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[German]The Credit Scores of Millions of Americans has been exposed via a faulty API of credit reporting company Experian, as Krebs on Security reported here. A name and an email address was sufficient, to snoop into the credit score of tens of millions of Americans. Although Experian says it has plugged the data leak, the security expert who has uncovered this leak, fears, that other lending websites, who are using this API are still suffering from thes vulnerability.

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[German]Swiss cloud provider, Swiss Cloud AG, fell victim to a cyber attack at the end of April 2021 – according to my information, it was a ransomware attack that brought the company to its knees. Here is a rough overview of what is known and confirmed by Swiss Cloud AG.

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[German]Emotet malware (Trojan and ransomware) has been quite successful and has collected million email addresses and access data on compromised systems. As of April 25, 2021, the Emotet malware was automatically removed from Windows machines. Now, the FBI has handed over 4 million email addresses that they logged with during the seizure to the website Have I Been Pwned. There you can check if the addresses are compromised.

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