Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked. Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investigations, has had 900 GB of its data stolen by ...

Hello Kitty Database of 3.3 Million Users Surfaces

A cache of data including 3.3 million user credentials belonging to Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio surfaced over the weekend. The breach was originally reported in December 2015, but at the time Sanrio denied any data was stolen as part of the breach. The breach was tied to a misconfigured...

On IoT Botnets, Ransomware, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap 2016’s biggest news stories, including the proliferation of IoT botnets, the rise of ransomware, the FBI vs. Apple battle, Yahoo, and a rash of old password breaches. Download: Threatpost2016YearinReview.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client

A database of one billion stolen Yahoo accounts has been sold to at least three different buyers for $300,000 each, and the group selling the data and behind the 2013 intrusion—the largest data breach on record—is a criminal operation, not a state-sponsored attack group as Yahoo claims. Andrew...

Insecure NAS Device Exposes 350 Ameriprise Investment Accounts

A trove of data belonging to Ameriprise Financial was found earlier this month that included Social Security numbers, decryption keys and confidential internal company documents. The breach is related to the use of a network attacked storage device that insecurely backed up data from an internal...

1-Billion Yahoo Users' Database Reportedly Sold For $300,000 On Dark Web

Recently Yahoo disclosed a three-year-old massive data breach in its company that exposed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts, which is said to be the largest data breach of any company ever. The new development in Yahoo!'s 2013 data breach is that the hacker sold i...

CVE-2015-8542

Open-Xchange Guard prior to 2.2.0-rev8 is affected. The getprivkeybyid API allows downloading a user’s PGP Private Key after authentication. The auth parameter contains a hashed password, used as a single point of authentication, and, because id and cid are sequential, an attacker can iterate the...

Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to pay a hefty fine of $1.6 Million for failing to protect account information of 36 Million users, after a massive data breach last year. Yes, the parent company...

Yahoo Discloses Data From 1 Billion Accounts Stolen in 2013

Yahoo today disclosed another mega breach of its systems, this one occurring in August 2013 and resulting in the loss of data associated with more than one billion user accounts. Today’s revelation comes less than three months after Yahoo admitted state-sponsored hackers walked off in 2014 with...

Yahoo Admits 1 Billion Accounts Compromised in Newly Discovered Data Breach

In what believe to be the largest data breach in history, Yahoo is reporting a massive data breach that disclosed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts in August 2013. …And it's separate from the one disclosed by Yahoo! in September, in which hackers compromised as ma...

Jingdong response to data breaches rumors: from 2013 Struts 2 security vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Yesterday the media reported, saying that suspected jingdong 12 G data was leaked, involving the user name, password, email, QQ number, telephone number, ID card, etc. multiple dimensions of information on this, jingdong represented by the preliminary determination, the data from 2013 Struts 2...

DailyMotion Hacked — 85 Million User Accounts Stolen

Another day, another data breach. This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen. Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained 85.2 Million recor...

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

Three, one of UK's biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed. The company admitted the data breach late Thursday, saying that computer hackers gained acces...

Adult FriendFinder Vulnerability Leaves 400 Million Exposed

Account data for more than 400 million users of adult-themed FriendFinder Network has been exposed. The breach includes personal account data from five sites including Adult FriendFinder, Penthouse.com and Stripshow.com. FriendFinder Network did not confirm the breach and is investigating reports...

Over 300 Million AdultFriendFinder Accounts Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot now," has suffered another massive data breach, but this time it is much worse than the last year. Over 300 Million AdultFriendFinder accounts have reportedly been exposed in a massive data breach...

Yahoo / Verizon: A $1B Data Breach Discount?

In July of this year Verizon announced it was going to buy Yahoo for $4.8B. A few weeks later, Yahoo starts investigating a potential data breach of around 200 million records that were for sale on the Dark Web. In mid-September, Yahoo discloses that sometime in 2014, they were attacked and rough...

Optimizing your PCI Compliance Investments

Everybody knows that the cost of a breach is high. Given the fact that the chance of a data breach for all merchants is nearly 1-in-4, its important to not only have PCI compliance in place, but also the right solutions to optimize your compliance spend...

Yahoo Tells SEC It Knew About Data Breach in 2014

Yahoo fessed up in its latest SEC filing that it knew in 2014 that attackers were on its network and stole information from 500 million accounts. The breach was disclosed in September and Yahoo blamed state-sponsored attackers, a claim that was challenged by some experts who instead said a crimin...

Over 1 Billion Mobile App Accounts can be Hijacked Remotely with this Simple Hack

Security researchers have discovered a way to target a huge number of Android and iOS apps that could allow them to remotely sign into any victim's mobile app account without any knowledge of the victim. A group of three researchers – Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau, and Tianyu Liu – from the Chine...

Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police, was believed to be the one responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, according to a statement released by LinkedIn. Now, United States authorities have officially indicted Yevgeniy...