A major data leak at the Tech Data Corporation NASDAQ was discovered by the research team at vpnMentor. The breach exposed access to 264GB of Tech Data’s client servers, invoices, SAP integrations, plain-text passwords. This contained email and personal user data, as well as reseller contact and invoice information, payment and credit card data, internal security logs, unencrypted logins and passwords, and more. This was a serious leak as far as we could see, so much so that all of the credentials needed to log in to customer accounts were available.

Two Russian men convicted of their involvement in a massive hack of the Nasdaq stock exchange, Citibank, and other major companies have been given hefty sentences. The two men, Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitriy Smilianets, pleaded guilty in 2015. Drinkman was sentenced to 144 months, while Smilianets was given 51 months.