Latest Data Breach news

UK Water Supplier Loses £500,000 in Sophisticated Scam

An unnamed UK-based regional water supply company lost over £500,000 ($645,000) in a sophisticated scam that involved social engineering, an inside man, and international bank transfers.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 10, 2017
- 06:55 PM
- 0
Tech News Brief: Twitter's New Avatars, CodePlex Shuts Down, IAAF & NY Post Hacked

A quick round-up of various stories going on in tech right now
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 03, 2017
- 10:56 AM
- 2
Hackers Breached Department of Labor Job Seekers Portal

Hackers have breached America's Job Link Alliance (AJLA), a job portal offered by the Department of Labor (DOL), and stolen personal details from an undisclosed number of job seekers.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 27, 2017
- 05:58 AM
- 0
US Charges Four Hackers in Yahoo 2014 Security Breach, Including Two FSB Agents

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged four suspects today for orchestrating the 2014 Yahoo data breach during which attackers stole details for over 500 million Yahoo users.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 15, 2017
- 01:24 PM
- 1
LeakedSource Clone Pops Up on Russian Domain

A website surfaced online today, posing to be the infamous LeakedSource data hoarding service, which went down shrouded in mystery at the end of January 2017.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 05, 2017
- 07:15 PM
- 0
Yahoo CEO Gives Annual Bonus to Employees After Company Confirms New Hacks

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced she'll forgo her annual bonus ($2 million) and equity grant ($14 million), which she'll be redistributing to Yahoo employees instead.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 02, 2017
- 06:03 AM
- 0
Database Ransom Attacks Hit CouchDB and Hadoop Servers

For the past week, unknown groups of cyber-criminals have taken control of and wiped data from CouchDB and Hadoop databases, in some cases asking for a ransom fee to return the stolen files, but in some cases, destroying data just for fun.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 18, 2017
- 05:45 PM
- 0
Attacks on Phones of Bitcoin Moguls Continue with Recent KeepKey Security Breach

On the last day of 2016, KeepKey, a vendor of Bitcoin hardware wallets, has notified users of a security breach that inadvertently exposed some of its customers' details.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 03, 2017
- 08:10 AM
- 0
Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach

Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform's community forums. The breach took place last Friday, on December 16. The database backup the attacker managed to get his hands on was taken on April 2016.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 20, 2016
- 05:50 AM
- 1
Yahoo Admits to Second Data Breach That Exposed Over 1 Billion User Records

Yahoo Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Bob Lord admitted today that Yahoo suffered a second data breach during which an unknown third-party had stolen information on more than one billion Yahoo users.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 14, 2016
- 07:15 PM
- 5
DailyMotion Allegedly Hacked, 85 Million User Accounts Stolen

An unknown hacker has supposedly breached video sharing platform DailyMotion and stolen details for 87.6 million accounts, belonging to approximately 85 million users, according to data breach index website LeakedSource.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 05, 2016
- 02:15 PM
- 1
Europol Suffers Data Breach as Employee Takes Home Files on Terrorist Suspects

Reporters from a Dutch television station said today they've discovered files from Europol investigations into possible terrorist suspects on an unprotected hard drive connected to the Internet.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 30, 2016
- 06:15 PM
- 0
Personal Details for 134,386 US Sailors Exposed by Navy Contractor

The US Navy announced last night that one of its contractors had lost the personal details for 134,386 current and former US sailors.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 24, 2016
- 06:46 AM
- 0
Hacker Group Breaches Mega.nz Servers

A hacking group using the name Amn3s1a Team has dumped data online that they claim to have stolen from several Mega.nz servers. In a statement released following the public data dump, Mega Chairman Stephen Hall confirmed the incident but said no user data was compromised.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 18, 2016
- 04:40 AM
- 2
412 Million User Records Stolen From Adult Friend Finder Parent Company

FriendFinder Networks, the company behind 49,000 adult-themed websites, has been hacked and data for 412,214,295 users has been changing hands in hacking netherworlds for the past month.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 14, 2016
- 04:45 AM
- 0
SEC Documents Show Yahoo Knew of Massive Data Breach Since 2014

Documents filed by Yahoo yesterday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveal that at least some Yahoo employees knew since 2014 of the massive security incident through which an unknown attacker stole details of 500 million users.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 10, 2016
- 01:00 PM
- 1