data leak

  1. Vorastra

    38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

    https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers
  2. Eish4

    South African Company Data Breaches

    Seem these domains have experienced major data leaks in the past month, found huge amounts of personal infomation on the Not Surface and Deep Web stmarysschool.co.za cbcstjohns.co.za screenline.co.za borwafs.co.za spoormaker.co.za roedeanschool.co.za bizframe.co.za SA is not taking cyber crime...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft and Pentagon probe 1TB Defence Department email leak

    Microsoft and Pentagon probe 1TB Defence Department email leak The US Defence Department and Microsoft Corp. are investigating an error that exposed at least a terabyte of military emails including personal information and conversations between officials, people familiar with the matter said...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Twitter denies its systems were to blame in latest data leak

    Twitter denies its systems were to blame in latest data leak Twitter Inc. said Wednesday that an alleged data leak purporting to contain more than 200 million names and email addresses of its users wasn’t the result of exploiting any technical flaws on its platform. The company said in a blog...
  5. Jan

    Microsoft server configuration error leaks customer data

    Microsoft server configuration error exposes customer names, emails, and phone numbers Microsoft has confirmed that some of its customers' personal information has been exposed by an unintentionally misconfigured server that allowed unauthenticated access to business transaction data. The tech...
  6. Jan

    Toyota subcontractor puts customer database key on Github - South Africans likely unaffected

    Toyota warns database with 300,000 customers exposed after access key was accidentally put online Toyota has warned the personal information of almost 300,000 customers using its T-Connect car app may have been exposed after access to its database was accidentally leaked online...
  7. Jan

    Misconfigured Meta Pixel exposes healthcare data of 1.36 million US residents

    Facebook ad-tracking script exposes 1.36 million patients' healthcare data Novant Health has disclosed (access denied from South Africa) a data leak affecting 1,362,296 US-based individuals due to a misconfiguration of their Meta Pixel ad tracking JavaScript code, BleepingComputer reported...
  8. Rual dV

    Millions of JusTalk private messages leaked online

    Messaging app JusTalk suffers major data leak Messaging app JusTalk has suffered a security lapse through which millions of private messages have been leaked online, despite its claims that the app is secure and encrypted. The company says both of its apps — JusTalk and JusTalk Kids — are...
  9. Rual dV

    China censors any mentions of massive data leak on domestic social media platforms

    China censors mentions of massive data leak involving 1 billion citizens — Report Chinese authorities are censoring any posts on domestic social media platforms regarding an alleged data leak containing 1 billion citizens' data, Financial Times reports. In a post on Breach Forums, user...
  10. Jan

    OpenSea warns customers to watch for phishing attacks after data leak

    NFT marketplace data leak leaves users vulnerable to phishing scams OpenSea has disclosed that an employee of an email vendor, Customer.io, has leaked users' email addresses to an unauthorised external party. The world's biggest NFT marketplace said it is cooperating with Customer.io and law...
  11. Jan

    South African Nespresso distributor warns of data leak via third party

    Nespresso data leak in South Africa South African Nespresso distributor Top Coffee has sent a notice to clients informing them that their names, phone numbers, and email addresses may have been leaked. According to the notice, the personal information may have been temporarily exposed through...
  12. Jan

    Absa discovers more customers affected by 2020 data leak

    More Absa customers hit by data leak Absa has continued to send notifications to more customers impacted by a data leak in October 2020. Customers have told MyBroadband they received emails from the bank this past week informing them the leak also impacted them.
  13. Jan

    Aarto API exposed personal data

    South Africa's new traffic fine system exposed personal data An online interface set up for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) system exposed the personal information of every South African who received an infringement notice under the new law. Personal data...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    You can now check if your phone number was exposed in Facebook data leak

    You can now check if your phone number was exposed in Facebook data leak Online security platform Have I Been Pwned has added the ability for users to check if their mobile number has been compromised in the recent Facebook data leak. The personal data of 533 million Facebook users who formed...
  15. J

    Data leak exposes names, ID numbers, and plain-text passwords of South Africans

    Data leak exposes names, ID numbers, and plain-text passwords of 934,000 South Africans A South African database containing sensitive personal data, which appears to have originated from a traffic department, has been leaked online. The information contained in this leak includes names, ID...
  16. RedViking

    What SMMEs can learn from SA’s biggest data leak

    Read ful larticle here: http://www.htxt.co.za/2017/11/03/what-smmes-can-learn-from-sas-biggest-data-leak/
  17. Newsfeed

    What to do if you are in South Africa’s massive data leak

    What to do if you are in South Africa’s massive data leak Following the South African database leak which contained over 66 million ID numbers, people have asked what to do to protect themselves.
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