21 January 2021, 9:05 pm EST By Government Given Laptops Found to Have Russian-Linked Viruses ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website )
Schools all around the UK have recently found out that the laptops that were given by the government actually arrived with certain viruses on them. These viruses were linked to servers over in Russia which then raised concerns that the hackers could in fact steal students vulnerable data.
Russian hackers
According to the story by Telegraph, Employees over at the Bradford school had received a number of laptops aimed to help vulnerable students be able to study at home. An online forum then suggested that these machines actually contain malware that was installed by hackers.
11 January 2021, 8:29 pm EST By Over 400GB of 214 Million Social Media Users Have Been Exposed by Misconfiguration from Chinese Company SocialArks ( Screenshot From Pxhere Official Website )
Over 400GB of a mixed private and public profile data coming from 214 million Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Other social media users coming from all around the world has recently been exposed to the internet. This includes certain details for even social-media influencers and celebrities coming from the United States and other places.
Social media user data leaked
According to an article by ThreatPost, this leak now stems from a certain misconfigured ElasticSearch database that is owned by the Chinese social-media management company known as SocialArks, which was said to contain personally identifiable information or PII coming from Facebook, LinkedIn, I