Security News

Facebook confesses 100 devs may have accessed leaked Groups data
2019-11-07 12:48

It shut down that access in April 2018, or at least thought it did. At least 11 improperly accessed data in the last two months.

Time to check who left their database open and leaked 7.5m customer records: Hi there, Adobe Creative Cloud!
2019-10-25 19:13

Info on millions of accounts just out sitting there in the open Adobe has pulled down an Elasticsearch database containing account info of 7.5 million customers that had been left open online.…

U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk
2019-10-21 19:36

The travel reservation data, along with personal details, of hundreds of thousands was discovered in a database exposed online for all to see.

XKCD Forum Hacked – Over 562,000 Users’ Account Details Leaked
2019-09-03 15:34

XKCD—one of the most popular webcomic platforms known for its geeky tech humor and other science-laden comic strips on romance, sarcasm, math, and language—has suffered a data breach exposing data...

Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it
2019-08-16 20:57

Alerted to exposed credentials, users do something about it roughly a quarter of the time Between February and March this year, after Google released a Chrome extension called Password Checkup to...

Democrats and Doctors Behind Latest Wave of Leaked Data
2019-08-06 20:25

Patient medical history and over 6 million email addresses tied to Democrats were detailed in a misconfigured storage buckets over the past few weeks.

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records
2019-05-24 20:47

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003,...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools
2019-05-08 16:30

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since,...

Remember those stolen CIA hacking tools leaked online by the Shadow Brokers? The Chinese had them a year before
2019-05-07 19:39

Or so claims Symantec Months before CIA-built hacking tools were leaked to the public by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, the exploit code was apparently being used by Chinese state...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them
2019-05-07 08:48

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost...