Tag Archives: Data Breach
Preventing Data Breaches: 10 Tips For Businesses
Data breaches are becoming more and more common, with large businesses particularly at risk and here are 10 Tips For Businesses to stay safe.
Stripchat Breach Exposed 200m User Records
Stripchat founded in 2016 is an adult site for live nude cam shows has had its 200m user database exposed online. This data exposure puts both models and users at risk of extortion, violence, and other risks. The database was found on Nov. 5 by a security researcher. It contained about 200 million records from…
Phishing Attack Exposes 447,000 Florida Patients
Phishing Attack Exposes 447,000 Florida Patients. Orlando Family Physicians, LLC began notifying 447,426 patients that it was the victim of a phishing attack on its employee email accounts. Six things to know: On April 15, an unauthorized party accessed the email account of an employee by obtaining their user ID and password through a phishing email,…
LinkedIn Breach Exposes 92% Of Its Users Data
I’m shocked and upset about this LinkedIn breach. This is their second massive LinkedIn breach. It was reported that 700M users were effected in this breach, which is more than 92% of the total 756M users. The database is found for sale on the dark web, with records including phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data,…
Zynga.com maker of Words with Friends data is on the Dark Web
Zynga.com, maker of Words with Friends suffered a data breach in December that included 228m records and that data has recently surfaced on the Dark Web. In the past you may have signed up for Words with Friends and other zynga.com created games and provided the information to a service that is in some way…
Facebook Exposed 267M Users Phone Numbers
Researchers have found a database which exposes the names, phone numbers and Facebook user IDs of 267M of the Facebook users. This database was left unsecured on the web for nearly two weeks before it was removed. The Data Exposed In total 267,140,436 records were exposed. Most of the affected users were from the United…
Disney+ Accounts Hacked And Ready For Sale
During the first week Disney+ Accounts have been Hacked and now ready for sale on the dark web. Users were complaining and reporting losing access to their accounts and unable to stream on twitter when the flags were raised. It was reported that the hackers were logging them out of all devices, and then changing the…
Web.com Breach Exposed Account Information
Web.com suffered a breach and exposed account information. The recent data breach impacts user account information and customers within Network Solutions and register.com the company explained in an online notification. What Happened? The web.com breach occurred in August 2019, the hacker illegally accessed some data. “On October 16, 2019, Web.com determined that a third-party gained unauthorized…
Adobe Users Compromised Due To Public Accessible Database
Around 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud users details are now available on the dark web. Researcher Bob Diachenko uncovered the compromised database which could be tapped without a password or any other authentication; offering an attacker access to email addresses, account information and which Adobe products that users purchased. They were quickly made aware but…
Government Database On 92M Brazilians Found For Sale
A Government Database on 92 million Brazilians was found for sale on a dark web forum. Following a tip-off from a analyst known as Breach Radar, a BleepingComputer reporter investigated the auction of an alleged government database containing the personal information. It was found that the seller called X4Crow was claiming that the database includes…