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A billion-dollar US firm caught exposing highly sensitive database online
Another day, another data breach - This time, database of a US firm named has surfaced online containing highly sensitive data.
April 9, 2020
Digital wallet app leaks millions of users’ credit cards & Govt IDs
Another day, another treasure trove of data exposed online. This time, a Digital wallet app leaked highly sensitive data online.
April 5, 2020
“Secure” cloud storage provider exposes customer data in plain-text
A "secure" cloud storage provider not so "secure" for customers after all. Here's what happened and how it puts customers at risk.
March 30, 2020
Plastic surgery tech firm leaks images of 100,000s of customers
Another day, another data breach - This time, a plastic surgery technology company has leaked highly sensitive data and as usual, victims of the breach are unsuspecting customers.
February 18, 2020
PhotoSquared app leaks photos & home addresses of 100,000s of users
Another day, another data breach putting user data at risk - This time, PhotoSquared.
February 15, 2020
AWS hit by massive DDoS attacks that lasted 8 hours
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - was hit by a series of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) resulting in portions of it going offline for several hours.
October 27, 2019
Leaky database exposes tax records of 20 million Russians
According to a report by Comparitech, more than 20 million tax records were found on an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elasticsearch Cluste
October 1, 2019
Database with millions of Instagram influencers’ info leaked online
The leaked database was discovered on Shodan on May 14th. A huge online database containing private contact information…
May 21, 2019
Private data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in plain text
Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it’s Facebook users. It’s just been a year since…
April 4, 2019
Dow Jones’ screening watchlist data exposed online
A database hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and owned by Dow Jones has accidentally been exposed putting…
March 1, 2019