Phil Muncaster A database containing the voter records of over 19.5 million Californians was exposed to the public internet before being locked down and held for ransom by cyber-criminals, just months after…
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Fortune 500 Staff Spill 2.7 Million Log-Ins to Dark Web
Phil Muncaster Researchers have discovered a massive 2.7 million stolen online account log-ins from Fortune 500 employees on the dark web, representing a major security risk to the companies involved,…
Equifax and the UK - what’s going on?
Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology correspondent Last Thursday, the credit-scoring company Equifax revealed it had been the victim of what sounded like a disastrous hacking incident, with the data of 143 million…
Don't panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records
Personal info spills from another poorly secured Amazon service By Shaun Nichols A voting machine supplier for dozens of US states left records on 1.8 million Americans in public view…
Children's messages in CloudPets data breach
An open database containing links to more than 2 million voice messages recorded on cuddly toys has been discovered, cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt has revealed. The messages were created by…
French privacy row over mass ID database
A French state watchdog has called for the suspension of a database that could end up holding the biometric details of 60 million people. The aim of a single “mega-database”…