#Breach 2020 Offline#

The digital assault took thousands of websites offline in Georgia, including government pages, and also disrupted television broadcasts. As a user of one of these apps, you don’t expect that others outside the app would be able to see and download the data.'Ģ019 Cyberattack on Georgia Attributed to RussiaĪ massive cyberattack on Georgia in October 2019 was perpetrated by hackers from Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, according to a joint attribution made in February by Georgia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. 'The risk of doxing that exists with this kind of thing is very real-extortion, psychological abuse. 'We were amazed by the size and how sensitive the data was,' Locar told WIRED in June. It is unknown if anyone aside from the researchers found and stole the data while it was exposed, though. Then the data was all locked down simultaneously and became inaccessible. The researchers submitted their findings through generic web forms on a couple of the apps' websites and received a brief initial response. Some list Cheng Du New Tech Zone as their developer in the Google Play Store. The researchers found that all the apps seem to share a developer. In some cases, as with Herpes Dating, the exposure potentially compromised users' health status information. Though the incident is not known to have resulted in a hack or breach, the exposure is still particularly significant, because the dating apps-3somes, Cougary, Gay Daddy Bear, Xpal, BBW Dating, Casualx, SugarD, Herpes Dating, and GHunt-cater to specific populations. The trove represented 2.5 million individual records that were likely linked to hundreds of thousands of users.

In May, security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a total of 845 gigabytes of user data from nine specialized dating apps sitting open and accessible on the public internet.

Breach 2020