56.25M US Residents’ CheckPeople Records Exposed on Chinese Server Data from CheckPeople, a subscription-based service that allows users to search for certain information of other individuals, was recently exposed on a server with a Chinese IP address. The leaked data includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, ages, names of relatives, criminal records, and more. …

Sodinokibi Ransomware Hits Travelex, Demands $3 Million On December 31, Travelex, an international foreign currency exchange company, fell victim to a cyberattack that temporarily affected several services within the organization. …

Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers Last week, Wyze, a cost-effective home-security system company, experienced a large-scale breach impacting 2.4 million customers. Cybersecurity consulting firm Twelve Security notified Wyze about the breach, stating that Wi-Fi network details and email addresses of customers had been exposed for a total of 23 days. …

9-Month Data Breach Affects Millions of Wawa Customers Last week, Wawa announced that millions of customers might have had their credit or debit card information stolen in a data breach impacting almost all of their store locations. According to the report, malware, which originated on March 4, was discovered on Wawa’s payment processing servers on December 10…

New Orleans Declares State of Emergency Following Ransomware Attack Another ransomware attack has claimed a new victim; this time New Orleans has been forced to shut down its computers after a cyberattack. According to a press conference by Kim LaGrue, the city’s head of IT, suspicious activity was discovered around 5 a.m. last Friday. …

Data of 21 Million Mixcloud Users up for Sale on the Dark Web Online music streaming service Mixcloud confirmed last Saturday that it had experienced a data breach affecting 21 million users. And the hacker behind the breach has contacted several journalists, providing data samples to prove its legitimacy. The stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords, registration dates, IP addresses…

Extensive Hacking Operation Discovered in Kazakhstan Last Friday, Qihoo 360, a Chinese cybersecurity vendor, published a report exposing an extensive hacking operation focusing on people in Kazakhstan. Targets include government agencies, foreign diplomats, researchers, journalists, and government dissidents, among others. …

New WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Hackers Secretly Install Spyware on Your Device Yet again, WhatsApp is experiencing troubles related to the security infrastructure of its messaging platform. Last month, the company quietly patched another critical vulnerability which allowed a malicious actor to compromise devices remotely. The vulnerability, CVE-2019–1193, is a stack-based buffer overflow issue that resides in the way WhatsApp parses…

Amazon’s Ring Video Doorbell Lets Attackers Steal Your Wi-Fi Password Bitdefender security researchers have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring Video Doorbell Pro devices that allows nearby criminals to steal your Wi-Fi password, among other cyberattacks. …