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Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.

Yes, turns out people still use this voucher biz – who knew? We have a new twist on the "researchers find unprotected public-facing cloud-hosted database" story, as one recently uncovered archive...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a fully managed service that provides a high-performance, immutable,...

An exposed database containing 17 million email addresses exposed a massive fraud scheme impacting vendors like Groupon and Ticketmaster.

Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB storage devices, announced the release of the Central Database version of the Aegis Configurator for both PostgreSQL...

Industrial Supplier DK-Lok's Unsecured Database Accesible Via Internet, Researchers SayIndependent security researchers have found yet another unsecured database accessible via the internet. This...

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.

Baffle, an advanced data protection company, announced it has been certified for the Amazon AWS Database Ready Program, which delivers an easy-to-operate, scaled database platform-as-a-service (DB...

The United States staged a secret cyberattack in June against a database used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to plot attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf, The New York Times reported....

Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn't protected with a password.