Data leak stories

Australian application teams are now reviewing whether their APIs overshare
Last month
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A publicly exposed API is widely believed to be the cause of at least one of the major attacks on Australian enterprises in the back half of 2022.

Web companies most likely to lose your data – report
Wed, 12th Oct 2022
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“The digitalised era comes with plenty of pros, but lots of cons at the same time, with possible data leaking probably being the most dangerous one."

What we can learn from the leaked Conti ransomware group chats
Tue, 7th Jun 2022
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In February, Russia-based ransomware group Conti declared it would fully support the Russian Government during its invasion of Ukraine.

More than 40 billion records exposed in 2021 - research
Fri, 21st Jan 2022
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Ransomware had a monumental impact on organisations in 2021, responsible for approximately 38% of all breaches, and 31% of breaches in APAC.

Cybersecurity experts weigh in on GoDaddy data breach
Wed, 24th Nov 2021
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The recent GoDaddy data breach saw the potential exposure of 1.2 million customers' data.

Hackers leak 5 million email addresses daily - reports
Tue, 9th Nov 2021
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"Personal data is a huge business that hackers try to make use of."

New certification standards announced, designed to secure and protect consumer data
Tue, 13th Jul 2021
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Vanta has announced the public availability of two new certification standards designed to help secure the internet and protect consumer data.

600 million profiles for sale on hacker forum - Third LinkedIn scrape in four months
Tue, 13th Jul 2021
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LinkedIn has experienced another huge data scape, the third in four months, with 600 million profiles for sale online.

Risk of data leaks high as employees unsure about confidentiality
Fri, 9th Jul 2021
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"If confidential information falls into the wrong hands, it could harm the company in a variety of ways."

Oversharing of sensitive documents soars 450%
Thu, 24th Jun 2021
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Oversharing increases the risk an organisation will lose data, violate compliance or privacy mandates, or experience cybercrime.

Australians fear COVID-19 misinformation threat - study
Tue, 29th Dec 2020
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Australians want to see greater transparency about the extent of the problem, new polling has found.

10 billion records sit in unsecured databases - China leads the pack
Tue, 11th Aug 2020
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A white hat hacker hacker uncovered a total of 9517 unsecured databases worldwide, collectively containing more than 10 billion entries.

Almost 10,000 unsecured databases with more than 10 billion credentials exposed
Thu, 30th Jul 2020
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Research has identified a total of 9,517 unsecured databases containing 10,463,315,645 entries with such data as emails, passwords, and phone numbers.

7 VPN services leaked data of 20 million users - report
Mon, 27th Jul 2020
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"The report calls into question the providers’ security practices and dismisses their claims of being no-log VPN services."

Millions of Facebook user records exposed in latest data leak
Thu, 4th Apr 2019
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UpGuard reported that each of the data sets was stored in its own Amazon S3 bucket configured to allow public download of files.

Expert comment: What the Collection #2-5 data dump means for credential abuse
Mon, 4th Feb 2019
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TechDay spoke to experts and executives in the security industry about the data leak and the implications on phishing and credential stuffing.

Massive 2.2bil-username data dump leaked on dark web
Fri, 1st Feb 2019
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This makes the second leak three times bigger than the Collection #1 dump leaked last month.

Breaking: NHS accidentally leaks data of 150,000 patients
Wed, 4th Jul 2018
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Objections to data sharing recorded in GP practices running clinical software TPP’s system between March 2015 and June 2018 were not sent to NHS.

Data from app that enables parents to monitor teen’s phone activity leaked
Tue, 22nd May 2018
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How ironic! Tens of thousands of user accounts of an app used by parents to monitor their children’s phone activity has been leaked.

Apple says DON’T fear about leaked source code – experts say DO
Sat, 10th Feb 2018
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After a critical source code for the iPhone was leaked online recently, Apple reassured there was nothing to fear but experts think otherwise.

'Leaker' behind massive NSA breach possibly still working at agency
Wed, 15th Nov 2017
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A cybersecurity expert has said it is a ‘stunning admission’ by the former CIA director about the NSA breach that is being touted as catastrophic.

Experts discuss implications of massive Paradise Papers leak
Fri, 10th Nov 2017
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The recent news about the huge leak of financial documents has caused waves around the world.

JobStreet confirms hit by Malaysia data leak - almost 3.9m accounts affected
Fri, 3rd Nov 2017
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data leak
JobStreet is informing clients by email whether they were caught up in a Malaysia-based data breach that affected 19 different companies.

Major data breach hits Malaysia's 46 million mobile phone users
Thu, 2nd Nov 2017
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telecommunications
A data breach has put more than 46 million Malaysian mobile phone users at risk and has affected many of the country’s major telecommunicatio