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  • By Bogdan Popa
  • November 21st, 2016
Human Rights Foundation Website Hacked, Thousands of Accounts Exposed <em>Updated</em>

Human Rights Foundation Website Hacked, Thousands of Accounts Exposed Updated

SQL injection exposes nearly 20,000 usernames and passwords

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  • By Bogdan Popa
  • November 20th, 2016
Michigan State University Hacked, Personal Info, Social Security Numbers Stolen

Michigan State University Hacked, Personal Info, Social Security Numbers Stolen

Social security numbers of current and former students and employees included in database accessed by hackers

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  • By Bogdan Popa
  • November 20th, 2016
Kapustkiy Breaks into Indian Regional Council Server, 17,000 Users Exposed

Kapustkiy Breaks into Indian Regional Council Server, 17,000 Users Exposed

New day, new security vulnerability found by Kapustkiy

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  • By Bogdan Popa
  • November 18th, 2016
Hacker Breaks into Italian Government Website, 45,000 Users Exposed

Hacker Breaks into Italian Government Website, 45,000 Users Exposed

Kapustkiy managed to hack another government website

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 28th, 2016
Red Cross Blood Donors Info Leaked in Australia's Biggest Data Breach

Red Cross Blood Donors Info Leaked in Australia's Biggest Data Breach

Red Cross left database backups exposed online

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 26th, 2016
DomainTools Warns Customers of User Data Scraping Attack

DomainTools Warns Customers of User Data Scraping Attack

Possible danger to infosec journalists and researchers

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 25th, 2016
Security Firm Tries Desperate Solution to Alert Company of Data Leak

Security Firm Tries Desperate Solution to Alert Company of Data Leak

Here's another case of a company leaving user data exposed online due to its improper MongoDB configuration

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 20th, 2016
Weebly Confirms Data Breach Affecting over 43 Million Users

Weebly Confirms Data Breach Affecting over 43 Million Users

43,430,316 users affected, passwords are safe

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 17th, 2016
Leaky Rsync Server Exposes New Evidence into Inmate's Suicide

Leaky Rsync Server Exposes New Evidence into Inmate's Suicide

... or when a data breach exposes crucial information

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 14th, 2016
Event Organizer Suffers Data Breach After Hacker Steals Mailing Lists

Event Organizer Suffers Data Breach After Hacker Steals Mailing Lists

No financial data compromised, only personal details

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 13th, 2016
Vera Bradley Retail Stores Expose Payment Card Data After PoS Malware Infection

Vera Bradley Retail Stores Expose Payment Card Data After PoS Malware Infection

Retailer was tipped off about the malware by law enforcement

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 12th, 2016
Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case

Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case

Amazon forcibly resets some user passwords

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 11th, 2016
Hacker Steals 58 Million User Records from Data Storage Provider

Hacker Steals 58 Million User Records from Data Storage Provider

Stolen data belongs to Modern Business Solutions customers

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 10th, 2016
Turkey Blocks Dropbox, OneDrive & Google Drive to Hide Recent RedHack Data Dump

Turkey Blocks Dropbox, OneDrive & Google Drive to Hide Recent RedHack Data Dump

Turkey adds GitHub to the ban list, removes Google Drive

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 4th, 2016
Misconfigured Dating Site Database Exposed Details of 1.5 Million "Cheaters"

Misconfigured Dating Site Database Exposed Details of 1.5 Million "Cheaters"

Parent company denies blunder, says exposed data was fake

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 29th, 2016
Latest Theory Says Yahoo Hackers Aren't State-Sponsored, Just Common Crooks

Latest Theory Says Yahoo Hackers Aren't State-Sponsored, Just Common Crooks

InfoArmor claims Yahoo hack is the work of common crooks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 27th, 2016
US Senators Investigating Yahoo As Data Breach Affects Companies, Not Just Users

US Senators Investigating Yahoo As Data Breach Affects Companies, Not Just Users

Data breach breadth larger than initially expected

 
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