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Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up
The database was left exposed without any security authentication meaning it could be accessed by anyone with access to a valid URL.
August 2, 2021
Calgary Parking Authority exposed sensitive data of residents
In total, CPA exposed 502 GB worth of data without any security authentication.
August 1, 2021
Misconfigured AWS bucket exposed 421GB of Artwork Archive data
The trove of data was left exposed unencrypted and without any password or security authentication.
July 18, 2021
Hackers leak scraped data of 87,000 GETTR users
GETTR has been attacked twice since its launch on July 4th, 2021. Here's what Hackread.com's exclusive analysis reveals.
July 8, 2021
US supermarket giant Wegmans exposed sensitive data
It took Wegmans a month to respond and secure its data after the Website Planet security team's responsible disclosure.
June 25, 2021
DreamHost hosting firm exposed almost a billion sensitive records
The database belonged to DreamHost's DreamPress managed WordPress hosting that was left exposed without any security authentication.
June 25, 2021
Hackers leak 260,000 accounts from Pakistani music streaming site Patari
Hackread.com informed Patari of the data breach almost a week ago yet the company did not receive any response whatsoever.
June 23, 2021
Cybersecurity firm exposes 5 billion data breach records
Cybersecurity firm Cognyte fails to secure its database exposing 5 billion records comprise of previous data breaches.
June 20, 2021
Baby clothing giant Carter’s exposed trove of shoppers data
Carter’s failure to implement proper authentication protocols on the store’s parcel tracking pages exposed data and shoppers to scams.
June 20, 2021
Logistics giant exposes customer data, Lolz at researchers when alerted
At the time of publishing this article; the data belonging to Bergen Logistics was available for public access without any security authentication.
May 24, 2021