Latest Data Leak news

Razer investigates data breach claims, resets user sessions

Gaming gear company Razer reacted to recent rumors of a massive data breach with a short statement on Twitter, letting users know that they started an investigation into the matter.
- Bill Toulas
- July 10, 2023
- 11:00 AM
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Nickelodeon investigates breach after leak of 'decades old’ data

Nickelodeon has confirmed that the data leaked from an alleged breach of the company is legitimate but some of it appears to be decades old.
- Bill Toulas
- July 06, 2023
- 11:03 AM
- 0
Microsoft denies data breach, theft of 30 million customer accounts

Microsoft has denied the claims of the so-called hacktivists "Anonymous Sudan" that they breached the company's servers and stole credentials for 30 million customer accounts.
- Bill Toulas
- July 03, 2023
- 02:38 PM
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Siemens Energy confirms data breach after MOVEit data-theft attack

Siemens Energy has confirmed that data was stolen during the recent Clop ransomware data-theft attacks using a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform.
- Bill Toulas
- June 27, 2023
- 02:11 PM
- 1
Have I Been Pwned warns of new Zacks data breach impacting 8 million

Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) has reportedly suffered an older, previously undisclosed data breach impacting 8.8 million customers, with the database now shared on a hacking forum.
- Bill Toulas
- June 12, 2023
- 01:59 PM
- 3
BlackCat ransomware fails to extort Australian commercial law giant

Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth confirmed to local media outlets that its network was hacked after the ALPHV ransomware gang began leaking data they claim was stolen from the company.
- Bill Toulas
- June 09, 2023
- 11:11 AM
- 1
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ransomware attack hits 2.5 million people

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) has disclosed that a ransomware attack it suffered in April 2023 impacted 2,550,922 people, with the threat actors also stealing their sensitive data from compromised systems.
- Bill Toulas
- June 01, 2023
- 01:02 PM
- 3
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
- 0
MCNA Dental data breach impacts 8.9 million people after ransomware attack

Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental has published a data breach notification on its website, informing almost 9 million patients that their personal data were compromised.
- Bill Toulas
- May 29, 2023
- 09:49 AM
- 1
Hot Pixels attack checks CPU temp, power changes to steal data

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a novel attack called "Hot Pixels," which can retrieve pixels from the content displayed in the target's browser and infer the navigation history.
- Bill Toulas
- May 27, 2023
- 10:08 AM
- 1
BlackByte ransomware claims City of Augusta cyberattack

The city of Augusta in Georgia, U.S., has confirmed that the most recent IT system outage was caused by unauthorized access to its network.
- Bill Toulas
- May 26, 2023
- 09:27 AM
- 0
Arms maker Rheinmetall confirms BlackBasta ransomware attack

German automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall AG confirms that it suffered a BlackBasta ransomware attack that impacted its civilian business.
- Bill Toulas
- May 23, 2023
- 12:02 PM
- 0
Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online

Luxottica has confirmed one of its partners suffered a data breach in 2021 that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers after a database was posted this month for free on hacking forums.
- Bill Toulas
- May 19, 2023
- 09:37 AM
- 3
Ransomware gang steals data of 5.8 million PharMerica patients

Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.
- Bill Toulas
- May 15, 2023
- 02:10 PM
- 0
Airline exposes passenger info to others due to a 'technical error'

airBaltic, Latvia's flag carrier has acknowledged that an 'internal technical error' exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic passengers.
- Ax Sharma
- May 15, 2023
- 11:04 AM
- 0
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
- 3
GitHub now can auto-block token and API key leaks for all repos

GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 09, 2023
- 05:42 PM
- 0
Intel investigating leak of Intel Boot Guard private keys after MSI breach

Intel is investigating the leak of alleged private keys used by the Intel BootGuard security feature, potentially impacting its ability to block the installation of malicious UEFI firmware on MSI devices.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 08, 2023
- 01:31 PM
- 5
Kodi discloses data breach after forum database for sale online

The Kodi Foundation has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole the organization's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages and attempted to sell it online.
- Bill Toulas
- April 11, 2023
- 12:31 PM
- 0
Latitude Financial data breach now impacts 14 million customers

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is warning customers that its data breach is much more significant than initially stated, taking the number of affected individuals from 328,000 to 14 million.
- Bill Toulas
- March 28, 2023
- 09:50 AM
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