Security Breach

FinalSite suffered a ransomware attack that led to the disruption of thousands of school websites across the globe. FinalSite offers hosting and development services to K-12 school districts and universities. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider claims that it is trusted by...

The UpGuard Research team disclosed that over 1000 misconfigured web apps built with Microsoft's Power Apps accidentally leaked 38M records. The leaked records contained personal information like names, COVID-19 contact tracing, COVID-19 vaccination appointments, email addresses, and several other...

Uber breached the privacy of more than 1 million Australians The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has handed down its determination that Uber breached the privacy of more than 1 million Australians back in 2016. Australia's Information Commissioner and...

Job-matching Institute e2i states that the personal data of 30,000 individuals possibly breached (illegally accessed) because of a malware exploit that aimed at an 'appointed third-party vendor' On March 12, an incident of the data breach was notified. The personal...

Facebook Data Leak: In a massive privacy breach, personal data of about 533 million users from 106 countries have reportedly been leaked online for free on low-level hacking forums. As per reports, several records that contained personal information were leaked....

RiskIQ, a threat intelligence firm RiskIQ stated that they identified a new toolkit that can modify the text and logos on phishing pages in real-time to adjust to victims. The phishing kit, entitled as LogoKit, is meant to be...

On Thursday, Microsoft stated that SolarWinds supply chain hackers succeeded in break into Microsoft's internal network and obtained access to a few internal accounts. These accounts were used to access Microsoft source code repositories. The Windows OS maker stated that...

Microsoft has confirmed that their security was breached in the recent SolarWinds attacks however denied that their software was jeopardized in a supply-chain to attack its clients. Last weekend it was identified that those Russian state-sponsored hackers abused the network...