Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million files and 26 million credentials, 11 million unique email addresses, and 2 billion web login cookies, researchers pointed out that 22% of the web login cookies were still valid at the time of the discovery of the archive. Experts found over 650,000 Word documents and.pdf files in the archive. The database includes 6.6

Computer and Electronics 114

Computer and Electronics Archiving Encryption Passwords 114

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. So mistake number one is leaving Amazon credentials in your Git archive. Mistake number two is using S3 without using encryption on top of it.

Encryption 246

Encryption Passwords Access Financial Services 246

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Your company stakeholders — especially the employees — should know the strategies your security team is using to prevent data breaches, and they should know simple ways they can help, like password protection and not clicking on malicious links or files or falling for phishing attacks. This varies between organizations.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Big data Cybersecurity Security 98

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even if one managed to steal (or guess) a user’s DirectConnection password, the login page could not be reached unless the visitor also possessed a special browser certificate that the forum administrator gave only to approved members. A screen shot of the org chart from ChronoPay’s MegaPlan Intranet system.

Computer and Electronics 222

Computer and Electronics Marketing Sales Healthcare 222

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In total, there were 2,889 text files in the archive but it's what's inside them which I found particularly interesting. Almost all the files are just email addresses and plain text passwords (the occasional file has a username that's not an email address and a password). But there's 18.6M So what can we conclude from this?

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Passwords Cleanup File names 89

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. Alternatively, you can view our full archive. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 36 million records. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

GB database includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords. Alternatively, you can view our full archive. Al Mujtama Pharmacy allegedly breached, more than 7 million records affected More than 7 million data records belonging to the Saudi pharmacy Al Mujtama have reportedly been published on an underground forum.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52