March 31, 2020

Data on almost every citizen of Georgia posted on hacker forum

Where did it all come from? 4.9m records were posted on a hacking forum - and the country only has an estimated population of 3.7m.

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February 19, 2020

Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.

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February 12, 2020

Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

A web-mapping project came across detainees' prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.

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December 03, 2019

SMS company exposes millions of text messages, credentials online

Researchers at VpnMentor claim that the TrueDialog data leak exposure could have compromised tens of millions of people.

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September 06, 2019

Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.

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August 22, 2019

Massive MoviePass database found exposed on public server

Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn't protected with a password.

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May 22, 2019

Instagram data from 49 million accounts found lying around online

A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data on millions of Instagram influencers, publicly accessible for everyone to see.

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