Tag: data leak

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Millions of Internet Society personal files exposed in data leak

Unprotected Microsoft Azure contained personal and login details of around 80,000 members Cybersecurity researchers discovered an unprotected Microsoft Azure Blob storage containing millions of files with personal and login details belonging to Internet Society (ISOC) members. The exposed information contained included names, addresses, social media account information, passwords and more. The data leak was due […]

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Robinhood trading app hit by data breach affecting seven million

US share-trading app Robinhood has been hit by a security breach that has exposed the names or email addresses of more than seven million people. The company says the breach affected “a limited amount of personal information for a portion of our customers”. And it does not believe the most sensitive information it gathers – […]

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Bad App Configuration Causes BrewDog Data Leak of 200k People

The data of more than 200,000 of BrewDog’s ‘Equity for Punks’ shareholders and customers has been available on their app over the last 18 months BrewDog’s security issue was supposedly caused by the tokens not being transmitted following a successful user authentication event. This gave users the ability to access any other user’s PII, shareholding […]

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Twitch source code, business data, gamer payouts leaked in massive hack

An unknown hacker has leaked the entirety of Twitch’s source code among a 128 GB trove of data released this week. The hack includes: The entirety of twitch.tv, with commit history going back to its early beginnings Mobile, desktop and console Twitch clients Creator payout reports from 2019 Proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used […]

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