Security researchers recently discovered an unsecured database that belongs to Avon. The server didn’t have any basic security measures in place, and could be easily accessed. Thanks to this security weakness, researchers at SafetyDetectives unveiled 19 million records of individuals…
Thousands of sensitive data has been stolen by hackers from USA police departments and leaked online – this incident is thus named as BlueLeaks. All of this data has been published online and available to millions of Internet users. The…
Remember the WikiLeaks scandal from 2017? An internal CIA report recently revealed what caused the massive data breach of confidential information to happen. It was the agency’s own inability to secure its systems, which led to the WikiLeaks leak of…
The latest large-scale data leak involves the personally identifiable information of 192 million data records of customers in Brazil. Natura, one of the country’s largest cosmetics companies, had a leaky database hosted on two unprotected US-based Amazon servers. Natura Cosmetics…
An unknown criminal or hacking group has leaked a very large list of Telnet credentials from IoT devices. They are mostly from consumer and commonly used networking hardware — routers, servers, access points and etc. The list was posted on…
There’s a new large privacy incident regarding an unprotected database that affects 49 million business contacts. This database containing sensitive information is currently being sold on an underground hacking forum, ZDNet reports. It seems that the data comes from LimeLeads,…
Cybersecurity researcher known as Lynx has discovered a huge database on the public internet served from a computer with a Chinese IP address. The database contains the personal details of 56.25 million US residents. The details are very sensitive including…
To our greatest concern, the services we use daily often become part of data breaches and data leaks, in which our personal details are exposed to cybercriminals. Banks, airlines, hotels, various organizations put our information at risk in databases that…
Luscious.net, an adult website, has suffered a data breach which has led to the leak of over a million users’ personal information. Leaky, Unprotected Database Exposed Millions of Luscious.net Users vpnMentor researchers were the first to report about an exposed…
Popular threesome and gay dating apps have been breached by unknown hackers. According to the security releases this includes 3fun, Grindr, Recon and Romeo among others, but what’s particularly worrying is that the data of UK Politicians has been leaked…
Probably the world’s largest coin exchanges has begun an investigation after an anonymous user leaked portions of the personal user information on Telegram. Binance have stated that the user leaking the information asked for a ransom to be paid in…
Another large-scale data incident has been reported, this time affecting Instagram users. More specifically, information belonging to millions Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been exposed online. The database was hosted by Amazon Web Services, TechCrunch reported, and it…
Personal and passport information belonging to more than 2.25 million citizens of Russia has been leaked through government websites. Information of government employees and politicians is also exposed, according to findings by Ivan Begtin, co-founder of a Russian NGO known…
This article has been created to teach you how you can successfully test the security of your current VPN service and to see if you are as private as promised. Since most VPNs promise compete privacy protection, some may also…
It’s early 2019, and we’ve already witnessed not one but two record-breaking data dumps. The first one, known as Collection #1, consisted of approximately 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords, and was reported by Troy Hunt…
