A database of 2.8m records containing sensitive information regarding hundreds of thousands of CenturyLink’s customers was left open online for anyone with internet access to see. The records making up the database were logs from a third party notification platform used by CenturyLink. They included multiple pieces of personal information including name, email address, phone...Read More
Your grandmother, your mother, your grandfather, your father, your brothers, and sisters need your help to stay safe from cybercriminals. Have you checked in on the elders in your family and their online habits? Have you informed your parents of ongoing cyber threats and how to prevent them? At AGT, we want anyone and everyone...Read More
Personal data about almost every Ecuadorean citizen has been found exposed online. Names, financial information and civil data about 17 million people, including 6.7 million children, was found by security company vpnMentor. The massive cache of data was found on an unsecured Amazon cloud server almost anyone could look at. Access to the server has...Read More
Dehashed login details for customers of Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling used clothes and accessories, have been circulating online following the data breach a few months ago. At the beginning of the year, Poshmark announced that it had 40 million community members. According to data breach platform Have I Been Pwned, login details...Read More
The company has sent out an apology email to all its customers after the incident.The firm made another mistake by sending half the recipients an internal draft of the apology notice. Swedish furniture giant IKEA has accidentally exposed over 400 email addresses to other customers due to a human error. The company has sent out...Read More
“The cloud? Sure, we’re in the cloud. We ported our on-prem solution to a virtual machine.” Heard that from your network hardware vendor recently? Don’t blame Jane Salesperson. She’s been selling appliances for years. It’s what she knows. It’s what she’s commissioned on. For her, and for the appliance company for which she works, the cloud...Read More
