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Microsoft Data Breach leaves 250 Million Records Exposed

Jai Singh — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:07:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that a data breach has led to the exposure of 250 million records that can be accessed by anyone through a web browser. Microsoft in a blog post said that an internal database was exposed due to some misconfigured security rules between 05 and 31 December 2019.

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Jeff Bezos phone Hacked allegedly by Saudi crown prince

Jai Singh — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:40:46 +0000

Experts from the United Nations have demanded an investigation into a plot to hack the phone of Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon and Washington Post. David Kaye and Agnes Callamard, who are the UN special rapporteurs, said they had information that points to the possible involvement of Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince.

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Facebook: 267 Million users’ details found on Hacker forum

Jai Singh — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:20:59 +0000

Facebook has accepted that it is investigating the case of a database leak of names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users. An online hacker, who belonged to a crime group, made the database available for download last week.

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BMW & Hyundai Hacked by Vietnamese hackers!

Jai Singh — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 07:29:01 +0000

News reports from the German media are suggesting that hackers, with alleged links to the Vietnamese government, have hacked BMW & Hyundai networks, the two leading car manufacturers.

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Hacking Robotic vehicles is simpler than ever before

Jai Singh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:02:48 +0000

The University of British Columbia has come up with a study that suggests robotic vehicles like delivery drones or rovers can be easily hacked. A total of three different types of stealth attacks were designed by researchers which made the machines miss their targets, crash and delay their mission.

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21 million MixCloud users’ data put up on the dark web for sale

Jai Singh — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:47:29 +0000

Hacked! MixCloud, a US-based renowned audio streaming site has been breached in November. The hacker is now selling the data of around 21 million users accounts on the dark web marketplace.

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North Korean malware found on Indian Nuclear plant

Jai Singh — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:22:01 +0000

The smoke of doubt of attack was already prevailing in the last days of October. Just a couple of days later, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) acknowledged the breach. The attack was probably carried out by North Korea as the malware was developed by North Korean hackers.

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WhatsApp Hack: High profile Govt. Officials targeted

Jai Singh — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:26:09 +0000

This attack was not like other massive attacks on mass users but only high profile govt. officials of more than 20 countries were targeted. Most of the countries which were targeted are US allies and attack was carried out from 29 April 2019 to 10 May 2019.

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1.3 Million Indian Credit, debit card details up for sale on Dark Web

Jai Singh — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:05:43 +0000

This is not just an accusation but confirmed with proof by Singapore based security research company, Group – IB. The research company also showed with proofs that 1.3 million Indian banks' customer’s credit and debit cards are up for sale on the dark web.

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Hostinger got hacked, company resets 14m users’ password

Jai Singh — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:28:42 +0000

Hostinger, one of the most popular web hosting company has forcibly reset the passwords of its 14 million users after facing one of the biggest data breach by a hacker. After detecting the breach the company immediately reset the passwords of its users to some random words and number.

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