Today a hacker who uses the twitter handle @0x55Taylor posted some screen shots of a breach that was happening at that time, since then i have spoken to them about this breach which appears to affect all users who register at thefly.com a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news between 2006 and 2015. @0x55Taylor…
Category: Breach Incidents
“Your (fake) doctor will see you now.”
When it comes to the medical sector, the concern with ID theft is usually the theft of services or the corruption of someone’s medical records in ways that might harm them at some point. But what if the ID theft resulted in someone posing as a doctor and then treating you? Lynh Bui reports that…
2018 Arrives and Apache.org Goes Offline
Today its New Years Day 2018 and already we are seeing major issues on the internet with one of the worlds most used popular websites for developers and system admins has gone offline along with a lot of its subdomains. While conducting some research i noticed that apache.org was offline and after checking it i…
Website dumps files from Gottfrid Svartholm, co-owner of torrent site The Pirate Bay
A user on a deepweb forum has posted a thread that lays claim to a leak of data on The Pirate Bay co-owner Gottfrid Svartholm Aka Anakata. The user has posted a short message and a link to file hosting site mega.co.nz that contains a 3gb zip file. After downloading and doing a quick check…
A tale of three leaks, Wednesday edition
On December 6, DataBreaches.net was contacted by researchers who requested help notifying two entities that they were exposing health information due to misconfigured AWS S3 buckets. They would turn out to be a delight to deal with, unlike a third entity that was also leaking information from a misconfigured S3 bucket. So let’s start with…
Notice of Data Incident Regarding Veyna & Forschino
(I should have remembered to anticipate press releases after 3 pm on the Friday of a big holiday weekend. Here’s another one:) On November 27, 2017, Veyna & Forschino (V&F) encountered suspicious activity on one company email account. V&F immediately began investigating the matter and contacted its local IT firm who disabled access. Further, V&F…