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The SafetyDetectives research lab is a pro bono service that aims to help the online community defend itself against cyber threats while educating organizations on how to protect their users’ data. The overarching purpose of our web mapping project is to help make the internet a safer place for all users
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Dark Web: The Average Cost of Buying a New Identity in 2024
The people you see on a daily basis — the barista who makes your coffee, the bus driver who takes your kids to school, and the neighbor who waves to you each morning — could all be using fake identities to hide an unsavory past. J...
Brazilian Software Company Leaks Extensive Visitor Data
The SafetyDetectives research team discovered a significant data leak affecting the Brazilian software company WSpot.
WSpot provides a WiFi management solution that allows businesses to control various functions of their on-pre...
Social Analytics Platform’s Leak Reveals Data Scraping
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The Safety Detectives cybersecurity team, led by head researcher Anurag Sen, discovered an unsecured ElasticSearch server belonging to the social media analytics site IGBlade.com. The server contained scraped data on millio...
US casting site leaks personal data belonging to 260,000+ actors
Prominent US online casting agency MyCastingFile.com has leaked a significant volume of private data belonging to more than 260,000 users.
The company behind the site claims to have recruited talent for productions such as NCIS...
Facebook Scraped Data Issue Surfaces in Vietnam
The security research team, led by Anurag Sen, at Safety Detectives has uncovered a significant leak of Facebook data. As much as 3 gigabytes of scraped Facebook user data was found on an Elastic server, which raises additional co...
Multimillion-dollar Pakistani delivery company leaks 400+ million files
A prominent vehicle-for-hire and parcel delivery company based in Pakistan has suffered a significant data breach which affected its extensive user database.
The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team, led by head researcher Anura...
Microsoft Account Takeover Vulnerability Affecting 400 Million Users
During our first security investigation for critical vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft, we came across multiple vulnerabilities that, when chained together, allow an attacker to take over any Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Store,...
Report: Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password ‘P@$$w0rd’
SafetyDetective’s research lab discovered a leak online regarding the Ethiopian National Security Agency (INSA).
The hackers managed to easily scrape a few hundred of INSA agents’ email addresses and passwords, allowing them to...
Major Security Breach Discovered Affecting Nearly Half of All Airline Travelers Worldwide
Hacker and Activist Noam Rotem, working with Safety Detectives research lab, was shocked when he recently discovered a major vulnerability affecting nearly half of all airlines worldwide. While booking a flight with Israeli national carrier ELAL, he came across a significant security breach that allows anyone to access and change private information on flight bookings. The same breach was then discovered to include 44% of the international carriers market, potentially affecting tens of millions of travelers.
Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems
Updated February 12, 2019
Israeli hackers and activists Noam Rotem and Ran L from Safety Detectives research lab have uncovered a major security breach in temperature control systems manufactured by Resource Data Management, a Scotland-based remote monitoring solutions company.
These control systems are used by hospitals and supermarket chains all over the world, including Marks & Spencer, Ocado, Way-on, and many others.