Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained names, phone numbers, and email addresses of nearly 300,000 taxi passengers in the UK and Ireland. The records belonged to Dublin-based iCabbi, a dispatch and fleet
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Over 14 million internet browser cookies linked to UK consumers have been leaked onto the dark web. A recent study from NordVPN revealed the leak. This disclosure is part of a larger global issue, with more than 54 billion cookies found leaked worldwide, impacting users in 244
On the 1st of February 2024, the popular survey platform, SurveyLama, suffered a data breach, compromising 4.4 million users’ information. The information implicated in the breach includes users’ email addresses, names, passwords, and more. The creator of Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt, was
The Indian government's cloud service, S3WaaS, has exposed the sensitive personal information of its citizens for years. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sourajeet Majumder discovered the issue, revealing that Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details were among
The video game publisher Activision is currently investigating a sophisticated malware campaign designed to steal login credentials from gamers, particularly affecting players of its flagship title, Call of Duty. The malware, which also targets cryptocurrency wallets, has been implicated in the
AT&T has confirmed a data breach affecting over 73 million of its current and former customers. This breach, which saw sensitive customer information leaked onto the dark web, has prompted the telecommunications giant to reset the passcodes of millions of customer accounts in a bid to secure
A recent report by HUMAN's Satori team uncovered 28 free VPN applications available on Google Play that are covertly transforming devices into residential proxies. In other words, it allows malicious threat actors to route third-party traffic through user’s devices without their knowledge or
A covert operation undertaken by Facebook, known internally as "Project Ghostbusters," has been exposed, revealing the company performed secret surveillance on Snapchat's network traffic. This was done to covertly analyze user behavior and gain a competitive edge. Initiated in 2016, this secretive
Over 100 organizations across the European Union and the United States have been targeted by a sophisticated malware known as StrelaStealer. This information-stealing malware, designed to harvest email credentials from popular email clients, has seen a surge in activity through large-scale phishing
VPN demand in Spain surged twice in three weeks — rising by 330% on March 8, one day before an opposition protest in Madrid, and by 150% on March 23, after a court ruling temporarily banned Telegram in the country. The graph below shows the VPN demand in Spain from March 1 to March 27. VPN