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Hacker Selling Shanghai Police Database with Billions of Chinese Citizen Data
As seen by Hackread.com, the database is currently being sold for 10 Bitcoin (around $200,000) at the time…
July 4, 2022
Scoop: Uganda Security Exchange Caught Leaking 32GB of Sensitive Data
Apart from personal and financial records, the data also included plain-text login credentials including usernames and passwords of…
June 13, 2022
Personal Data of Tens of Millions of Russians and Ukrainians Exposed Online
The trove of data was leaked due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch server and in total it stored 870 million records or 147 GB of data.
March 24, 2022
Anonymous & its affiliates hacked 90% of Russian misconfigured databases
A new report reveals that since the Russian attack on Ukraine, Anonymous and its affiliate groups have compromised…
March 10, 2022
Netlas.io: A new atlas of the Internet
A while ago, I decided to test a new analogue of Shodan — the Netlas.io platform only to find out…
February 22, 2022
Beware of the Attacks of Zombie Botnet
Cyberattacks and security threats can take many forms, but zombie botnets are particularly malicious and can often go…
February 4, 2022
Stripchat database mess up exposes 200M adult cam models, users’ data
StripChat is one of the top five adult cam sites on the internet. Earlier this month, this site suffered a database mess up that leaked sensitive data.
November 17, 2021
Data analytics firm exposed 2m Instagram and TikTok users’ data
The victims of this "data leak" also include celebrities like Alicia Keys, Loren Gray, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Kim Kardashian.
October 21, 2021
Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted.
October 19, 2021
Brazilian marketplace integrator Hariexpress exposed 1.75 billion records
At the time of publishing this article, the data was still exposed and growing as there has been no response from Hariexpress.
October 13, 2021