Tag: data breach
PII of 46,000 U.S. Veterans Compromised in a Data Breach
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Management disclosed a data breach incident that exposed the sensitive information of around 46,000 veterans....
Email Marketing Company Mailfire Exposes PII of Dating Site Users
An anonymous ethical hacker found an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing private data of hundreds of thousands of users of over 70 adult dating and...
Digital Point’s Unsecured Database Exposed Records of Over 800,000 Users
An unprotected database belonging to a webmaster forum, Digital Point, exposed more than 800,000 users’ records. Security firm WebsitePlanet and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler...
Warner Music Group Suffered Skimming Attack for Three Months
Popular music recording firm Warner Music Group disclosed a security incident in which unknown threat actors compromised a number of its U.S.-based e-commerce websites...
Massive Data Breach! View Media’s Unsecured Database Exposes 38 Mn User Records
Online marketing company View Media’s unsecured database, which held 38 million U.S. users’ data, was recently exposed online. According to researchers from CyberNews, the...
4 in 10 Companies Expose Unsafe Network Services Online
A joint research by cyber risk management firm RiskRecon and the cybersecurity research firm Cyentia Institute revealed that a large number of organizations leave...