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Joe Biden app bug might have exposed personal information of millions of users
Tens of millions of potential voters may have had their data stolen. Apparently, this app has been pulling more information than displayed.
PonyFinal: The new data-stealing ransomware
Towards the end of May this year, Microsoft warned of a new strain of Java-based ransomware called PonyFinal, which also steals its victims data.
Data breach leads to the theft of $10M from a Norwegian investment fund
On May 13, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Norfund, announced that it had lost 10 million dollars in an “advanced data breach”.
Over 1 billion people’s data leaked in an unsecured server
In the middle of October an unsecured Elasticsearch server containing the personal data of 1.2 billion people was discovered exposed online.
One third of Americans’ cell numbers available on password-free server
Approximately 133 million US-based cell numbers are part of the 419 million records found by cyber-security researches on a password-free server.
Bulgaria suffers a massive data theft
A cybersecurity worker in Bulgaria has been arrested and charged with stealing the personal and financial data of up to 5 million citizens.
Millions of Stolen User Records Up for Sale on The Dark Web
Just a few days later cyber criminals uploaded a new batch of additional 127 million records stolen from more than a dozen other brands.