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Facebook breach exposes 533 million users

April 6, 2021

The personal data and phone numbers of hundreds of millions of Facebook users were posted for free in a hacking forum over the weekend. The data includes personal information of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million records on users in the U.S. 11 million on users in the U.K., and 6 million on users in India. 


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GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach - 28,000 Customers Affected

May 6, 2020
GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest domain registrar and a web hosting company that provides services to roughly 19 million customers around the world, has confirmed a data breach.
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Outsourcing Data: Don't Take a Fairytale Approach

Adult Live-Streaming Website Leaks 10.88 Billion Records

May 5, 2020
SafetyDetective's security research team, led by Anurag Sen, has discovered a significant data leak stretching into 10 billion records at adult live-streaming website CAM4.com, belonging to Irish company Granity Entertainment.
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Data Breach Report: Kinomap, Exercise App, Exposes 42 Million User Records

April 23, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a data breach belonging to the exercise technology company Kinomap. In total, the database was leaking more than 42 million records, affecting people all over the world.
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309 Million Facebook User Profiles Sold on Dark Web and Hacker Forums

April 22, 2020
Threat actors are selling more than 309 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums. 
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Top 10 Largest Data Breaches

April 22, 2020

A new study by Omnisend reveals the US companies that have had the largest number of data breaches. 


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General Electric Discloses Data Breach Affecting Present and Former Employees

April 9, 2020
General Electric (GE), a global Fortune 500 company, has acknowledged a data breach affecting present and former employees and their beneficiaries. Between February 3-14, 2020, an unauthorized user gained access to the email account of Canon Business Process Services, which GE contracts with to process employee documents. 
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Data Breach Report: RigUp Exposes More Than 70,000 Private Files

April 9, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a breached database belonging to American software company RigUp, containing more than 70,000 private files belonging to its US energy sector clients. Read more to learn about this data breach and the cybersecurity implications.
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Data Breach Report: Popular Digital Wallet App Key Ring Exposes 14 Million Users

April 3, 2020
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team of ethical hackers, recently discovered a data leak by the popular app Key Ring, that compromised the privacy and security of their 14 million users.
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Data Breach Report: Cloud Storage Exposes 270,000 Users’ Private Information

March 25, 2020
Led by cybersecurity analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently found a serious breach in an open Amazon S3 bucket owned by secure cloud storage provider Data Deposit Box.
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