Nebraska Medicine Breached By Rogue Employee

Hospital network Nebraska Medicine has disclosed a data breach after a former employee accessed sensitive patient data – including medical records and Social Security numbers. The Nebraska Medicine network encompasses Nebraska’s largest hospital, Nebraska Medical Center, as well as other location...

Dutch Politician Could Get Three Years in Prison for Hacking iCloud Accounts

Prosecutors in the Netherlands are asking for three years in prison for a Dutch politician who hacked into women’s personal iCloud accounts and stole nude photos and other personal digital material belonging to them, then leaked some of it online. The public prosecutor of the North Holland Public...

DHS Plans to Expand Facial Recognition Border Checks

The Department of Homeland Security plans to extend facial recognition checks to all travelers entering and leaving the U.S. – including previously-exempt U.S. citizens. The proposed ruling, outlined in a recent filing that was first reported this week by TechCrunch, signifies a rapid expansion o...

SMS and personal data of millions of Americans leaked online

By Sudais The database leak is yet another set back for Americans. Here's what was in the data and how it may affect victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SMS and personal data of millions of Americans leaked online...

Insecure Database Exposes Millions of Private SMS Messages

Tens of millions of SMS messages have been found on an unprotected database, putting the private data of hundreds of millions of people in the United States at risk for theft or exposure and leaving a communications company open for potential intrusion, security researchers discovered. Noam Rotem...

Private details of Palo Alto Networks employees leaked online

By Waqas Palo Alto Networks, the renowned cyber security firm, has suffered an unusual data breach. Here's what happened... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Private details of Palo Alto Networks employees leaked online...

Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach Exposing Users' Account Info

If you have ever registered an account with the official Magento marketplace to bought or sold any extension, plugin, or e-commerce website theme, you must change your password immediately. Adobe—the company owning Magento e-commerce platform—today disclosed a new data breach incident that expose...

Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach Exposing Users' Account Info

If you have ever registered an account with the official Magento marketplace to bought or sold any extension, plugin, or e-commerce website theme, you must change your password immediately. Adobe—the company owning Magento e-commerce platform—today disclosed a new data breach incident that expose...

SDKs Misused to Scrape Twitter, Facebook Account Info

Twitter and Facebook are warning of software development kits SDKs that could be embedded within a mobile application and used to harvest personal user information. The SDKs, which the tech giants said are maintained by oneAudience and MobiBurn, could be used by mobile app developers to craft...

Facebook & Twitter suffer data breach via third-party developers

By Sudais Another day another breach involving Facebook, Twitter, and third-party developers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook & Twitter suffer data breach via third-party developers...

Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

DISCLAIMER: This post is not partisan, but rather focuses on risk assessment based on history and what threats we are facing in the future. We do not endorse any healthcare plan style in any way, outside of examining its data security risk. For many folks, the term ‘Healthcare for All’ brings up ...

PoS Malware Exposes Customer Data of Catch Restaurants

Popular NYC restaurants Catch NYC, Catch Roof and Catch Steak discovered and removed malware on their point-of-sale PoS systems — but not before it exposed credit-card information from unknowing diners. Catch Hospitality Group, which owns the three NYC hotspots, said in a data-breach notice this...

Grammarly: Unauthenticated users can access all food.grammarly.io user's data

Summary: The food.grammarly.io site uses the Meteor framework, which uses publications and methods to communicate between the backend and frontend. Although the site seems to require being authenticated as a Grammarly employee to use it, most methods and publications work without being...

Database with 1.2 billion people’s data leaked online without password

By Sudais In total, the database was home to over 4 terabytes of data sitting in plain sight for public access. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Database with 1.2 billion people's data leaked online without password...

OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website. The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via...

OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website. The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via...

1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server

Here's the next jumbo data leak, complete with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles...

Hackers access customer data in latest T-Mobile data breach

By Waqas This will be the second time when hackers have targeted T-Mobile in two years. Find out what data has been accessed by hackers this time... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers access customer data in latest T-Mobile data breach...

T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Wireless Customers

Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection. The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some...

Apache Solr Bug Gets Bumped Up to High Severity

A bug impacting the Linux enterprise-search platform called Apache Solr has been revised from low to high-severity after researchers discovered a new remote code execution exploit. The warning comes from Tenable, which is reporting that the newly-identified default configuration vulnerability cou...