While the issue of the hacker attack involving Intesa Sanpaolo is taking center stage in Italy , another situation related to cybersecurity is attracting attention globally. In fact, reference is made to a data breach involving 2.7 billion records .
As originally reported on February 12, 2025 by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler on the vpnMentor portal , as well as reported by Wccftech on February 17, a major data breach recently hit the Chinese company Mars Hydro , a manufacturer of products for hydroponics and indoor growing. In short, we enter the IoT field.
The cause of the data breach is to be found in a database not protected by a password , which has exposed sensitive user data. Among the information involved, we find details relating to smartphones and operating systems used (such as Android and iOS). There is also no shortage of names of Wi-Fi SSID networks and their passwords. As well as email addresses and IP addresses have been exposed.
Such a situation could even lead to man-in-the-middle attacks , given the content of the database. However, there is currently little information about a possible malicious use of the data in question by attackers.
Staying in the cybersecurity field , but moving away from issues related to data breaches. You might be interested in taking a look at the latest developments in the Paragon case .https://youtube.com/shorts/VQHvcUZErSo?si=5yHl2Ikbr3m-YdVI