- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25th, 2016
"Hacking" Suspected Behind Theft of India's Submarine Plans
Australian newspaper claims an insider is actually behind it
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 11th, 2016
Researchers Hack Vibrator, and It's Not the One in Your Phone
Device shares your personal data with its manufacturer
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 5th, 2016
New CSS Mix-Blend-Mode Feature Can Reveal Your Browsing History
New cutting-edge Photoshop-like CSS feature has a negative impact on user privacy, revealing browsing history
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 1st, 2016
Data of 200 Million Yahoo Users Pops Up for Sale on the Dark Web
Hacker is asking for $1,800 for the entire data set
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 1st, 2016
Microsoft Disables SwiftKey Word Prediction Feature After Data Leak Rumors
Company says only a small number of users were affected
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 13th, 2016
Misconfigured Server Exposes Alarm System Details for Oklahoma Bank and DPS
Details on locks, RFID systems, and others included
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 7th, 2016
SQLite Vulnerability Could Expose Sensitive Data from Chrome, Firefox, More
SQLite may sometimes choose an unsecured location on the filesystem to store an application's temporary files
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 30th, 2016
Data of 112K French Policemen Put Online in Password-Protected Google Drive File
Disgruntled former employee at the heart of the incident
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 24th, 2016
Ghost Squad Hackers Leak Data of US Military Personnel
All three data dumps amount to 3,415 records
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2016
Hackers Breach US Company and Unwittingly Expose 154 Million Voter Records
Server is down now, but nobody knows if the hacker stole anything, or if somebody else downloaded the data
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 15th, 2016
Hacker Steals 45 Million Records from 1,100 Home, Sports and Tech Support Forums
Over 1,100 support forums and online communities hacked
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 13th, 2016
Over 51 Million Records Leaked from Now-Defunct iMesh File Sharing Service
Data is on sale on the Dark Web, hacker's asking for ~$335
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 9th, 2016
Hacker Selling over 32.8 Million Twitter Plaintext Passwords on the Dark Web
Malware believe to be the source of the data dump
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 7th, 2016
Cambridge Institute Exposed Personal Information on Thousands of Students UPDATED
Details for over 12,000 host families also included
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 4th, 2016
GhostShell Leaks Around 36 Million Records from 110 MongoDB Servers
Hacker only used Shodan to identify his targets
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 3rd, 2016
One in Ten NFS Servers Worldwide Is Misconfigured, Exposes Sensitive Files
Over 18,000 exposed NFS servers found in the US alone
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 31st, 2016
Pacific Gas and Electric Claims Recent Data Breach Only Exposed Fake Details UPDATED
PG&E denies any wrongdoing, says it was only a test server