Here you will find all the articles with the tag: data breach.
Security researcher John Wethington found a database of a smart city that could be accessed via the internet without a password. Wethington sent the details of the database to TechCrunch, hoping that the data would be secured again after publicity. This is an Elasticsearch database with gigabytes o... Read more
5 years ago
Research by Fortinet shows that 74 percent of managers of operational technology (OT) in the industry have had to deal with data leaks in the past twelve months. The observed data leaks resulted in a drop in safety, productivity and turnover, exposure of business-critical data and reputational dama... Read more
5 years ago
An Android app that allows users to find Wifi hotspots has leaked the passwords of over 2 million WiFi routers. According to security researchers, the login details were visible as plain text. This is the WiFi Finder app, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times from Google Play. The app no... Read more
5 years ago
The data of 190,000 Hub users may have been stolen from a data breach, Docker warns in an email shared on Hacker News. According to the company, there has been "unauthorized access" to a database. Docker Hub enables users to create, manage, download and distribute all kinds of Docker images. Docker... Read more
5 years ago
The data of at least 540 million Facebook users - and possibly more - were found to be publicly available through misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances. That's what security researchers from UpGuard found out. Most of the data was leaked through the Mexican media company Cultura Colectiv... Read more
5 years ago
As part of an academic study, researchers scanned thirteen percent of all public GitHub repositories. The many billions of documents scanned showed that more than 100,000 of those repositories contained API tokens and cryptographic keys. Thousands of new repositories leak secrets on a daily basis. T... Read more
5 years ago
A database of 257,287 legal documents was visible on the public internet, without a password. This allowed everyone to access the documents and download sensitive legal material. Some of the documents were marked 'not for publication'. The database was online for about two weeks, and contained unpu... Read more
5 years ago
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to companies operating in the European Union, 59,000 data leaks have been received by the relevant authorities. It is striking that the Netherlands leads the list with no less than 15,400 reported data leaks. This is the conclusion of resea... Read more
5 years ago
Due to an error in the security of a server, a large database of Rubrik's customer information was leaked. The server was taken offline one hour after a report from TechCrunch, the website that drew Rubrik's attention to it. The data was found by security researcher Oliver Hough, reports TechCrunch... Read more
5 years ago
Cyber-attacks have the potential to completely paralyse critical infrastructure. This is one of the greatest risks the world is currently facing, according to the World Economic Forum in a research report on the greatest threats of 2019. In addition to cyber-attacks, there are also data fraud and in... Read more
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