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A Data Breach of San Francisco's Pension System May Have Exposed Personal Financial Information of 74,000 Members
The city of San Francisco hasn't had the best few months when it comes to cybersecurity. First, in March, cybercriminals hacked a couple of San Francisco International Airport's websites, and now, the San Francisco... Read more
Here's How Hackers Are Using Google Firebase Storage URLs to Scam People
For cybercriminals, the act of stealing users' login credentials or infecting them with malware is nothing more than business, and like any business, it presents its own set of challenges. Hackers are constantly... Read more
The Joomla Team Announced a Security Breach Caused by an Unencrypted Backup
The developers running Joomla, an open-source project and one of the most popular content management systems in the world, reported a data breach last week. A now-former member of the team uploaded a backup of the... Read more
Minted Finally Fessed up to a Data Breach, but Only After 5 Million Records Were Found Online
Yesterday, Minted, a marketplace where independent artists share and monetize their creations, announced that it had suffered a data breach. 'Outside forensic experts' helped Minted carry out an investigation which... Read more
LiveJournal Leaked 26 Million Records in 2014, and They Are Now Sold on the Dark Web
Even security experts can be wrong sometimes. As some of you may know, for the last few years, they've been arguing that there's no point in changing your password unless you're sure that it has been stolen. The... Read more
The US-Based Home Chef Urges Clients to Change Passwords After a Data Breach Was Revealed
We often talk about how important it is to act quickly in the aftermath of a data breach. Companies not only need to make sure that the cybercriminals have been successfully blocked and the security holes have been... Read more
Hackers Targeted the Minnesota Senate's Server and Accessed a Passwords File
You probably haven't heard the name 'Anonymous' in a while. The Guy Fawkes mask-wearing hacktivists have been unusually quiet for the last few years, but apparently, the unrest that followed George Floyd's tragic... Read more
Customers' Personal Information Might Have Been Exposed in an Amtrak Data Breach
Last week, The National Railroad Passenger Corporation or Amtrak, as it's better known, filed a data breach notification with the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, and it also started sending it to some of its... Read more
The Database of the Largest Dark Web Hosting Provider Daniel's Hosting Has Been Hacked
On March 10, Daniel Winzen, the software developer behind a dark web hosting provider called Daniel's Hosting (DH), found out that his service had been hacked. A cybercriminal had somehow managed to break through DH's... Read more
A 22-Year Old German Hacker Was Caught After Hijacking the Email Accounts of Politicians
Quite a few people tend to think that hiding behind an online moniker frees them to do whatever they want. A 22-year old man from Germany can testify that this is not really the case. His name is Johannes S., but many... Read more
Magecart Malware Scraped Card Data for 8 Months From a British Outdoor Clothing Retailer
Earlier this year, 18 different users complained to PayPal about fraudulent transactions observed on their bank accounts in a relatively short period of time, and after an investigation, the payment processor realized... Read more
40 Million Wishbone App Users' Records Are Sold Online
As we mentioned yesterday, cybercriminals often try to make money from data that was compromised years ago. When Catalin Cimpanu, one of ZDNet's security reporters, found an ad selling the information of Wishbone app... Read more
A Data Breach at Spanish E-Learning Platform 8Belts Affects More Than 150,000 Users Worldwide
8Belts is a Spanish online learning platform that specializes in foreign language courses. It was founded in 2011, and it was partly funded by the EU's European Regional Development Fund and the Spanish government.... Read more
A Data Breach at Payment App Bharat Interface for Money Exposed Millions of Indians' Data
Yesterday, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) issued what has to be one of the most unclear media statements we've ever seen. It's precisely three sentences long. The first one states that NPCI's team... Read more
College Students and Farmers Are the Latest Targets in COVID-19 Scams
The worst thing about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it indiscriminately affects people. It has changed the lives of millions all around the world regardless of their religion, color of skin, occupation, or financial... Read more
Bank of America Reveals a Data Breach at SBA's Paycheck Protection Program
The COVID-19 pandemic has set us a number of challenges, and although we're all pretty sure that we'll overcome them, some of them are presenting quite a few unexpected difficulties. Today's story, for example, will... Read more
A Data Breach at Florida's Unemployment Website Impacts an Undisclosed Number of Users
People who have been left unemployed because of the coronavirus pandemic are in a pretty bad situation. At this point, nobody can say when they'll be able to get back to work, and some of them are already struggling... Read more
A Hacker Known as 'Sanix' Has Been Pinned for 773 Million Stolen Usernames and Passwords
Clearly, some cybercriminals think that hiding behind a nickname is enough to fool law enforcement and evade justice. As a person known as 'Sanix' can tell you, however, this strategy doesn't always work. Yesterday,... Read more
