Latest Database news

Ticketmaster sends notifications about recent massive data breach

Ticketmaster has started to notify customers who were impacted by a data breach after hackers stole the company's Snowflake database, containing the data of millions of people.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 28, 2024
- 12:45 PM
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Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected

Dell is warning customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen information for approximately 49 million customers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 09, 2024
- 11:21 AM
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Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords

Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 19, 2024
- 07:25 PM
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Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure

A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on data.
- Bill Toulas
- January 20, 2024
- 11:17 AM
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MySQL servers targeted by 'Ddostf' DDoS-as-a-Service botnet

MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals.
- Bill Toulas
- November 16, 2023
- 03:11 PM
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Spain arrests 34 cybercriminals who stole data of 4 million people

The Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercriminal organization that carried out a variety of computer scams to steal and monetize the data of over four million people.
- Bill Toulas
- October 23, 2023
- 11:01 AM
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Ex-Navy IT head gets 5 years for selling people’s data on darkweb

Marquis Hooper, a former U.S. Navy IT manager, has received a sentence of five years and five months in prison for illegally obtaining US citizens' personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web.
- Bill Toulas
- October 18, 2023
- 04:47 PM
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Johnson & Johnson discloses IBM data breach impacting patients

Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems ("Janssen") has informed its CarePath customers that their sensitive information has been compromised in a third-party data breach involving IBM.
- Bill Toulas
- September 07, 2023
- 11:02 AM
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P2PInfect server botnet spreads using Redis replication feature

Threat actors are actively targeting exposed instances of the Redis open-source data store with a peer-to-peer self-replicating worm with versions for both Windows and Linux that the malware authors named P2Pinfect.
- Ionut Ilascu
- July 31, 2023
- 11:31 AM
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HCA confirms breach after hacker steals data of 11 million patients

HCA Healthcare disclosed a data breach impacting an estimated 11 million patients who received care at one of its hospitals and clinics after a threat actor posted samples of stolen data on a hacking forum.
- Bill Toulas
- July 11, 2023
- 10:59 AM
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- BleepingComputer Deals
- June 11, 2023
- 08:16 AM
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Toyota finds more misconfigured servers leaking customer info

Toyota Motor Corporation has discovered two additional misconfigured cloud services that leaked car owners' personal information for over seven years.
- Bill Toulas
- May 31, 2023
- 10:46 AM
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New hacking forum leaks data of 478,000 RaidForums members

A database for the notorious RaidForums hacking forums has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and security researchers insight into the people who frequented the forum.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 29, 2023
- 09:55 PM
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Toyota: Car location data of 2 million customers exposed for ten years

Toyota Motor Corporation disclosed a data breach on its cloud environment that exposed the car-location information of 2,150,000 customers for ten years, between November 6, 2013, and April 17, 2023.
- Bill Toulas
- May 12, 2023
- 10:50 AM
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PrestaShop fixes bug that lets any backend user delete databases

The open-source e-commerce platform PrestaShop has released a new version that addresses a critical-severity vulnerability allowing any back-office user to write, update, or delete SQL databases regardless of their permissions.
- Bill Toulas
- April 26, 2023
- 03:30 PM
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TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate confirm data breach affecting 20M customers

PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 03, 2023
- 06:24 PM
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Nissan North America data breach caused by vendor-exposed database

Nissan North America has begun sending data breach notifications informing customers of a breach at a third-party service provider that exposed customer information.
- Bill Toulas
- January 17, 2023
- 09:50 AM
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Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by default

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.
- Bill Toulas
- January 06, 2023
- 11:32 AM
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Brave launches FrodoPIR, a privacy-focused database query system

Brave Software developers have created a new privacy-centric database query system called FrodoPIR that retrieves data from servers without disclosing the content of user queries.
- Bill Toulas
- December 22, 2022
- 11:08 AM
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Social Blade confirms breach after hacker posts stolen user data

Social media analytics platform Social Blade has confirmed they suffered a data breach after its database was breached and put up for sale on a hacking forum.
- Bill Toulas
- December 15, 2022
- 10:29 AM
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