130,000 plain text leaked in a Finnish business center
According to the local newspaper Svenska, more than 130,000 plain text records, formed by username and password, have been leaked from a web portal owned by "New Business Center in Helsinki", a company that provides advice to other entrepreneurs.
The data leak was detected on April 3 at a periodic check carried out by the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA). Once the owners of the portal knew the information leaked, they closed the affected web portal and informed the Police so that they could investigate what happened.
References:
- 06/04/2018 thehackernews.com Finland's 3rd Largest Data Breach Exposes 130,000 Users' Plaintext Passwords
- 07/04/2018 securityaffairs.co 130,000 Finnish user data exposed in third largest data breach ever happened in the country
- 08/04/2018 gbhackers.com Largest data Breach – 130,000 Finnish Username and Password’s Stolen by Hackers