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California’s Department of Justice angered Tim Sylvester, a self-described gun collector in northern California’s Central Valley, when it unveiled the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners, likely including Sylvester’s own. Sylvester, an almond and grape farmer who taught firearm safety classes for several years, told RealClearPolitics that it’s a breach of […]

Users of biggest NFT Marketplace warned over phishing after data leak. The marketplace allows users to trade digital assets, and many believe that this data leak could be the cause of phishing scams targeting users. The NFT marketplace is one of the largest in the world, and it is important for users to be aware

A security researcher claimed that an Indian government website was potentially exposing the Aadhaar numbers of India’s farmers, thereby potentially jeopardizing the lives of several million people. India’s Farmers exposed by new Aadhaar data leak. Atul Nair told TechCrunch that he found a part of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi website that was revealing

Since the beginning of 2018, cyberattacks against businesses and organizations in China have increased. The latest attack took place on July 5th, when a data trove belonging to Shanghai’s municipal government was exposed on the internet. This Shanghai Cyberattack Exposes Dangers of China’s data trove included personal information, contact information, and financial details of over

Google has released the first public version of its Android operating system, but security researchers warn that it may contain multiple weak spots that could lead to data leakage. The CERT-IN Flags Multiple Weak Spots in Android OS carrying data leak risk through its use of certificates, which can be exploited by attackers to steal

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS — In regard to the new directions for VPN services developing in India, ExpressVPN exits India in light of new anti-privacy rules. Harold Li, vice President, ExpressVPN says, “With a recent data law introduced in India requiring all VPN providers to store user information for at least five years, ExpressVPN has made

ISOC, a non-profit that works to preserve the Internet open and intact, blames a third-party vendor for the unintentional exposure of 80,000 of its members’ personal data. The Internet Society data leak exposed 80000 members’ login details data, which was publicly available on an unprotected Microsoft Azure cloud repository, including several JSON files containing, among

Shutterfly, an online photography manufacturing and retail website revealed an employee data breach after threat actors stole information of staff and clients during Shutterfly discloses data breach after Conti ransomware attack. Read the comparison between data leak vs data breach. Shutterfly offers photography-related services to a number of groups, including consumers, businesses, and education, through

T-Mobile Inc., a US telecommunications corporation, plans to pay out $350 million to its customers, likely to its checkbook, attorneys, and administrative staff in 2021 to cover costs following a mega breach that year. The company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it will fork out roughly $150 million on cybersecurity and

In 2016, Uber acknowledged a massive data leakage that exposed information regarding Uber is covering up data breach involving 57 million users customer accounts and 600,000 drivers’ license numbers. Under an agreement reached with the Department of Justice, HME’s Ride-Sharing platform has reached a non-prosecution agreement stemming from a criminal probe into the cover-up of

Last week, VPNBlade got an opportunity of being interviewed at Website Planet, an online review and website services providing platform. The aim of Website Planet interviewing VPN Blade was to share the success story of VPNBlade.com with their audience to let them know how brands are built. The key elements that were discussed in that

RedAlert, also known as N13V, is a new ransomware operation that encrypts both Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers in attacks on corporate networks. The crime of yesterday’s magnitude was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam today. The team published screenshots highlighting where the leak occurred. The ransomware has been branded as ‘#RedAlert’ upon being obtained by means