Researcher reveals data leak at South Africa’s main electricity provider
In what may be a case of “if we ignore it, it will go away,” South Africa’s largest electricity company has become the subject...
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Security firm identifies hacker behind Collection 1 leak, as Collection 2-5 become public
The threat intel team at Recorded Future, a US-based cyber-security firm, claims to have identified the hacker who assembled and then sold a massive...
This smart light bulb could leak your Wi-Fi password
A researcher has disclosed a set of vulnerabilities which could be exploited to steal Wi-Fi passwords belonging to LIFX smart lighting owners. This week,...
Massive 24-Million Record Financial & Mortgage Leak With OpticsML’s
January 2019 does not lack any grand scale cybersecurity news, the year just got started and we’re hearing data breaches, virus infections, and stolen...
Data Leak in Ghostscript Could Allow Command Execution
Data leak vulnerabilities in Ghostscript could allow an attacker to take over a routine and even execute commands on systems, Google Project Zero researcher...
FBI investigation records, and other confidential files exposed in Oklahoma Government data leak
Security researchers have disclosed an open server at the Oklahoma Securities Commission that has a huge trove of data containing confidential government files and...
What We Need To Learn From The World’s Largest Data Leak?
Troy Hunt, a prolific cybersecurity researcher has probably assembled one of the largest data leak collection in the world at the time of this...
Oklahoma gov data leak exposes FBI investigation records, millions of department files
Researchers have disclosed the existence of a server exposed to the public which not only contained terabytes of confidential government data but information relating...
Finger pointed at real estate recruiter after Australian CV leak
Australian real estate network First National released a statement following reports last week that information it held on job applicants had been leaked online....
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20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany’s Biggest Data Leak
German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists...