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Amazon data breach leaks sensitive info of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford
Data of Netflix, TD Bank and Ford was allegedly found exposed to hackers on an Amazon Storage bucket which was owned and maintained by data integration and management company ‘Attunity’. The incident was found when a team of researchers from UpGuard was casually looking for vulnerable points to be accessed on Amazon S3 Storage Buckets […]
Bitglass Security Spotlight: Canada’s Largest Credit Union Suffers Massive Data Breach
This post was originally published here by Will Houcheime . Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: Desjardins experiences data breach exposed by previous employee Emuparadise forum member information disclosed Venmo transactions scraped as privacy settings warning Maryland medical records uncovered The US Customs and Border Patrol claim hacked travelers Desjardins, Canada’s largest credit […]
Data hacking news from Australia
Australian banking corporation Westpac has discovered that a cyber attack has exposed details of more than 98,000 of its customers. And authorities report that the breach occurred when cyber crooks infiltrated into the bank’s PayID feature. PayID is a feature which allows searching a registered account in the bank by typing in a phone number. […]
Human error causes health data breach of 1.6 M Puerto Ricans
A human error caused by information technology vendor Inmediata Health Group is reported to have led to the leak of health data related to more than 1.6 M Puerto Ricans. However, the healthcare services provider says that there is no evidence that the data was scraped and sold on the dark web or used for […]
Data Breach at Freedom Mobile Canada leaks info of 15000 customers
Canada based 4th largest wireless telecommunications provider ‘Freedom Mobile’ has made it official that a security lapse on one its servers has led to the information leak of more than 15000 customers. As the server wasn’t protected by any passwords there is a high probability that hackers or someone from the dark web could have […]
Facebook keeps user info open to hackers on Amazon Servers
We all know that Facebook has been using Amazon Cloud services for a while to store info of the record number of users. Although the social media giant is trying hard to keep most of the data on its premises, some application demands are forcing it to take a big amount of server space on […]
Cyber Attack leads to a data breach of 2.15 million card details of Planet Hollywood
A cyber attack on the parent company of Planet Hollywood named ‘Earl Enterprises’ is reported to have lead to the data breach of more than 2.15 million card details which were later sold on the dark web over a 10-month period. According to the details available to the media, cyber crooks used malicious software on […]
Facebook Cyber Attack impacts 110,000 Australians
Facebook internal documents suggest that more than 110,000 Australians were impacted by a cyber attack launched in September last year on FB servers. The attack is said to have leaked personal info of more than 60,589 users from Australia giving access to details such as their movements, phone number, most recent check-ins, DOB, Education, work […]
Cyber attack on Navicent Health and data breach details
Navicent Health, a Macon, Georgia based Medical Center has released a press statement today that a cyber attack on its email system which took place in July 2018 has compromised patient details that include names, date of births, addresses, medical information like billing and appointment and social security numbers. According to the media update, the […]
Cyber Attack leads to a data breach at Meditab Health Tech Company
California based Innovative healthcare solutions provider ‘Meditab’ received a data breach jolt on Monday this week when Dubai based cybersecurity firm Spidersilk claimed that its security researchers found a susceptibility in the database of the healthcare provider which gave direct access to over six million records summarized since Mar’18 which includes prescriptions medical records of […]
