Datalek Hostinger hits 14 million users
Webhosting company Hostinger has reset the passwords of users. This happened after third parties were able to gain unauthorized access to a database containing the data of several million users.
A company blog post reports that the incident took place on 23 August. Externals were able to obtain a... Read more
Data leakage costs increased by 12 percent over the past five years
The cost of a data breach has risen by 12% over the past five years. This is the conclusion of an annual IBM Security study into the financial impact of data breaches on organisations.
A data breach now costs an average of 3.92 million dollars (3.5 million euros). This is due in part to stricter reg... Read more
Hacker got access to internal Comodo files via leaked password
A hacker has been able to access Comodo's internal files and documents by using an email address and a password that had accidentally ended up on the Internet. Comodo is a security company that issues SSL certificates.
The login details were stored in a public GitHub repository that erases the prope... Read more
Slack reset leaked passwords from incident in 2015
A cyber attack in 2015, recently brought to the attention of Slack, has caused a reset of the passwords of a number of users. Slack was recently notified of a list of passwords that have been captured in this attack, reports Tweakers.
The data breach had been known before, but the assumption was th... Read more
Eight million files leaked from Elasticsearch database
Eight million files are on the street due to a configuration error in the Elasticsearch database of AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The misconfigured database contained information about hotel guests and internal files of hotels, reports SiliconAngle.
Daniel Brown, a W... Read more
AWS S3 server leaks data from Fortune 100 companies
UpGuard security researchers have found data related to a series of Fortune 100 companies on three misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage instances. The instances are owned by Attunity, a data integration and big data management company that was acquired by Qlik in February.
In total, at... Read more
WeTransfer sent files to wrong recipients
WeTransfer had a data breach on 16 and 17 June, the company reports in an e-mail to victims that Tweakers has seen. In the data leak, messages about files sent to customers were also sent to the wrong recipients.
It is not yet known how many users have fallen victim to the data breach and how many ... Read more
“Researchers find large data breaches at Tech Data.
A vpnMentor research team found a large data repository at Tech Data Corporation, a company that offers tech products, services and solutions worldwide. A total of 264 GB of data was leaked.
The data that ended up on the streets included client servers, invoices, SAP integrations and plain-text pas... Read more
‘2.3 billion data files leaked online since GDPR import’.
According to security company Digital Shadows, no less than 2.3 billion data files have been leaked since the introduction of the European privacy law GDPR. The files include login details for business IT systems, customer passport details, bank details and medical information.
As a result, the num... Read more
Hackers steal data from 113,000 other hackers
A group of hackers has attacked a popular forum among a community of its rivals. Nearly 113,000 forum users - including email addresses, hacked passwords, IP addresses and private messages - were stolen.
This is the OGUser.com forum, knows IT Pro. That forum is popular among a community of cybercrim... Read more