Hundred thousand Spotify accounts leaked in credential stuffing attack

By Saad Rajpoot
Spotify has suffered its second credential stuffing attack in three months.
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Chinese firm leaked 200m Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed
The 400GB worth of data was exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch database.
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Database leak exposed mass credential stuffing against Spotify users

By Deeba Ahmed
Researchers helped Spotify detect and address a severe credential stuffing operation affecting hundreds of millions of its users.
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Leaked database exposed login data of 100k hacked Facebook accounts

By Sudais Asif
The leaked database was owned by cybercriminals who hacked Facebook accounts and used them for credit card and Bitcoin scams.
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Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts

Companies that use Broadvoice’s cloud-based VoIP platform may find their patients, customers, suppliers and partners to be impacted by a massive data exposure. Continue reading Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts

With database attacks on the rise, how can companies protect themselves?

Misconfigured or unsecured databases exposed on the open web are a fact of life. We hear about some of them because security researchers tell us how they discovered them, pinpointed their owners and alerted them, but many others are found by attackers … Continue reading With database attacks on the rise, how can companies protect themselves?

Microsoft Bing server exposed user search queries and location data

By Waqas
Microsoft Bing server logged some horrific search terms including searchers for murder and child abuse content.
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Google Cloud Buckets Exposed in Rampant Misconfiguration

A too-large percentage of cloud databases containing highly sensitive information are publicly available, an analysis shows. Continue reading Google Cloud Buckets Exposed in Rampant Misconfiguration

Popular shopping site leaks miners’ data in 6TB of database mess up

By Waqas
The database belonging to windeln.de’s production server was left exposed on a misconfigured server.
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