Category: Data Leak

Twitter vulnerability

Twitter fined 450,000 euros due to the data breach

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) disclosed that Twitter will be fined 450,000 euros due to the data breach disclosed in January 2019. It is understood that the company failed to promptly notify the...

Marriott Starwood Hotel Data Breach

Lazada RedMart leaked 1.1 million account information

Alibaba’s e-commerce platform, Singapore e-commerce company Lazada recently announced that its subsidiary database has been hacked to reveal user information. The data leaked in this security incident involved 1.1 million user accounts. The information...

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The Windows XP source code was accidentally leaked

The source code files of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system appeared unexpectedly on the Internet recently. As we all know, Windows XP is a closed-source commercial operating system. The source code files belong...

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Have I Been Pwned is now open source project

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is the most influential self-checking website for data breaches? Recently, the founder, Troy Hunt announced that it will be open source. Through HIBP, individuals and companies can easily check...

Intel microcode license

Intel leaked 20GB of source code and internal documents

Yesterday, hackers announced on Twitter that they had obtained confidential data from Intel, including Intel’s large source code and internal documentation. The data totaled 20GB, but the hacker did not disclose how it was...