | 114
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Air India admits to data breach impacting 4.5m customers, sat on the news for five weeks
While my SITA gently leaks, customers were unaware their credit card numbers had flown away
24 May 2021 05:58 | 5
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Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens' records
Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart
24 May 2021 02:28 | 12
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NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status
Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website
06 May 2021 18:37 | 41
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Volunteer-run pirate Manga website attacked, loses hashed passwords, has ‘nobody’ to fix the mess
Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack
26 Apr 2021 02:28 | 17
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Atheists appeal to higher power for intercession over alleged sins against privacy
Membership data row ascends to desk of California attorney-general
07 Apr 2021 06:58 | 42
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NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service
Real names, usernames, and what appeared to be SHA-1 hashed passwords* exposed
22 Feb 2021 17:30 | 28
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Atheists warn followers of unholy data leak, hint dark deeds may have tried to make it go away
Rival atheists accused of not believing in privacy law
19 Feb 2021 06:04 | 108
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UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a 'service partner' leaked their data all over 'public software forum'
Compromised info include names, email addresses, DoBs, and National Insurance numbers
22 Dec 2020 13:33 | 37
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45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware
23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research
15 Dec 2020 11:40 | 43
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Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob
Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it
01 Dec 2020 11:30 | 43
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Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field
Hundreds of email addresses exposed, customers predictably less-than-thrilled
17 Nov 2020 04:58 | 16
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Kids' gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel
Tens of millions of usernames and passwords go walkies amid claims of decryption
12 Nov 2020 17:28 | 4
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Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats
Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website
26 Oct 2020 16:50 | 33
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Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses
And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance
01 Oct 2020 04:23 | 11
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Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages
One thing to let people rent your home, quite another to let them access your private comms
26 Sep 2020 00:06 | 9
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Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real
Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts
25 Sep 2020 12:15 | 30
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Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics
Pair of England's unis figure out better way of admitting terrible thing
24 Sep 2020 16:46 | 12
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Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons
Compiled using mostly open-source intel, shines a light on extent of China’s surveillance activities
15 Sep 2020 06:27 | 79
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Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers
Say it ain't Joe?
20 Aug 2020 23:27 | 10
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You weren't hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. Nor because cyber-gurus picked on you. It's far simpler than that
Three little words: Patches, passwords, policies
13 Aug 2020 07:06 | 36
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Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets
When will this madness end?
03 Aug 2020 23:47 | 47
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No wonder Brit universities report hacks so often: Half of staff have had zero infosec training, apparently
Plus: Don't worry, students. The attackers told us they destroyed your data
29 Jul 2020 08:01 | 32
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UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court
Tawdry political scuffle over database access binned for lack of evidence
27 Jul 2020 08:07 | 20
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Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons
Insurer is first biz to be charged in New York for data security negligence after exposing millions of records to the web
23 Jul 2020 22:55 | 20
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Twilio: Someone waltzed into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added dodgy code to our JavaScript SDK for customers
API dev kit remained modified for hours, says source
21 Jul 2020 23:10 | 22
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Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
Perps tried to sell high-profile usernames after possibly perusing private data
20 Jul 2020 06:25 | 71
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Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, No! Logging VPN!'
17 Jul 2020 21:51 | 73
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Step on it, I've got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds
'BlueLeaks' data lifted after web host biz pwned, we're told
22 Jun 2020 22:52 | 18
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Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee
26 May 2020 16:22 | 17
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Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon
Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too
19 May 2020 04:01 | 11
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Papa don't breach: Contracts, personal info on Madonna, Lady Gaga, Elton John, others swiped in celeb law firm 'hack'
Miscreants threaten to leak 756GB of allegedly stolen paperwork
12 May 2020 01:43 | 23
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Frippin' heck: Watch out, chin-stroking prog rock fans. King Crimson distributor Burning Shed says it's been hacked
Crims slope off with a slice of dabatase including emails and encrypted passwords but no credit card deets
21 Apr 2020 15:45 | 10
Roundup
How to make a stranger's insecure 3D printer halt-and-catch-fire – plus more alerts from infosec world
San Francisco Airport websites hacked, VMware patches emitted, etc
13 Apr 2020 16:04 | 24
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Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX documents after contractor refuses to pay
Anti-mortar system specs, legal paperwork, payment forms, and more, dumped online from infected PCs
10 Apr 2020 00:49 | 121
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At the Supreme Court, Morrisons pops data breach liability win into its trolley – but it's not a get-out-of-compo free card for businesses
Vicarious liability now applies to intentional leaks, top court says
01 Apr 2020 12:55 | 22
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Brit housing association blabs 3,500 folks' sexual orientation, ethnicity in email blunder
Please update your contact details in this handy spreadsheet ... oh
25 Mar 2020 10:45 | 52
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