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Have I Been Pwned adds search for leaked Facebook phone numbers
2021-04-06 17:50

Facebook users can now use the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification site to check if their phone number was exposed in the social site's recent data leak. This leak's main component is a Facebook user's phone number, rather than an email address, and thus Have I Been Pwned could not accurately alert a user if they were exposed in the breach.

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online
2021-04-06 01:48

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free-which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobile numbers, locations, email addresses, gender, occupation, city, country, marital status broken, account creation date, and other profile details broken down by country, with over 32 million records belonging to users in the U.S., 11 million users the U.K., and six million users in India, among others.

Adult content from hundreds of OnlyFans creators leaked online
2021-04-05 22:28

After a shared Google Drive was posted online containing the private videos and images from hundreds of OnlyFans accounts, a researcher has created a tool allowing content creators to check if they are part of the leak. While OnlyFans is promoted as a way for celebrities and social influencers to share their content, it is also heavily used to share adult-themed content with fans who pay to access it.

533M Facebook Accounts Leaked Online: Check if You Are Exposed
2021-04-05 21:07

The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 "Add Friend" Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the time. The types of data include Facebook user mobile phone numbers, their Facebook ID, name and gender information.

533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers leaked on hacker forum
2021-04-03 18:48

The mobile phone numbers and other personal information for approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The sold data included 533,313,128 Facebook users, with information such as a member's mobile number, Facebook ID, name, gender, location, relationship status, occupation, and email addresses.

GitHub Arctic Vault likely contains leaked MedData patient records
2021-04-02 08:26

GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities in a data leak attributed to MedData. These rolls of films were then shipped off to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, situated in a remote coal mine, deep under an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway, which is relatively close to the North Pole.

GitHub Arctic Vault likely has leaked MedData patient records
2021-04-02 08:26

GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities in a data leak attributed to MedData. These rolls of films were then shipped off to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, situated in a remote coal mine, deep under an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway, which is relatively close to the North Pole.

GitHub Arctic Vault captures leaked patient medical data for 1,000 years
2021-04-02 08:26

GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities in a data leak attributed to MedData. These rolls of films were then shipped off to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, situated in a remote coal mine, deep under an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway, which is relatively close to the North Pole.

Swiss security provocateur who leaked Intel secrets indicted by US authorities
2021-03-19 04:59

Readers may remember Kottman pointed out holes in a security skills assessment website run by Deloitte, dropped 20GB of Intel secrets onto the web and shamed the security of DevOps tool SonarQube by releasing third-party code created with the project. Illegally accessing computers belonging to a security device manufacturer located in the Western District of Washington and stealing proprietary data.

WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info
2021-03-15 13:05

Now, nearly 24,000 WeLeakInfo's customers are finding that the personal and payment data they shared with WeLeakInfo over its five-year-run has been leaked online. In a post on the database leaking forum Raidforums, a regular contributor using the handle "Pompompurin" said he stole the WeLeakInfo payment logs and other data after noticing the domain wli[.