Category: Data Breaches

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A Cybersecurity Researcher Stole User Information Through A XSS Attack Using Parameter Pollution

A cybersecurity researcher named Hamza Avvan, while scrolling on Twitter finds a motivational tweet that inspired him to do some bug bounty. He quickly logs into his bugcrowd account, searched for a comfortable subject within the capacity of his skills, and chose a target (on which he had already discovered bugs earlier). He starts by…
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More Than 400GB Of Scraped Data Leaked By Chinese Social Media Management Company

SocialArks is a super-fast developing and well-known Chinese social media management company that works towards the problem solving of China’s foreign trade industry regarding marketing, brand building, etc. This company faced a massive data leak of more than 400GB of scraped data that led to the exposure of a huge amount of personal details of…
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Mimecast Certificate That Is Used to Connect With Microsoft 365 securely Has Been Stolen By Hackers

Mimecast is a London-based company that servers cloud-based email management service to Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange who protects email platforms from phishing attacks, spam, malware, etc., in a blog post on Tuesday informed their customers that a threat actor has exploited and breached a certificate that the company serves to some of its…
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Russian Hacker Sentenced For 12-Years In Prison For Hitting JPMorgan Chase And Others With Massive Hacks

A 37-year-old highly skilled Russian hacker (named Andrei Tyurin) was sentenced to prison for about 12 years for executing a worldwide hacking campaign in which he breached networks of JPMorgan Chase, the Wall Street Journal, many financial institutions, brokerage firms, and many other major institutions and stole information of more than 100 million particulars making…
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$10 Million Fine On Ticketmaster For Breaching Competitor’s Business Data

Ticketmaster has admitted that they are ready to pay a fine of $10 million after many employees of the company used stolen passwords to take control over the competitor company’s computer systems in the hope to cut the company off at the knees. The employees accessed the rival company’s data constantly for almost two years…
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Leaked Data of 10 Crore Indian Card Holders Is Being Sold On Dark Web After Juspay Faces a Cyber Attack In August

The data of 10 crore users have been leaked and is being sold on the dark web. The number of users affected by the leaked data can be considered to be the biggest data leak in Indian history. The data was leaked from the servers of Juspay. Juspay is a mobile payments solution company that is…
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Hackers Could Have Accessed Your Private Documents By A Bug In Google Docs

Google Docs is a free web-based application in which anyone can create, modify and manipulate documents online by having an Internet connection and a full-featured browser. Google has a feedback tool across all its services and a bug was discovered in that tool earlier this year. The bug could have let the attackers gain access…
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21 WeLeakInfo Users Get Arrested By UK Police For Buying Breached Personal Data

The U.K. police arrests 21 people who were the customers of a website named WeLeakInfo, which is now inoperative since the arrest. It is said that the website was set to sell personal data, that was breached/hacked from various sites. The arrest was the part of a cyber crackdown that went nationwide. The U.K. NCA…
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$80 Million Penalty on Capital One for July Data Breach

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings accounts. It has been charged with $80 million owing to a data breach that happened in July last year. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) informed about the fine in a Press Release. The OCC has…
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