Data Breach

GhostR hacker claimed to hack Absolute Telecom PTE Ltd, a Singapore-based telecom company and stole 34 gigabytes of data including corporate information, accounting records, sales data, customer details, credit card information, and call records. In a post the bad actor claimed they infiltrated and compromised the company’s server networks on …

Bangladeshi online market place Travela.xyz for homestays and experiences, suffered a major data breach on June 9, 2024. The leaked information, found on a dark web hacking forum, exposed the personal data of the company’s hosts. The leaked data, which includes user information such as Host ID, First Name, Last …

Bad actor offer to sell myLocker, which offers a secure locker for documents in the cloud, user data on a dark web forum for $150  posing a threat to the Digital Bangladesh Program. MyLocker, an initiative of ICT division is a secure digital locker where citizens can store and share …

Bad actor claimed to have leaked a database of Facebook users from 2024. The database has 100,000 lines of data with names, profiles, emails, phone numbers, registration dates, and locations. If the claim is true, users are at risk due to the leak. They might be victims of identity theft, …

A big data breach was found with a combolist containing 122GB of data containing 361 million unique email addresses taken from thousands of Telegram channels. The dataset contains passwords and websites linked to them. It reveals a lot of new data that has been added to the breach alert service …

Jeremiah Fowler, a cybersecurity researcher, found and informed WebsitePlanet about a database without password protection. It held around 121,000 user accounts of entrepreneurs and business leaders from Clarity.fm, a platform for connecting entrepreneurs with experts. The database had 155,531 records, including 121,000 member profiles with personal and professional email addresses, …

A large dataset belonging to BSNL, an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, has been put up for sale by cybercriminals on an underground forum. On May 27, 2024, it was discovered that “kiberphant0m” was selling unauthorized access to databases stolen from BSNL, as well as data from other Asian telecom companies …

In December 2023, The First American Financial Corporation, a major title insurance company in the US, experienced a cyberattack. This resulted in the personal information of approximately 44,000 individuals being exposed. The company disclosed this data breach to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 28, 2024. This …

Ransomware damage costs are predicted to exceed $265 billion by 2031, and it is expected to be the fastest growing type of cybercrime, affecting a business, consumer, or device every 2 seconds by that year, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. A report from Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that ransomware damages would increase …

The UK government confirmed that hackers recently broke into the country’s Ministry of Defence and accessed part of the Armed Forces payment network. The system that was attacked contained personal data of active and reserve personnel and some recently retired veterans. MoD core network unaffected: Defense Secretary Grant Shapps announced …