Iranian crypto exchange Bit24.cash leaks user passports and IDs Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2024 Bit24.cash has inadvertently exposed sensitive data belonging to nearly 230,000 users, as revealed by Cybernews research. Due to its limited access to foreign financial markets, Iran has embraced cryptocurrency significantly. Last year, Iranian crypto exchanges facilitated transactions totaling nearly $3 billion. […]
MyEstatePoint Property Search Android app leaks user passwords Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2024 The MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked data on nearly half a million of its users, exposing their names and plain-text passwords, the Cybernews research team has found. The all-in-one real estate app MyEstatePoint Property Search left a publicly accessible MongoDB server containing […]
A hacker or hacker group, identified as “irleaks” (presumably indicating Iran Leaks), publicly disclosed the Snappfood cyber attack on Breach Forums and Telegram over New Year’s Eve. Snappfood, a prominent online food delivery service in Iran, has fallen victim to a major data breach, during which cybercriminals stole personal information of millions of customers, Hackread.com […]
Enterprise software provider TmaxSoft leaks 2TB of data Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2023 TmaxSoft, a Korean IT company developing and selling enterprise software has leaked over 50 million sensitive records. The 2 TB-strong Kibana dashboard has been exposed for over two years. Cybernews researchers discovered it back in January 2023, noting the set of data […]
Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of clients who opted-in for a screen warranty were exposed when DNA Micro leaked data from its systems. The Cybernews research team found that DNA Micro, a California-based IT company, exposed the sensitive data of more than […]
There were 2116 reported US data breaches and leaks in the first nine months of 2023, making it the worst year on record with a whole quarter left to go, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The non-profit, which tracks publicly reported breaches in the US, said there were 733 “data compromises” in […]
Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023 The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left open a data repository exposing nearly 50,000 files, some of which were highly sensitive, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 5th, our researchers discovered a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket storing nearly 48,000 […]
DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023 DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. The leaked logins present cybercriminals with almost limitless attack capabilities. DarkBeam, a digital risk protection firm, left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records […]
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 […]