Julian Assange

When companies like Facebook can suffer data breaches, it is a good idea for smaller firms to step up their security game. This advice unbeknownst to an Ecuadorian data analytics firm named Novaestrat has resulted in the leakage of the personal information of…

Police raids after data on most of Ecuador’s citizens leaks online

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden took potshots at President Donald Trump during an interview Monday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” with Brian Williams. Snowden, who has been in exile in Russia to avoid prosecution in the United States, discussed ev…

Millions of Ecuadorians are at risk of identity theft because a security breach exposed a trove of data including names, phone numbers and birth dates, a cyber security firm said Monday. Researchers at vpnMentor said the problem stemmed from an unsecured ser…

The personal information of almost every single person in Ecuador, as well as that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been leaked through a major database breach, according to two security researchers who work for web privacy firm vpnMentor. The breach…

The personal data of almost every citizen of Ecuador has been leaked online in a catastrophic data breach.  The names, phone numbers, and financial information of approximately 20 million Ecuadoreans were found on an unsecured cloud server by researchers wor…

Tommy Robinson has announced his support for Julian Assange after being freed from prison.  The English Defence League (EDL) founder claimed the pair spoke inside HMP Belmarsh, where he spent nine weeks for contempt of court. In a message to followers on th…

Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Data were left unsecured online on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, exposed data includes full PII, marital s…

Headlines for September 16, 2019

Two security researchers working for vpnMentor, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have an impressive record of uncovering massive data leaks. Now the dynamic duo has, with the help of ZDNet reporter Catalin Cimpanu, exposed one of the most mind-boggling security blun…