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Breach: Unsecured Mongo database exposes 700,000 Choice Hotels
Choice Hotel's vendor had left open an unsecured MongoDB connection to a database containing 700,000 guests information including Full names,...
Biostar 2 Breach: Fingerprints and Facial Recognition available on open API
A huge security hole exposed fingerprints of over 1 million people along with facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords,...
StockX “System Update” Revealed to be a Breach
First StockX forced a password reset, telling customers it was due to a system update, now it turns out that not only were over 6 million user...
Cloudentity and NYDFS
We’ve all heard a lot about GDPR, but if you’re in the Financial Services industry, you’re probably aware of NYDFS compliance. NYDFS is...
2019 CafePress breach exposes 23 million users… What did we learn?
This post looks back at the CafePress data breach of 2019, the compromised user data, how CafePress handled the breach, the resulting fall-out, and...
AT&T Call Center Employees Bribed to Unlock Phones and Install Malware
The DOJ unsealed an indictment against Muhammad Fahd and his co-conspirator Ghulam Jiwan who bribed AT&T call center employees to unlock over 2...
Breach: 1 Million South Korean Credit Cards on the Dark Web
Gemini Advisory Group reported today that there has been a sharp uptick in the number of South Korean for sale on the dark web; they have seen a...
Press Release: Cloudentity Introduces Next Generation Identity-based API Security to Handle Data Privacy Concerns
Cloudentity’s latest Standards Based Authorization Platform is also the fastest, most flexible and cost-effective in the market, with Microscale to Planet Scale capability.
Poshmark Breach
In today's breach news, Poshmark disclosed "data from some Poshmark users was acquired by an unauthorized third party." Poshmark is a social...
Pearson Exposes Student Data
Education software company Pearson, exposed data on at least 100,000 students across more than 13,000 schools and universities. The breach itself...
Capital One AWS Breach
The story of the hacker who got hold of 100 million Capital One credit applications and accounts keeps getting bigger. First there's the breach...
Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States
The Senate Committee on Intelligence released a highly redacted report saying that Russia hackers targeted the voting systems of all 50 states...