Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Hacked; SSNs of 143M Americans Stolen

By Waqas Another day, another data breach but this one will haunt This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Hacked; SSNs of 143M Americans Stolen...

Breach at Equifax May Impact 143M Americans

Equifax, one of the "big-three" U.S. credit bureaus, said today a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver's license numbers. In a press release today, Equifax NYSE:EFX said it...

Equifax Says Breach Affects 143 Million Americans

Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, disclosed Thursday afternoon it’s looking into a data breach that may have affected upwards to 143 million Americans. The company said in a statement on its site that cybercriminals managed to exploit an...

Equifax Hack Exposes Personal Info of 143 Million US Consumers

It's ironic—the company that offers credit monitoring and ID theft protection solutions has itself been compromised, exposing personal information of as many as 143 million Americans—that's almost half the country. Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting firm in the United States,...

September 6, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Magellan” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 6, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why the CIO will report...

Military Contractor's Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3

Thousands of resumes and job applications containing the personal information of U.S. veterans, many with top secret clearances, and law enforcement officers were left exposed in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, continuing a trend where poorly configured cloud-storage services are putting people...

Latin American social media giant Taringa hacked; 28M accounts stolen

By Waqas Another day, another data breach This time Taringa, a Reddit-like This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Latin American social media giant Taringa hacked; 28M accounts stolen...

Trove of Private Military Contractor Job Applicants Exposed Online

By Waqas Another day another trove of data goes public This This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Trove of Private Military Contractor Job Applicants Exposed Online...

Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Exclusive — If you have an account on Taringa, also known as "The Latin American Reddit," your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users...

Russian Hacking Tools Codenamed WhiteBear Exposed

Kaspersky Labs exposed a highly sophisticated set of hacking tools from Russia called WhiteBear. From February to September 2016, WhiteBear activity was narrowly focused on embassies and consular operations around the world. All of these early WhiteBear targets were related to embassies and...

Instagram Hacker Puts 6 Million Celebrities Personal Data Up For Sale On DoxaGram

It's now official, Instagram has suffered a massive data breach, and reportedly an unknown hacker has stolen personal details of more than 6 million Instagram accounts. Just yesterday, we reported that Instagram had patched a critical API vulnerability that allowed the attacker to access phone...

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified all of its verified users that an unknown...

Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server

A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind. A French security researcher, who uses online handle Benkow, has spotted the database on an "open and...

Race is On To Notify Owners After Public List of IoT Device Credentials Published

Researchers are in a full-out sprint to notify the owners of a substantial list of connected devices and associated telnet credentials that has been available on Pastebin since June but gone viral since Thursday when it was posted on Twitter. The list has more than 20,000 views as of Saturday...

A week in security (August 14 – August 20)

Last week, we gave some security tips for parents and kids aimed at the new school term. We also took a peek at the inside of the Kronos malware, focusing on how it works and protects itself. And, once again, we spotted a return of Locky ransomware with two new flavors at once, diablo6 and Lukitu...

Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

Leaks of personal and business information from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets are piling up. The latest belongs to Groupize, a Boston-area business that sells tools to manage small group meetings as well as a booking engine that handles hotel room-block reservations. Researchers at Kromtech Securit...

Sony PlayStation Social Media Accounts Hacked; Claims PSN Database Breach

After hacking social media accounts of HBO and its widely watched show Game of Thrones, a notorious group of hackers calling itself OurMine took control over the official Twitter and Facebook accounts for Sony's PlayStation Network PSN on Sunday. After taking over the accounts, OurMine, Saudi...

Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket configured for public access. The data was a backup stored in AWS by Election Systems & Software ES&S, a voting machine and election management...

Game of Thrones and HBO — Twitter, Facebook Accounts Hacked

The Game of Thrones hacking saga continues, but this time it's the HBO's and GOT's official Twitter and Facebook accounts got compromised, rather than upcoming episodes. As if the leak of episodes by hackers and the accidental airing of an upcoming episode of Game of Thrones by HBO itself were no...

How Top Companies Accidentally Leaking Terabytes of Sensitive Data Online

An anti-malware detection service provider and premium security firm has been accused of leaking terabytes of confidential data from several Fortune 1000 companies, including customer credentials, financial records, network intelligence and other sensitive data. However, in response to the...