Over 11,000 Indian buses Real Time location data left exposed online

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Real-time GPS coordinates for over 11,000 buses in India have been left exposed on the internet for over three weeks. The data leaked via an ElasticSearch server that was left connected online without a password, according to security researcher Justin Paine, who shared his findings with ZDNet. The server contained data aggregated from 27 Indian state-owned […]

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The 10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2018

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10. Ticketfly — 27 million What was affected: Personal information including names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.When it happened: Late May 2018 How it happened: A hacker called “IsHaKdZ” compromised the site’s webmaster and “gained access to a database titled ‘backstage,’ which contains client information for all the venues, promoters, and festivals that utilize Ticketfly’s services.”

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S3 Leak: 3,000 Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards and National ID (Aadhaar) cards

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Summary In the normal course of scanning for open/exposed/vulnerable Amazon S3 buckets, Someone discovered a bucket containing roughly 3,000 imaged of Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards and National ID (Aadhaar) cards from India. After concluding the images and PDFs appeared to be sensitive identification documents he immediately attempted to make contact with India’s CERT team

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Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen

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The World’s most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users. Quora announced the incident late Monday after its team last Friday discovered that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one

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