End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal claims that hackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes of 1900 users as part of the Twilio breach, last week. Twilio, which provides phone number verification services to Signal, said on August 8 that malicious actors accessed the data of 125 customers after successfully phishing multiple employees. […]
Recently, an unknown hacker group breached Punjab Land Record Authority’s (PLRA) data system to try and tamper with the Land Record Management Information System. The Punjab Land Record Authority enhanced its security soon after detecting the hacking attempt by the unknown hacker group. Furthermore, the Punjab Land Record Authority’s Additional Director General has written a […]
On Friday, Uber accepted the responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with US prosecutors to avoid criminal charges. In joining a non-prosecution agreement, Uber admitted that its personnel failed to report the November 2016 data breach to the US Federal Trade […]
US-based T-Mobile has settled a massive data breach settlement over a cyberattack last year that compromised information belonging to an estimated 76.6 million people. The company agreed to pay $350 million and spend an additional $150 million to upgrade data security. T-Mobile disclosed the breach last August. At first, 47 million current, former and prospective […]
Web hosting giant, GoDaddy has announced a data breach and warns that data on nearly 1.2 million users may have been accessed. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s chief information security officer Demetrius Comes stated that the company discovered unapproved access to its systems where it hosts and handles its customers’ […]
In the recent news, the Amazon-owned gaming platform, Twitch has undergone a massive data breach that experts have described as a “highly targeted attack”. On Wednesday, the company confirmed it suffered a breach, and said its teams were working to realize its magnitude. The Massive Data Breach Also Exposed the Source Code of Twitch […]
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has now completely restored the taxpayers’ database on Wednesday evening (August 25), however, a 100 percent security system needs to be inspected before being declared operational to counter cyber-attacks attempts on the FBR system. Taxpayers’ Database and All the Major Systems Restored “Yes, the system was hacked,” replied […]
California-based software firm, Business Efficiency Solutions (BES) has slammed the Chinese tech giant, Huawei with a lawsuit in California federal court for supposedly stealing sensitive information following their work collectively on a project for the Pakistani government, and therefore, spying in Pakistan. Furthermore, on Wednesday the US company also accused Huawei of employing its […]
It appears to be that the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a public hacker forum. A forum user published a massive 100GB TXT file that holds 8.4 billion records of passwords, which have probably been consolidated from earlier data leaks and breaches. According to the post author, all passwords […]
Private data of around 4.5 million travelers of Air India was leaked in a cyberattack on the airline’s data processor however the compromised servers were later secured, the Indian government endowed transporter proclaimed in a statement. The Indian airline, a member of global airlines consortium Star Alliance, announced the breach included private data, such […]