First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.
Tag Archives: data breach
Maze ransomware hits US giant Cognizant
The latest company to fall victim to a ransomware attack is Cognizant, a large US IT services company which admitted at the weekend that it had fallen victim to Maze.
Marriott International confirms data breach of up to 5.2 million guests
Marriott International has today announced that it has suffered a data breach affecting up to 5.2 million people. The hotel chain says it uses an application to help provide services to its guests. Beginning mid-January this year, the login credentials of two employees at a franchised property were used to access guest information on this […]
Data of millions of eBay and Amazon shoppers exposed
Eight million customer records belonging to companies including Amazon, eBay, Shopify, PayPal, and Stripe were collected.
Trial for accused CIA leaker ends in hung jury
The US is expected to press for a retrial in the high-stakes trial of Joshua Schulte, suspected of raiding the CIA’s cyber arsenal.
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.
Why ‘free’ Wi-Fi isn’t really free
How much data is too much to give away to get online while you’re waiting at the train station? In the airport? A shopping mall?
Digital piggy bank sevice broken into by cybercrooks
A financial proivider that gives loans but locks them down to turn them into savings… didn’t lock down its own network.
Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all
The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup.
KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims
The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.