TransCredit exposed financial data of half a million Americans and Canadians

By Waqas
TransCredit is a Jacksonville, Florida-based business credit reporting agency for the transportation industry. The IT security researchers at…
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Stripchat database mess up exposes 200M adult cam models, users’ data

By Waqas
StripChat is one of the top five adult cam sites on the internet. Earlier this month, this site suffered a database mess up that leaked sensitive data.
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Hacker steals govt database with info of entire Argentine population

By Deeba Ahmed
Reportedly, the database also contains personal information of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, football superstars Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi.
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Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data

By Waqas
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted.
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Storybooks for children app FarFaria exposed data of 3M users

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According to FarFaria, its apps are “created for children ages 2-9” meaning that the incident exposed children to cybercriminals.
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The Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts

LinkedIn normalized the idea of making people’s resume’s visible to anyone who wanted to look at them, and today a startup that’s hoping to do the same for companies and how they are organized and run is announcing some funding. The Org, which wants to build a global, publicly-viewable database of company organizational charts — […] Continue reading The Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts