Security News
A threat actor has leaked the stolen database for Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin on a hacking forum for free. Over the weekend, a threat actor known as ShinyHunters posted the link to an archive that contains the alleged database dumps for the Buyucoin cryptocurrency exchange.
Bonobos men's clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers' personal information after a cloud backup of their database was downloaded by a threat actor. Bonobos started as an online men's clothing store but later expanded to sixty locations to try on clothes before purchasing them.
The OpenWrt project has revealed that an attacker has managed to access information about its online forum users over the weekend, by compromising the account of a forum administrator. The OpenWrt project oversees the development of OpenWrt, an open-source, Linux-based embedded operating system/firmaware for a variety of routers and gateways, which can also be used on smartphones, laptops and personal computers.
The OpenWRT forum, a large community of enthusiasts of alternative, open-source operating systems for routers, announced a data breach. Forum administrators posted the announcement in a high-visibility area, explaining what happened and the risks to users stemming from exposing their data.
Capcom, the game developer behind Resident Evil, Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers, now says its recent attack compromised the personal data of up to 400,000 gamers. A ransomware attack launched against gaming company Capcom last November keeps getting worse.
Capcom has released a new update for their data breach investigation and state that up to 390,000 people may now be affected by their November ransomware attack. On November 2nd, Capcom suffered a cyberattack by the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation who stated they stole 1TB of data from the company.
American networking tech vendor Ubiquiti is asking customers to change their password because of unauthorized access to some of their information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. "We cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account. The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us," the company explained in an online alert and and notification sent directly to users.
Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers' data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform.
Today, researchers have responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100,000 private employee records of United Nations Environmental Programme. The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories and credentials, which allowed the researchers to clone Git repositories and gather a large amount of personally identifiable information associated with UNEP employees.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, has suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a third-party hosting partner. The Reserve Bank is the central bank of New Zealand and is responsible for creating monetary policy to stabilize prices in the country.