Jeremiah Fowler writes: Another day and another big data leak. On July 1st the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained records of the internet’s largest webmaster portal. Upon further research it appeared that Digital Point had leaked the data of 863,412 users. Digital Point claims to…
Paytm Mall sends legal notice to Cyble after Cyble reports an alleged breach
I’ve covered data security concerns involving digital payment services Paytm in the past, but I didn’t pick up a recent claim by Cyble because their post relied on a tip from “KelvinSec” about “John Wick.” And although Cyble provided a couple of redacted screenshots to support a claim that there had been some incident, Cyble…
UK: Hackers hold Newcastle Uni student data to ransom
Bobby Hellard reports: Newcastle University is being held to ransom after cyber criminals hacked into its systems at the start of September. The group behind the attack are known as ‘DoppelPaymer’ and have been previously linked to an attack on Elon Musk’s companies SpaceX and Tesla. The attack on the university was reported as a…
Banco Estado detected malicious software on its systems that would have affected its platforms
The following is a Google translation of an article that appears at biobiochile.cl. DataBreaches.net was tipped to the breach by @ chum1ng0. The Banco Estado published a press release this Sunday in which it acknowledges that it detected malicious software in its operating systems, a problem that the entity’s cybersecurity teams detected and that have already…
Ransomware attack halts Argentinian border crossing for four hours
Lawrence Abrams reports: Argentina’s official immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, suffered a Netwalker ransomware attack that temporarily halted border crossing into and out of the country. While ransomware attacks against cities and local agencies have become all too common, this may be a first known attack against a federal agency that has interrupted a…
Prison phone service Telmate exposes messages, personal info of millions of inmates and their contacts
Paul Bischoff reports: Telmate, a service used by incarcerated inmates at US prisons to communicate with their friends and loved ones, has exposed a database containing tens of millions of call logs, private messages, and personal information about inmates and their contacts. The database was exposed on the web without a password or any other…