Latest Data Leak news

Shadow PC warns of data breach as hacker tries to sell gamers' info

Shadow PC, a provider of high-end cloud computing services, is warning customers of a data breach that exposed customers' private information, as a threat actor claims to be selling the stolen data for over 500,000 customers.
- Bill Toulas
- October 12, 2023
- 08:13 AM
- 0
D.C. Board of Elections confirms voter data stolen in site hack

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) is currently probing a data leak involving an unknown number of voter records following breach claims from a threat actor known as RansomedVC.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 06, 2023
- 07:07 PM
- 4
Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack

23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack.
- Bill Toulas
- October 06, 2023
- 11:48 AM
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MGM Resorts ransomware attack led to $100 million loss, data theft

MGM Resorts reveals that last month's cyberattack cost the company $100 million and allowed the hackers to steal customers' personal information.
- Bill Toulas
- October 06, 2023
- 09:53 AM
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Sony confirms data breach impacting thousands in the U.S.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
- Bill Toulas
- October 04, 2023
- 08:04 AM
- 2
Modern GPUs vulnerable to new GPU.zip side-channel attack

Researchers from four American universities have developed a new GPU side-channel attack that leverages data compression to leak sensitive visual data from modern graphics cards when visiting web pages.
- Bill Toulas
- September 27, 2023
- 10:06 AM
- 3
Pizza Hut Australia warns 193,000 customers of a data breach

Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal information.
- Bill Toulas
- September 21, 2023
- 11:50 AM
- 0
Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage

The Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked dozens of terabytes of sensitive data starting in July 2020 while contributing open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 18, 2023
- 11:18 AM
- 3
Dymocks Booksellers suffers data breach impacting 836k customers

Dymocks Booksellers is warning customers their personal information was exposed in a data breach after the company's database was shared on hacking forums.
- Bill Toulas
- September 08, 2023
- 01:13 PM
- 0
Insurer fined $3M for exposing data of 650k clients for two years

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) has fined Trygg-Hansa 35 million Swedish krona ($3,000,000) for exposing the sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of customers on its online portal.
- Bill Toulas
- September 04, 2023
- 01:51 PM
- 2
Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum

The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 22, 2023
- 06:50 PM
- 3
Microsoft Visual Studio Code flaw lets extensions steal passwords

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor and development environment contains a flaw that allows malicious extensions to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credential managers.
- Bill Toulas
- August 08, 2023
- 05:49 PM
- 1
Clop ransomware now uses torrents to leak data and evade takedowns

The Clop ransomware gang has once again altered extortion tactics and is now using torrents to leak data stolen in MOVEit attacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 05, 2023
- 11:16 AM
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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.
- Bill Toulas
- August 05, 2023
- 10:09 AM
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BreachForums database and private chats for sale in hacker data breach

While consumers are usually the ones worried about their information being exposed in data breaches, it's now the hacker's turn, as the notorious Breached cybercrime forum's database is up for sale and member data shared with Have I Been Pwned.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 27, 2023
- 05:36 PM
- 0
8 million people hit by data breach at US govt contractor Maximus

U.S. government services contractor Maximus has disclosed a data breach warning that hackers stole the personal data of 8 to 11 million people during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- July 27, 2023
- 10:15 AM
- 0
NATO investigates alleged data theft by SiegedSec hackers

NATO has confirmed that its IT team is investigating claims about an alleged data-theft hack on the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal by a hacking group known as SiegedSec.
- Bill Toulas
- July 26, 2023
- 12:26 PM
- 0
VirusTotal apologizes for data leak affecting 5,600 customers

VirusTotal apologized on Friday for leaking the information of over 5,600 customers after an employee mistakenly uploaded a CSV file containing their info to the platform last month.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 21, 2023
- 05:35 AM
- 1
Thousands of images on Docker Hub leak auth secrets, private keys

Researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany published a study revealing that tens of thousands of container images hosted on Docker Hub contain confidential secrets, exposing software, online platforms, and users to a massive attack surface.
- Bill Toulas
- July 16, 2023
- 10:09 AM
- 0
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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