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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Unauthorized access to Nintendo accounts

Nintendo has confirmed, through an official statement, that more than 160,000 user accounts have been compromised since the beginning of April, through the use of the login system through the...

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twitter.com

threatpost.com

scmagazine.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

osi.es

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Data from millions of Aptoide users exposed

Aptoide, an alternative market for mobile applications that runs on the Android operating system, has been the victim of a cyberattack that has led to the leakage of information from the data of 20...

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blog.aptoide.com

zdnet.com

xatakandroid.com

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Let’s Encrypt bug in issuance of certificates

The certification authority, Let’s Encrypt, has reported a bug in its CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) code, specifically on Boulder, the CA (Certification Authority) software...

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community.letsencrypt.org

letsencrypt.org

unaaldia.hispasec.com

threatpost.com

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Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

Comparitech, a technology services research and comparison company, has published an article detailing the exposure of 7 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts.Information displayed, stored in a non...

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theblog.adobe.com

comparitech.com

genbeta.com

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Cloud computing

Information leakage

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NordVPN suffers from unauthorised access to a data centre

NordVPN, a VPN provider, has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack in March 2018 that gained unauthorized access to one of the data centers of a provider in Finland where its service was...

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nordvpn.com

torguard.net

techcrunch.com

genbeta.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Security breach in Imperva

Imperva, provider of cybersecurity services, has suffered a security incident allowing an exposure of information that has affected its product Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF), formerly known...

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imperva.com

thehackernews.com

zdnet.com

seguridadyfirewall.cl

zdnet.com

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Hostinger, victim of an information leak

Hostinger, a hosting and domain service, had to reset the passwords of 14 million users as a protection measure after suffering a cyber attack that led to a massive data leak.According to company...

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hostinger.com

techcrunch.com

redeszone.net

fossbytes.com

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Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Transport for London (TfL), the agency responsible for public transport in the British capital, revealed that some contactless card accounts in Oyster, the payment system for transport, were...

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twitter.com

theregister.co.uk

bbc.com

wired.co.uk

noticiasseguridad.com

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Information leakage

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Security incident at WeTransfer causes information leakage

WeTransfer, a file-sharing platform, has issued a statement reporting a security incident on June 16 and 17 and, as a result, could not guarantee that the shipments of 232,000 users have reached...

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wetransfer.pr.co

bleepingcomputer.com

techradar.com

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Information leakage

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Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

Willem de Groot, researcher at Sanguine Security, has discovered that a group of cyberattackers have managed to take control of two web add-ons: the Picreel web analytics service and the Alpaca...

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twitter.com

zdnet.com

omicrono.elespanol.com

genbeta.com

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Cybersecurity Highlights

Unauthorized access to Nintendo accounts

Data from millions of Aptoide users exposed

Let’s Encrypt bug in issuance of certificates

Exposed Adobe Creative Cloud user data

NordVPN suffers from unauthorised access to a data centre

Security breach in Imperva

Hostinger, victim of an information leak

Cyberattack on London's Oyster transport payment system

Security incident at WeTransfer causes information leakage

Thousands of websites infected for the purpose of collecting users information

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