Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Starwood reservation system it was acquiring had been hacked, because of a data breach that began long before the two companies became one. DNA testing company data breach impacts personal information. This system has never been used in DDC's operations and has not been active since 2012.".

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

Flipboard said that most of the passwords were hashed with bcrypt, while the passworts for users that have not logged into their account since March 14, 2012, were protected with SHA-1 hashing algorithm and uniquely salted. At the time it is not clear the extent of the breach, anyway, the company forced a password reset for all its users.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. How Did the Data Breach Happen? How and Why We Discovered the Breach.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. “On SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Data appears to come from past data breaches, the oldest one dates back as 2012 while the latest one dates April 2020. million phone numbers that are part of Dubsmash data breach that occurred in 2018. million April 2018 Netlog.com (Twoo.com) 57 million November 2012 Dubsmash.com Phone numbers 47.1

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. I started hacking a long time ago.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Threat actors that goes online with the moniker ZeroX claim to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant end it is offering for sale it on multiple hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Saudi Aramco). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. At some point, mindjolt.com apparently also was hacked, because a copy of its database at Constella says the bo3dom@gmail.com used two passwords at that site: lebeda1 and a123456.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. We've assembled eight truly disastrous IT security failures over the past decade, with the goal of finding not just clever hacks, but real mistakes on the part of the victims. 2012: Court Ventures gets social-engineered.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

Remote attackers can exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers access to an object that (1) was not properly allocated or (2) is deleted, as demonstrated by a CDwnBindInfo object, and exploited in the wild in December 2012. is a use-after-free issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Just last week, Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced in addition to Mitsubishi Electric and the NEC defense business division other two unnamed contractors suffered a data breach. SecurityAffairs – Pasco and Kobe Steel, hacking). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. “Our hope is to minimize harm to end users whose data.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In each of these cases, the cybercriminals behind the breaches were after usernames and passwords. Peace stole data from over 360 million Myspace accounts. 29 milliseconds to crack them.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. . “In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. ” states DoJ. ” states DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Cybercriminals are auctioning off access to customer information stolen from an online data broker behind a dizzying array of bait-and-switch Web sites that sell access to a vast range of data on U.S. I also pinged several customer support email addresses tied to the data-broker Web sites that were hacked.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hackers breach 'Fast Company' systems. Fast Company , known for staying ahead of the tech and innovation game with its business news publication, was hacked this week and offensive push notifications were sent out to Fast Company users, specifically through Apple News. See the list of the most downloaded adware apps.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

USA) , protecting major Fortune 500 companies, the data breach may become one of the first meaningful supply chain cybersecurity incidents in the region due to an overlap between an enterprise and the government sector. Threat actors may use the stolen data to target other companies and individuals of interest.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A company spokesman declared that there are no indications of a data breach. Thyssenkrupp is currently the target of a cyberattack — presumably by organized crime” and that “at the present time, no damage has been done, nor are there any indications that data has been stolen or modified.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

The ransomware gang Lockbit claims to have hacked the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) and added the government agency to the list of victims reported on its dark web leak site. “From 1 December 2012 the Revenue Agency incorporated the Territory Agency (article 23-quater of Legislative Decree 95/2012).”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

The NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is available for sale on cybercrime forums since 2012, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. DomainTools further shows this email address was used to register one other domain in 2012: wwlabshosting[.]com, ” reads the press release published DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. Mandiant also reported that 53% of data breaches it has investigated were discovered following a notification by an external party such as law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity vendors.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The modern era of mass data breaches perhaps began in 2009, with the hack of 32 million account credentials held by software developer RockYou, in which a SQL injection attack revealed that passwords were simple held in cleartext in a database table. The following year saw a leak from Gawker Media’s servers, with another 1.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Data from Sephora and StreetEasy data breaches added to HIBP. Developer hacked back Muhstik ransomware crew and released keys. Ops, popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App is affected by a critical RCE since 2012. Hacker breached escort forums in Italy and the Netherlands and is selling user data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

In other cases, they may initiate a Denial of Service (DoS) attack to damage the victim’s public image or try to extort third parties like customers or business partners impacted by the data breach. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2023

Introduced in 2012, FIA WEC features eight endurance races across the world, including its cornerstone stage – 24 hours at Le Mans. Both combined, they contained over 1.1 million files. Among them were hundreds of passports, government-issued IDs, and drivers’ licenses belonging to FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) drivers.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

In September 2017, Equifax faced a data breach. Nefarious actors stole customer data, including names, social security numbers, birthdates, and home addresses. Equifax’s Buzz Score -- an indication of how negative or positive people feel about a brand -- fell 33 points in the first 10 days after the hack was publicized.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 11, 2021

In September 2017, Equifax faced a data breach. Nefarious actors stole customer data, including names, social security numbers, birthdates, and home addresses. Equifax’s Buzz Score -- an indication of how negative or positive people feel about a brand -- fell 33 points in the first 10 days after the hack was publicized.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the guidance of Dan Meacham, VP of Global Security and Corporate Operations and CSO/CISO, the multi-billion dollar organization transitioned from on-premises data centers to the cloud in 2012. Attacks now extend beyond data leaks and can have far reaching business disruptions across an entire supply chain.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W. He was rumored to have hacked into his high school’s computer system, although those rumors were never confirmed. “The Brown regarding nanoparticle behavior, assisting with software to visualize the behavior in 3D.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

The SolarWinds affair, where an actor believed to be Russia used malicious updates in the SolarWinds IT platform and other vectors to hack several government agencies and private firms, came to light when FireEye publicly came forward as a victim. But what if they had opted not to do so? But it would not be the first. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

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