Android TV bug causes a user’s private photo to leak
Recently, a Twitter user, @wothadei revealed that he found a bug in Android TV that caused the user’s private photo to be leaked. When he connected to a Vu Android TV and chose to...
Category: Data Leak
Swedish healthcare hotline leaked 2.7 million call records: involving much sensitive information
2.7 million patient calls to Swedish healthcare hotline were exposed on the Internet. Up to 170,000 hours of call audio containing extremely sensitive information is stored on an open web server without any encryption...
Mozilla issued a warning that Kenya DNA-linked national ID
Mozilla issued a warning to Kenya’s new national identity card. The Kenyan parliament passed a revision of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) last month. The NIIMS now requires all Kenyans, immigrants, and...
Google launched Password Checkup tool to helps you secure accounts
Google official has now launched a new extension called Password Checkup in the Google Chrome Store to help users detect leaked passwords. After the user installs the extension, it will automatically compare the database...
The leaked MongoDB database exposed a large number of Kremlin’s backdoor
Recently, a Dutch security researcher accidentally discovered the back door account of the Kremlin, referring to its servers that the government can use to access local and foreign companies operating in Russia. It is...
New data leak with over 845 gigabytes of stolen data and 25 billion records
Earlier this month, the hacker community exposed a huge 87GB database called Collection #1. Security researcher Troy Hunt points out that it includes about 773 million email addresses and 21 million passwords. However, the...
Mozilla introduces new Firefox user information anti-tracking strategy
Mozilla recently launched the latest Firefox anti-tracking strategy. The new version of the anti-tracking technique describes that Firefox will block related information tracking by default. These anti-tracking strategies were recently designed by Firefox, which...
Some of the biggest US banks leaked over 24 million loans and mortgages records
According to TechCrunch reports, because of server security breaches, many large US banks leaked more than 24 million financial and banking information, involving a large number of loans and mortgage information. The Elasticsearch database...
The most popular Android free VPN apps could put users at risks
Privacy Central recently tested the 150 most popular Android free VPN apps in the Google Play store, which were installed 260 million times. Although these VPNs are very popular, the test results from Privacy...
Philippine financial service provider data breach: Over 900,000 customers affected
Cebuana Lhuillier, a Philippines’ largest non-bank financial service provider, said on Saturday that about 900,000 customers were hacked by unauthorized hackers. The company has alerted the authorities and intervened in the investigation. The leak...
Twitter fixes a bug in Android app that exposes private tweet
Twitter officially announced that Android client users who have done some operations on account settings may have been exposed private tweets for more than four years. Simply put, the tweets visible to some people...
737 million email addresses leaked
Security researcher Troy Hunt revealed that last week he was told that a popular hacking forum is discussing a public dataset on MEGA that has a capacity of more than 87GB, including 773 million...
Hackers have stolen 5 million customer Passport Numbers in a targeted Marriott attack
Marriott International recently said that after careful investigation by the forensic and analysis team, the number of customers affected by its big data breach has decreased from 500 million to 383 million, of which...
TCL removes weather app from the Play Store and is on an investigation
Recently, we reported that TCL developed an Android-based mobile app Weather Forecast — World Weather Accurate Radar that collects user information over the world and subscribes to some paid services without asking for permission. TCL...
Hackers publish hundreds confidential information of politicians in Germany
In the past few weeks, hackers have leaked confidential data about German Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other politicians. This is the largest politician information leak in Germany so far. According to a...
Report: Many Android apps still send data to Facebook without authorization
Facebook is still tracking the apps that users open, even if they don’t have a Facebook account. This affects at least 61% of test applications, which may be illegal under the new GDPR law....
