data leak
Should a data breach be the kiss of death for the CEO?
The fact that CEOs have tendered their resignations in the aftermath of public breaches is a clear indication that the executive level is being held more accountable for the …
Ashley Madison-themed blackmail, data deletion scams hitting inboxes
In the wake of the Ashley Madison hack and consequent data leaks, blackmailers and scammers are doing their best to extract as much money and information as it’s …
Stolen Ashley Madison data dumped online, seems legitimate
As you might have heard by now, some 10 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen in last month’s Ashley Madison hack have been leaked by the attackers on the Dark Web and on …
UK job recruiters network hit by hacker, user info dumped online
TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement), the largest network of independent recruiters in the UK, has been hit by a Saudi Arabian hacker that goes by the online handle JM511.The …
Hacker steals Bitdefender customer info, blackmails company
A hacker has managed to access a database containing usernames and passwords of customers of Romanian AV maker Bitdefender, and has tried to blackmail the company into paying …
Ashley Madison hacked, info of 37 million users stolen
Popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked, and personal information and financial records of 37 million of its users has apparently been compromised by the …
More of Hacking Team’s capabilities and questionable actions revealed
The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees’ and management’s unguarded opinions about various …
Two more Flash 0-day exploits found in Hacking Team leak, one already exploited in the wild
Exploits for two more Adobe Flash 0-days have been found in the leaked Hacking Team data. The existence of the vulnerabilities has been acknowledged by Adobe with a security …
Sensitive info of over 21.5M people, including SSNs and fingerprints, stolen in OPM hack
The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revealed on Thursday the full extent of the information stolen in the two data breaches it suffered in 2014.In the first …
Hacking Team’s Flash 0-day exploit used against Korean targets before it was leaked
The Adobe Flash zero-day (CVE-2015-5119) exploit found in the Hacking Team’s leaked data has already been added to several exploit kits, but Trend Micro researchers have …
Flash 0-day exploit found in Hacking Team’s leaked data exploited by criminals
Human rights and privacy activists and journalists are actively reviewing the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach.Reporters of The Intercept have concentrated on going …
Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak
Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies? A hacker …