Cybersecurity

Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters

Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2024 A batch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top Europol executives mysteriously disappeared last summer The website Politico reported that the Europol has suffered a serious security breach, a batch of sensitive files of top law enforcement officials, including […]

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Data brokers are selling US service members’ secrets, researchers find

Vast amounts of highly sensitive data on American military service members are up for sale by data brokers, according to a new report examining the national security implications of the practice. The research sheds light on the secretive data broker industry, which gathers exceptionally granular personal information on individual consumers, often selling the data to […]

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FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023 Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files […]