Hacks

     2019 is now almost over. Let's have a go through to the biggest data breaches of 2019.  SBI QUICK: India’s largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), left one of its servers unprotected which exposed the data of its 422 million customers. The server, situated in Mumbai, contained partial bank account numbers, bank balances and phones of individuals using the bank’s SBI Quick service. Techcrunch’s investigation revealed that the back-end text message system was left unprotected allowing anyone to track text messages coming in and going out in real-time. On a single day, SBI Quick sends out nearly three million text messages — and database archives had messages dating back to December 2018. The bank has denied all reports of a data breach and has since secured the server. Indian HealthCare Website FireEye spotted that a hacker by the name of ‘fallensky519’ stole the data of 6.8 million users from an Indian healthcare website in February. ...

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website. The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via email and published a brief FAQ page to disclose information about the security incident. According to OnePlus, the company discovered the breach just last week after an unauthorized party accessed order information of its customers, including their names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses. "Last week while monitoring our systems, our security team discovered that some of our users' order information was accessed by an unauthorized party," the  company said . OnePlus also assured that not all customers were affected and that the attackers were not able to access any payment information, passwords, and associated accounts. "Impacted users may receive spam an...