Compromised Credentials
Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed to have compromised the system. The disclosure comes after the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed it breached the DAVID database and stole more than 200,000 driver records. “On September 4, […]
OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach
In a new update, OpenAI says its AI models also used publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services during the recent attack on Hugging Face, expanding the scope of the four-day security incident to other organizations. One account was used as an outbound relay and staging server during the attack, while another […]
University of Pennsylvania confirms data stolen in cyberattack
The University of Pennsylvania has confirmed that a hacker breached numerous internal systems related to the university’s development and alumni activities and stole data in a cyberattack. In a new statement, Penn confirmed GeekFeed’s reporting that the hackers breached its systems using compromised credentials, stating they were stolen in a social engineering attack. “On October 31, Penn discovered that […]