Update: Acronis responds to claimed hack
Acronis confirms a 12.2 GB data leak. Earlier, a popular hacker forum announced the data breach.
In a statement to The Register, Acronis' CISO confirmed that the systems were indeed compromised. The damage was reportedly limited to a single customer. No access was gained to any other data held a... Read more
Acer confirms 160 GB data leak
Acer has confirmed a 160 GB data leak of documents from repair employees. The data leak became public after cybercriminals posted an example on a hacker forum.
According to BleepingComputer, cybercriminals recently managed to capture a large amount of data from the computer manufacturer. The dat... Read more
Twitter refutes reports of massive data breach
The social media giant claims the alleged data leak of 200 million users was not stolen by exploiting its systems.
This week Twitter officially responded to accusations of an enormous dataset of user email addresses being stolen from its systems and subsequently sold online.
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Cybercriminals sell data of 400 million Twitter users
Cybercriminals are selling the public and private data of 400 million Twitter users on a hackers forum. They are asking 188,000 euros ($200,000).
According to the security news website, cybercriminals, under the name Ryushi, have put the Twitter data up for sale on the hacking forum Breached. T... Read more
VPNs on iOS devices allegedly leak network traffic
Research proves that VPNs running on Apple devices keep the connection insecure and open, leading to data exposure.
Earlier this week, a security researcher revealed that iOS devices do not fully secure the network traffic and connection through VPNs as one would expect.
According to a tech s... Read more
HubSpot was hacked, data of companies leaked
HubSpot has been hit by a hacking attack. Hackers managed to steal data from about 30 customers. Especially crypto companies were affected.
According to the supplier of CRM solutions, hackers managed to penetrate the systems via a compromised account of an employee. This gave them access to cust... Read more
Fujitsu admits its stolen data is being sold on the dark web
Marketo gang has announced Fujitsu on their victim list.
A group called Marketo is selling data stolen from Fujitsu on the dark web. On August 26, the criminal Marketo gang wrote on its leak site that it had 4 GB of stolen data and was selling it. They provided samples of the data and claimed th... Read more
Misconfiguration in Microsoft Power Apps exposed 38 million records
There seems to be no end in sight regarding the exposure of sensitive data due to misconfigurations. Microsoft's Power Apps platform exposed 38 million records to the general public on the open web due to misconfiguration, according to newly released cybersecurity research.
The data leaks result... Read more
Facebook wants to normalise news about leaks, new data leak surfaces
Facebook wants to deflect attention from its recent data breach by creating an image that scraping incidents occur across the industry. Meanwhile, a new tool has surfaced that can retrieve the email addresses of Facebook users.
The new media strategy is was leaked from an internal email held by ... Read more
Irish privacy watchdog starts investigation into Facebook incident
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland will investigate the Facebook incident from earlier this month. In the the incident, data from more than half a billion users was posted online.
According to the privacy watchdog, one or more provisions of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 ... Read more