Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. ” reported CBA.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Quidd , the online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, discloses a data breach in has suffered in 2019, it is also recommending users to change their passwords. One threat actor responded to the post stating that he has already cracked, or decrypted, nearly a million password hashes.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

The company has over 4200 employees and accounts for over 90 million active users every month. The hacker has shared 15 million user records calling for action in cracking the passwords that are hashed using the SHA2-384 hashing algorithm. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The leaked records included a login name, full name, MD5 hashed password, email address, phone number, zip, and other data related. The company has notified impacted users via email, it admitted to having recently discovered the data breach, in response to the incident it has forced a password reset. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. A search on jesus.fn.christ@gmail.com at Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks compromised databases, shows this email address is tied to an account at the fundraising platform omaze.com, for a Brian Shotliff from Chesterland, Ohio. com on Mar.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. accounts back in 2018. The man accessed the users’ victim accounts, using cracked passwords, but in some cases, he also used internal Yahoo! systems for access to the accounts. A former Yahoo!

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

Word is spreading of a compromise claimed to have accessed around 69 million user accounts. Back in 2014, “tens of millions” of Neopets accounts were said to have been traded on underground forums. In 2020, there were claims of ways to potentially gain access to user accounts. Neopets also addressed this.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Hackers have breached the online learning platform Unacademy and are selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Wizcase experts discovered a security flaw in the open-source learning platform Moodle that could allow accounts takeover. Anyone who had an account on a given school’s Moodle (with TeX filter enabled) could then take over students’ accounts, professors, and even the accounts managed by the platform administrators.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 26, 2021

This strain of malware dates back as far as 2014 and it became a gateway into infected machines for other strains of malware ranging from banking trojans to credential stealers to ransomware. Change your email account password. Turn on 2 factor authentication wherever available. Keep operating systems and software patched.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

name, mailing address, email address, and phone number) Loyalty Account Information (e.g., account number and points balance, but not passwords) Additional Personal Details (e.g., This isn't nearly as bad as the 2014 Marriott breach -- made public in 2018 -- which was the work of the Chinese government.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Zoom has implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts against security breaches and other cyber attacks. Zoom has announced finally implemented the two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts from unauthorized accesses. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. At the end of March, Linksys issued a security alert warning users of the ongoing attacks and urging them to reset the passwords. “In Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Linksys, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. So once again I sought to re-register as myself at Experian.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2020

Japanese gaming giant Nintendo has confirmed that hackers have breached 300,000 accounts since early April, financial data were not exposed. The Japanese video game giant Nintendo has admitted that threat actors have breached 300,000 accounts since early April. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Instagram has suffered a serious security leak that might have exposed user’s passwords, revealed The Information website. Instagram notified some of its users that it might have accidentally exposed their password due to a security glitch. Alleged attackers modified personal information making impossible to restore the accounts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019. Use 2FA if you can.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, including usernames , hashed passwords, first and last names, gender information, and city of residenc.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Researcher Troy Hunt is credited for tipping image sharing site Imgur off to a 2014 breach of 1.7 million user accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

Experts discovered an Android Trojan, dubbed Cookiethief , that is able to gain root access on infected devices and hijack Facebook accounts. Besides various settings, web services use them to store on the device a unique session ID that can identify the user without a password and login.” ” continues Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft revealed that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking. Microsoft discovered that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking because of using of compromised passwords. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were leaked online. Microsoft launched an investigation into the claims that its GitHub account has been hacked. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The three most common forms of attack on web apps were phishing (to lure users into revealing their passwords), brute force attacks to crack passwords, and SQL injections. accounting for the biggest number of incidents by far – 54% of incidents compared to the next highest which was South Korea at just 6%.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. The company confirmed that records were accessed by an unauthorized party, but pointed out that exposed data information did not contain passwords or personal financial data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2019

Other problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored m illions of Instagram users’ passwords in plaintext. Million email accounts without permission. The passwords were stored in plain text on internal data storage systems, this means that they were accessible only by employees. ” reads the updated s tatement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted MD5).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. Not even a password manager. I love beer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit already notified the impacted ‘My Account’ users of the security breach via emails and forced them to reset passwords. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2019

Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). ” reads the study published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

names, email addresses, and hashed passwords) from the company portal Dell.com, from support.dell.com websites. As a precautionary measure, Dell forced reset passwords for all accounts on Dell.com website, the company also announced additional measures to mitigate potential effects of the incident. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Facebook paid a $25,000 bounty for a critical cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts simply by tricking users into clicki on a link. Once the attacker has added his email address or phone number to an account, he can start a password reset. ” wrote the expert.

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