Security News

How to check if your info was exposed in the Facebook data leak
2021-04-04 18:28

Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned can now be used to check if your personal information was exposed in yesterday's Facebook data leak that contains the phone numbers and information for over 500 million users. Troy Hunt has added the leaked data to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service to help users determine if a Facebook member's data was exposed in the leak.

Ransomware gang leaks data from Stanford, Maryland universities
2021-04-03 13:31

Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. Data stolen in the attack targeting Stanford Medicine's Accellion server includes names, addresses, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial information, reported the Stanford Daily.

Wi-Fi slinger Ubiquiti hints at source code leak after claim of ‘catastrophic’ cloud intrusion emerges
2021-04-01 04:58

Wi-Fi kit-slinger Ubiquiti has suggested the attacker that accessed some of its cloud-hosted systems in January 2021 may have made off with source code and employee logins, not the customer data it initially warned could be in peril. Ubiquiti has not said when the external experts decided customer data was untouched.

India payment app MobiKwik denies data leak, says customers may have posted own data to Dark Web
2021-03-31 02:56

Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a message from the company, dated March 30.

Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police
2021-03-25 08:35

A security engineer and ex-contributor to an open systems non-profit organization recently reported a data leak to the organization. On discovering this GitHub repository which, the engineer says, was public since at least 2019, the engineer privately reported it to Apperta, and got thanked by them.

Engineer reports data leak to Apperta, hears from the police
2021-03-25 08:35

A security engineer and ex-contributor to an open systems non-profit organization recently reported a data leak to the organization. On discovering this GitHub repository which, the engineer says, was public since at least 2019, the engineer privately reported it to Apperta, and got thanked by them.

Ransomware gang leaks data stolen from Colorado, Miami universities
2021-03-23 20:20

Grades and social security numbers for students at the University of Colorado and University of Miami patient data have been posted online by the Clop ransomware group. The ransomware gang then contacted the organizations and demanded $10 million in bitcoin or they would publish the stolen data.

US Charges Swiss ‘Hacktivist’ for Data Theft and Leaks
2021-03-19 03:09

The Justice Department has charged a Swiss hacker with computer intrusion and identity theft, just over a week after the hacker took credit for helping to break into the online systems of a U.S. security-camera startup. Swiss authorities said they had raided Kottmann's home in Lucerne late last week at the request of U.S. authorities.

Zoom Screen-Sharing Glitch ‘Briefly’ Leaks Sensitive Data
2021-03-18 15:52

A security blip in the current version of Zoom could inadvertently leak users' data to other meeting participants on a call. The flaw stems from a glitch in the screen sharing function of video conferencing platform Zoom.

Hacker leaks payment data from defunct WeLeakInfo breach site
2021-03-16 19:03

The now-defunct WeLeakInfo data breach site has suffered its own data breach after a threat actor leaked the service's payment information and customer info. Last Thursday, a threat actor released an archive of payment processing data used by WeLeakInfo when processing payments through Stripe.