Vilius Petkauskas

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iPhone AI app leaked user-generated NSFW stories

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

For the privacy savvy, generating adult content online is rarely a good idea. For example, Apple App Store’s Novel AI: Book Creator leaked its Firebase database, revealing that its users generated far spicier stuff than your average ghost story.
Ex-Ameriprise advisor exposes thousands of client records

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Ameriprise Financial, a Fortune 500 firm and American financial sector veteran, has informed thousands of customers that an ex-employee's mistake revealed their personal details. Not every data breach is hacker-made. Sometimes, customer details are exposed in a less malicious way. For example, ex-employees share more about you than they were supposed to. As the company’s data breach notification letter indicates, Ameriprise Financial found itself in a situation just like this.
4chan goes dark as alleged hacker attacks takes the website down

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Users have been unable to access 4chan since early Tuesday, with complaints flooding outage monitoring sites. Security researchers claim the outage may be linked to a “comprehensive hack.”The outage has been reported since the early hours of Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting the site is inaccessible on Downdetector.com, a website outage monitoring site. Some users theorized that a data breach could be responsible for the unexpected outage.
Major business services provider Conduent confirms hackers stole clients’ customer details

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

American business service behemoth Conduent has confirmed the January data breach resulted in hackers stealing customer details, although there’s no evidence that the info was leaked online. The attack hit the company in mid-January this year, Conduent confirmed on a FORM-8K filing with the SEC. Attackers penetrated digital defenses and accessed a “limited portion” of Conduent’s environment. Several of Conduent’s clients experienced disruption in the initial days of the attack.
Black Friday IKEA ransomware attack cost company millions

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Fourlis Group, a company operating IKEA stores in several European countries, said the hacker attack cost it tens of millions of dollars. Attackers breached the company’s systems two days before last year’s Black Friday, impacting Fourlis Group assets in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Romania. While at the time of the attack, it was unclear which part of the company’s business was affected, it turns out its IKEA stores were.
Aircraft parts maker breach leaves personal data up in the air

1 week ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Mercury Corp., a US-headquartered manufacturing company, had attackers breach its hull to take personal details, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers. The attackers broke through the company’s defenses in mid-February this year, Mercury Corp. announced via a breach notification letter sent to potentially impacted individuals. They didn’t roam the firms’ systems for long, the letter reads, spending only around one day inside.
17,000,000 GrubHub passwords and other data allegedly exposed

2 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Attackers claim they have their hands on a whopping 70 million lines of GrubHub’s data, including millions of hashed passwords, phone numbers, and email addresses. The company did report a data breach in early February. Cybercrooks posted an ad for data on a data leak forum, claiming responsibility for the GrubHub data breach earlier this year. The online food delivery platform announced it indeed suffered a data breach via a third-party service provider in February.
British postal service targeted in alleged hacker attack

3 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Attackers say they breached the British postal service last month, scooping a whopping 144 gigabytes of data, including confidential documents and customer names and addresses. The message announcing the alleged breach was posted on a popular data leak forum during the last hours of March 2025. Threat actors claim to have stolen a treasure trove of sensitive data, including recorded video meetings between Royal Mail and its partners.
FacePass security lapse exposes users' identification data

4 weeks ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

FacePass, a Brazil-focused app used for identification purposes, has leaked over 1.6 million files, exposing users and the company’s system credentials. As many of us who’ve confirmed identity using an app know, trusting it to prioritize security is important. However, the Cybernews research team recently discovered an exposed AWS S3 bucket belonging to FacePass, which was leaking sensitive customer and company files.
Sydney Tools hammered by massive customer data exposure

1 month ago | cybernews.com | Vilius Petkauskas

Sydney Tools, Australia’s Home Depot equivalent, has exposed data on tens of millions of online orders, revealing customer names, home addresses, and other details. Self-reliance doesn’t end with perfecting the DIY lifestyle – fixing digital holes is just as important. Take professional tools wholesaler and retailer Sydney Tool as an example. It left a database unprotected, leaking employee and customer data.