Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.

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Leaked Bing search data through an Elasticsearch server

Ata Hakcil, a security researcher at WizCas, discovered an information leak in Microsoft's Bing search service. Through a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, 6.5TB of information from searches made...

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zdnet.com

blogs.masterhacks.net

wizcase.com

theregister.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Razer suffers an information leak that affects thousands of users

Razer, a Singapore-based multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services and gaming hardware, has accidentally exposed the personal...

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linkedin.com

arstechnica.com

theverge.com

europapress.es

hipertextual.com

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Freepik Company suffers credential theft due to SQL injection

Freepik Company, a company oriented to the search and purchase and sale of resources for designers such as photographs, icons or PSD templates, has suffered a security incident that affected its...

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freepik.com

bleepingcomputer.com

businessinsider.es

databreachtoday.com

welivesecurity.com

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Social Data exposes information from millions of social media profiles

Social Data, a company dedicated to the commercialization of data on influential profiles in social networks to marketers, has exposed a database of almost 235 million profiles of social networks...

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comparitech.com

forbes.com

adslzone.net

muycomputerpro.com

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The Carnival Corporation shipping company has suffered a ransomware attack

The world's largest cruise operator, Carnival Corporation, has released a statement reporting a ransomware-type cyberattack that accessed part of the IT systems of one of its brands and encrypted...

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carnivalcorp.com

bleepingcomputer.com

dailymail.co.uk

hosteltur.com

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Canada Revenue Agency suffers credential stuffing attacks

The CIO office of the Government of Canada has issued a statement in which it reports cyberattacks of credential stuffing directed against the GCKey service (single sign-on system used to access...

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canada.ca

bleepingcomputer.com

hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

cnnespanol.cnn.com

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SANS Institute, victim of an information leak due to a phishing attack

SANS Institute reported a leak of information with personal data of its users due to a fraudulent forwarding of emails from the mailbox of one of its employees. According to SANS, the failure was...

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sans.org

bleepingcomputer.com

securityweek.com

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20 GB of internal Intel documents found.

20 GB of confidential and "restricted access" Intel documents have been made public. The company believes that someone with access to the "Resource and Design Center" is responsible for this...

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xataka.com

zdnet.com

cyberscoop.com

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Holland & Knight, identity theft fraud victim

Holland & Knight, an American law firm, faces a million-dollar lawsuit after being accused of not having taken the necessary measures to prevent and identify a fraud that amounts to more than 3...

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abajournal.com

eleconomista.es

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Adif, hit by ransomware

Adif, a public company that manages railway infrastructures in Spain, acknowledged having suffered a ransomware-type cybercrime, executed by the group of cybercriminals known as REVil.This group...

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elconfidencial.com

businessinsider.es

abc.es

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Leaked Bing search data through an Elasticsearch server

Razer suffers an information leak that affects thousands of users

Freepik Company suffers credential theft due to SQL injection

Social Data exposes information from millions of social media profiles

The Carnival Corporation shipping company has suffered a ransomware attack

Canada Revenue Agency suffers credential stuffing attacks

SANS Institute, victim of an information leak due to a phishing attack

20 GB of internal Intel documents found.

Holland & Knight, identity theft fraud victim

Adif, hit by ransomware

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