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Swachh City Platform Suffers Data Breach Leaking 16 Million User Records
2022-09-29 10:12

A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report shared by security firm CloudSEK with The Hacker News.

Week in review: Revolut data breach, ManageEngine RCE flaw, free Linux security training courses
2022-09-25 08:30

Critical ManageEngine RCE flaw is being exploitedThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added CVE-2022-35405, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. 3 free Linux security training courses you can take right nowLearning how to effectively navigate and interact with Linux can be an important part of your learning journey in cybersecurity.

Revolut data breach: 50,000+ users affected
2022-09-20 10:15

Revolut, the fintech company behing the popular banking app of the same name, has suffered a data breach, which has been followed by phishing attacks aimed at taking advantage of the situation. A few days later, some users received an alert via email saying their account was affected following a cyberattack.

American Airlines discloses data breach after employee email compromise
2022-09-19 21:50

American Airlines has notified customers of a recent data breach after attackers compromised an undisclosed number of employee email accounts and gained access to sensitive personal information. American Airlines discovered the breach on July 5th, immediately secured the impacted email accounts, and hired a cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate the security incident.

New York ambulance service discloses data breach after ransomware attack
2022-09-17 14:12

Empress EMS, a New York-based emergency response and ambulance service provider, has disclosed a data breach that exposed customer information. According to the notification, the company suffered a ransomware attack on July 14, 2022.

Massive Data Breach at Uber
2022-09-16 14:07

The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber's internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York Times. "They pretty much have full access to Uber," said Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs who corresponded with the person who claimed to be responsible for the breach.

U-Haul reports data breach, customers’ info exposed
2022-09-13 11:24

U.S. moving and storage rental company U-Haul has suffered a data breach due to an unauthorized person having accessed an unspecified number of rental contracts, U-Haul's parent company Amerco has revealed in a last week.It is not known have many customers have been affected, but apparently their payment card information is safe - the person had access "Only" to customers' name, driver's license or state identification number.

U-Haul discloses data breach exposing customer driver licenses
2022-09-12 20:28

Moving and storage giant U-Haul International disclosed a data breach after a customer contract search tool was hacked to access customers' names and driver's license information. As the company revealed notification letters sent to impacted individuals on Friday, it discovered on August 1, following an incident investigation, attackers accessed some customers' rental contracts between November 5, 2021, and April 5, 2022.

Impact of Samsung’s most recent data breach unknown
2022-09-09 20:04

Impact of Samsung's most recent data breach unknown. Samsung announced on Sept. 2, 2022 its second data breach of 2022.

S3 Ep99: TikTok “attack” – was there a data breach, or not? [Audio + Text]
2022-09-08 18:21

DUCK. I'm doing very, very well, thank you, Douglas! A messy thing that is bugging people is the question of this TikTok thing.