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Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 191 Million U.S. Voters Due to Database Misconfiguration

BREAKING NEWS: A misconfigured database has led to the exposure of approximately 191 million voter records, which include sensitive information such as full names, addresses, unique voter IDs, birth dates, and phone numbers. This alarming discovery was made on December 20th by Chris Vickery, a noted white-hat hacker, who found…

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Hacker Exposes Personal Data of 30,000 Employees from FBI and DHS

A significant data breach has occurred, reportedly orchestrated by an unidentified hacker who has leaked a substantial repository of sensitive information concerning federal employees. The compromised data includes the personal details of approximately 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers. This breach…

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GoFundMe Violates Its Own Policies by Hosting Legal Defense Fund for ICE Agent Involved in Renee Good’s Death

GoFundMe Campaign for ICE Officer’s Legal Defense Raises Concerns Over Policy Violation GoFundMe, a prominent crowdfunding platform, is maintaining a fundraising campaign aimed at covering the potential legal fees of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer involved in a civilian’s fatal shooting. This decision has sparked debate, as the…

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Bank Servers Compromised to Manipulate ATMs into Dispensing Millions in Cash

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, and the Treasury, has issued a technical alert regarding a rising threat from the North Korean Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as Hidden Cobra. This group, also referred to as…

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FBI Arrests Two Hackers for Breaching US Spy Chief and CIA Director’s Accounts

In a significant development in cybersecurity, U.S. authorities have apprehended two men from North Carolina, Andrew Otto Boggs, 22, and Justin Gray Liverman, 24. They are believed to be connected to the infamous hacking collective known as “Crackas With Attitude.” This group is notorious for a series of high-profile hacks…

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Microsoft Alerts on Nation-State Hackers Targeting Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability

Microsoft has recently identified a link between the exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, marked as CVE-2023-22515, and a state-sponsored group known as Storm-0062 (also referred to as DarkShadow or Oro0lxy). This critical flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability that has been actively exploited…

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