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A data breach involving 7.5 million subscribers has been confirmed by a Russian streaming provider ‘START’

‘START’ (start.ru), a Russian media streaming platform, has confirmed rumors of a data breach affecting millions of users. Network intruders stole a 2021 database from the platform’s infrastructure and are currently sharing samples online, according to the platform’s administrators. Email addresses, phone numbers, and usernames were all stolen from the database. START considers it uninteresting […]

Security Researcher informs public exposure of 250M+ Indian UAN database records of EPFO

Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko of SecurityDiscover recently discovered major public data exposure through his organization’s systems. On 2nd August 2022, the security researcher found 2 distinct IP addresses with password-less Elasticsearch clusters that contained indices called UAN.  UAN (Universal Account Number) is an important part of the Indian government registry. The Employees’ Fund Organization (EPFO) allots […]