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French Subscribers to Famous News Site at Risk from Hacking, Fraud
The security research team at Security Detectives, led by Anurag Sen, has uncovered a significant data leak from French daily newspaper Le Figaro.
Hosted on an Elasticsearch server owned by Poney Telecom in France, the leaking...
LGBTQ+ Online Scams: How to Spot Them and Stay Safe from Harm
The internet is a wonderful but sometimes scary place to be. Many of us are at greater risk online than we truly realize.
Scammers, fraudsters, and hackers prowl the internet looking for easy targets. And they’re clever. Wh...
Cybersecurity vulnerability at major cosmetics brand leads to 7 gigabytes+ data leak
One of the world’s well-known cosmetic brands has been informed that a significant data breach was discovered on its web server, which was found to be publicly exposed, without password protection or encryption.
Our security te...
The Best Travel Destinations Every Month of The Year
Imagine booking a vacation in June in Sri Lanka and thinking you’ll get wall-to-wall sunshine (because why wouldn’t you - it’s Sri Lanka, right?), only to find that June-September is monsoon season. A rain poncho isn’t going t...
Brazil: Millions of Records Leaked, Including Biometric Data
The security research team at SafetyDetectives has discovered a significant data leak in addition to other security flaws (such as lack of password protection) relating to fingerprint data on an Antheus log server in Brazil.
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Australian sports fan portal leaks 132GB of private data
An active Australian sports fan site with over 100,000 members has leaked a large volume of private data.
Our security team discovered multiple instances of personal private information made available to the public within the c...
Major German shopping site leaks customer data
A publicly-listed multinational retailer with millions of dollars in annual revenues was discovered to be operating a completely unsecured server, thereby publicly exposing private data belonging to around 700,000 of its customers...
Quarter of a million customers exposed as Brazilian cosmetics brand suffers data leak
One of the leading online retailers in Brazil, Natura&Co, has been informed of a significant data leak within its website, https://www.natura.com.br.
More than 250,000 customers that had previously ordered beauty products f...
Dutch Fishing Outlet Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customers
The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team found an unsecured Microsoft Azure Blob Storage server belonging to retail outlet Raven Hengelsport (otherwise known as Raven Fishing B.V.), with PII for hundreds of thousands of customers l...
Brazilian Integrator Platform Leaked Over 1.75 Billion Sensitive Files
Intro
The Safety Detectives cybersecurity team, led by Anurag Sen, uncovered a critical data leak affecting the Brazilian Marketplace Integrator platform Hariexpress.com.br.
According to the company’s website, Hariexpress inte...