data breach Archive
Unauthorized access to CPR database exposes personal data of 8.8 million danish citizens
A major security incident involving Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR) has resulted in unauthorized access to personal information belonging to approximately 8.8 million registered citizens. According to the Danish CPR administration, the incident occurred after unauthorized individuals exploited a legitimate access channel held by a Danish company
Discord data breach exposes thousands of users’ IDs and personal details
Discord has confirmed a data breach that may have exposed sensitive information from about 70,000 users. The incident resulted from a security compromise at a third-party service provider that handles the platform’s age verification appeals. When Discord suspects a user might be underage or when local laws
Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs
Some Stripe Atlas customers have recently received a letter called “Notice of Data Breach”. Stripe Atlas discovered on December 11, 2019, that their service provider Legalinc Corporate Services Inc. (“Legalinc”) had a security vulnerability in its document storage system. Stripe Atlas states that they have no evidence
Avast forum hacked, 400 000 accounts affected
In Cyber Crime
Avast announced today on it’s blog that the avast forum was hacked. The forum suffered a serious security breach and 0.2% of it’s 200 millions customer accounts were affected. Near 400 000 avast accounts were affected by this cyber attack. In this way the user nicknames, user
