Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained names, phone numbers, and email addresses of nearly 300,000 taxi passengers in the UK and Ireland. The records belonged to Dublin-based iCabbi, a dispatch and fleet
Over 14 million internet browser cookies linked to UK consumers have been leaked onto the dark web. A recent study from NordVPN revealed the leak. This disclosure is part of a larger global issue, with more than 54 billion cookies found leaked worldwide, impacting users in 244
On the 1st of February 2024, the popular survey platform, SurveyLama, suffered a data breach, compromising 4.4 million users’ information. The information implicated in the breach includes users’ email addresses, names, passwords, and more. The creator of Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt, was
The Indian government's cloud service, S3WaaS, has exposed the sensitive personal information of its citizens for years. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sourajeet Majumder discovered the issue, revealing that Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details were among
AT&T has confirmed a data breach affecting over 73 million of its current and former customers. This breach, which saw sensitive customer information leaked onto the dark web, has prompted the telecommunications giant to reset the passcodes of millions of customer accounts in a bid to secure
The UK government has taken decisive action in response to a series of cyberattacks attributed to China-affiliated actors. These attacks, which notably targeted the UK Electoral Commission and individual parliamentarians, have prompted the UK to impose sanctions against the entities believed to be
Over 70 million records associated with AT&T customers have been leaked on the popular hacking forum, Breached. The data, purportedly stolen in 2021 by the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters, includes sensitive personal information such as names, phone numbers, physical addresses, email
A significant security flaw in the Irish Health Service Executive's (HSE) COVID-19 vaccination portal, which exposed the vaccination records of approximately a million people, has been disclosed after a two-year delay. The vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Aaron Costello in December
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 2.3 million documents belonging to Kids Empire, an US operator of recreational centers. The publicly exposed database contained 2,363,222 documents in .PDF
Fidelity Investments Life Insurance Company (FILI) has announced a significant data breach affecting approximately 28,000 customers, following a cyberattack on third-party service provider Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS). The breach, which occurred between October 29 and November 2, 2023, involved