For the second time in three weeks, leaked data exposes Iranian hacking operations. Last month, a mysterious actor using the moniker Lab Dookhtegan leaked information on the state-backed Iranian hacking group APT34 (aka OilRig, HelixKitten) through a Telegram channel. Now, a group using the name Green Leakers has leaked information

Once again, a security researcher has found an unprotected database exposing the personal data of hundreds of millions of people. The leaky database, which had been online since at least April 23, contained 275,265,298 records of Indian citizens, including their name, gender, date of birth, email, mobile phone number and

Researchers with vpnMentor have stumbled upon an unsecured database that contains sensitive information on 80 million US households, which is 65% of total households. Unfortunately, the database doesn’t contain any hints as to who owns it, so the researchers don’t know which organization is exposing people’s data. The database consists of

IntSights has released a new report on the threat landscape for the financial sector. It shows that the number of compromised banking credentials surged last year, and the same is true for stolen credit card details. Over one-fourth (25.7%) of malware attacks in 2018 targeted businesses offering financial services, making

A security researcher with the GDI Foundation has found an unsecured database that exposed over 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords. The database has now been taken down by the host upon request of the researcher, who initially reached out to the app’s developer, but received no response. The leaky server

Since the end of last month, a mysterious actor using the moniker Lab Dookhtegan has been leaking information on the state-backed Iranian hacking group APT34 (aka OilRig, HelixKitten) through a Telegram channel. The leaked information provides insights into the infrastructure of APT34, its members, the tools they use and the

A security researcher with GDI foundation has found eight unprotected databases exposing 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. In addition to LinkedIn profile information, the data includes the email address of users, even of those who have configured their LinkedIn privacy settings so that only their direct connections can

For the second time this week, and the umpteenth time in the past 12 months, Facebook has made the news due to a massive privacy blunder. In an unwelcome sequel to a March statement by the company that it had stored between 200 million and 600 million plain text user

On Wednesday, a new chapter was added to the seemingly never-ending story of Facebook privacy snafus when the social media giant admitted that the email contacts of up to 1.5 millions users were “unintentionally uploaded to Facebook when they created their account.” Ironically, the discovery was made when the company

In two separate incidents this week, the UK Home Office inadvertently revealed private information on hundreds of UK and EU citizens. In a first incident, 500 email addresses of UK citizens from countries belonging to the Commonwealth were leaked. The second incident involved the inadvertent exposure of 240 email addresses