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| Jan 10, 2017 | Hackers steal data from 1.5 million user accounts after esports company refuses to pay ransom | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hackers continue to use ransomware to attack and extort businesses and other organizations, highlighting the dangers of failing to put ... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Hackers steal data from 1.5 million user accounts after esports company refuses to pay ransom | Hackers continue to use ransomware to attack and extort businesses and other organizations, highlighting the dangers of failing to put up adequate cyber defenses.
E-Sports Entertainment Association, a company that hosts competitive video ga... |
| Nov 14, 2016 | AdultFriendFinder hacked: 400 million accounts exposed | Enlarge reader comments 86 with 58 posters participating
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AdultFriendFinder has been hacked, revealing the account details of more than 400 million people who would undoubte... |
| Nov 14, 2016 | Massive FriendFinder hack compromises over 412 million accounts | An adult dating and porn company was hacked in what could be the biggest breach in internet history, a whistleblower said Monday.
The FriendFinder Networks of porn, swinger and casual hookup sites was attacked in October, resulting in the c... |
| Nov 13, 2016 | FriendFinder Networks hack reportedly exposed over 412 million accounts | If you have an account on AdultFriendFinder, Cams.com, Penthouse, Stripshow and/or iCams.com — and reused it on other sites — you should probably change your password. FriendFinder Networks, the parent company of those sites, has reportedly... |
| Nov 13, 2016 | AdultFriendFinder Data Breach Exposes 300M Accounts, Even Those Deleted: Ashley Madison Hack Suddenly Seems Small | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 13 November 2016, 08:11 pm
More than 300 AdultFriendFinder accounts have reportedly been exposed in a massive data breach that hit adult dating service Friend Finder Network.
The large Friend Finder Network has... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Website creator Weebly leaks over 43 million accounts | One of the world's most popular personal and business website creation platforms, Weebly, has suffered a data breach believed to affect over 43 million user accounts.
The company confirmed the breach to iTnews.
"Weebly recently became ... |
| Sep 22, 2016 | Purported data from 200 million Yahoo accounts may be legit | In the security weeds? Yahoo won't yet comment.
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[Update, 3:30 PM ET— Yahoo has revealed that "information a... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Growing number of cyber attacks suggests no one is safe | I've been at CloudSec 2016 in London, listening to various security professionals from the likes of Trend Micro and Microsoft talk about the challenges businesses face in securing their data in the cloud.
As you could probably have guessed,... |
| Sep 6, 2016 | More passwords, please: 98 million leaked from 2012 breach of “Russia’s Yahoo” | Enlarge
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Another major site breach from four years ago has resurfaced. Today, LeakedS... |
| Sep 4, 2016 | 43 million Last.fm account details leaked after 2012 hack | It seems that serious data breaches are all but an everyday occurrence at the moment. At the same time, there have also been instances of historical hacks suddenly coming to light such as the 2012 breach of Dropbox.
But Dropbox was not the ... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Over 40 million usernames, passwords from 2012 breach of Last.fm surface | Enlarge / If you haven't changed your password for Last.fm since 2012, it's long past time—the passwords are now easily grabbed from the Internet. reader comments 29 with 20 posters participating
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| Sep 1, 2016 | 43 million passwords hacked in Last.fm breach | Crikey: 43,570,999 user accounts were breached in a hack of Last.fm that occurred in March of 2012, according to a report from LeakedSource. Three months after the breach, in June of 2012, Last.fm issued the following statement:
“We are cur... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Clash of Kings forum hacked — data leaked on 1.6M accounts | Another hack has hit a gaming community.
Cyberattackers were able to get details for 1.6 million accounts from the official forums for the mobile strategy game Clash of Kings, according to data on breach-tracking site LeakedSource (via ZDNe... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Clash of Kings forum hacked — data leaked on 1.6M accounts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Another hack has hit a gaming community.
Cyberattackers were able to get details for 1.6 million accounts from the official forums for ... |
| Jun 14, 2016 | Hackers Make Off With Over 40 Million Passwords From 1,000 Sites | Hackers have stolen the personal data, including usernames, passwords, email addresses, and IP addresses of more than 45 million people who are members of car, sports, and tech sites such as AutoGuide.com, Motorcycle.com and Techsupportforu... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | RIAA-Approved File-Sharing Service Hacked, 51m User Details Leaked | Back in 2003, when file-sharing technology was still in its relative infancy, several platforms had aspirations of becoming the next Napster. One of those was Israel-based iMesh, which at four years old was practically a veteran already.
Bu... |
| Jun 10, 2016 | Twitter denies stolen account passwords came from its servers and issues security advice | In recent days the internet has been abuzz with news that credentials for millions of Twitter accounts have been put up for sale on the Dark Web. Despite the online chatter about what many people assumed to be a security breach, Twitter cho... |
| Jun 10, 2016 | Twitter Says It Was Not Hacked, But It's Locking Accounts After 32M User Credentials Surfaced Online | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 10 June 2016, 11:06 pm
In what sounds like the perfect material for an internet meme, Twitter started filling with rumors about a security breach yesterday afternoon.
As a result, digital experts urged users to m... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Be wary of claims that 32 million Twitter passwords are circulating online | Matthew Keys reader comments 44 with 36 posters participating
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The jury is still out, but at this early stage, there's good reason to doubt the legitimacy of claims that mor... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Your Shitty Password Hygiene Is Spreading Hacks Like a Contagion | Tens of millions of Twitter logins are being traded on the digital underground, but Twitter says it was not hacked.
So how could the logins have been obtained? One candidate: password reuse—that is, people affected by data breaches at other... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | You need to change your Twitter password right this minute | Originally Published by:
Welcome to the internet age, where hackers are getting smarter every day and malware is lurking around every corner. We’ve seen a terrifying amount of big data breaches occur over the past few years, and each one se... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | How Twitter secured accounts after user credentials were sold online | Rumors of a Twitter breach started circulating yesterday afternoon, fittingly, on Twitter . Security researchers cautioned users to change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication, a feature that requires a user to verify their ... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Hacker Linked To MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn Breaches Now Selling 32 Million Twitter Accounts For 10 Bitcoins | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 09 June 2016, 07:06 am
A hacker linked to the data breaches that affected MySpace, Tumblr and LinkedIn is now selling millions of accounts on social media platform Twitter for bitcoins.
The Russian hacker, who is kn... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Warning: Change your Twitter password immediately | Welcome to the internet age, where hackers are getting smarter every day and malware is lurking around every corner. We’ve seen a terrifying amount of big data breaches occur over the past few years, and each one seems bigger and scarier th... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked | There is yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. Hackers may have used malware to collect more than 32 million Twitter login credentials that are now being sold on the dark web. Twitter says that its systems... |
| Jun 5, 2016 | Another Day, Another Hack: 100 Million Accounts for VK, Russia's Facebook | Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground.
Breach notification site LeakedSource obtained the data and published an analysis on Sunday. The hacker known as Peace, mea... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Another Day, Another Hack: User Accounts of Dating Site Badoo | User accounts for dating site Badoo are being traded in the digital underground, including email address, cracked passwords, names, and dates of birth.
Paid subscription-based breach monitoring site 'Leaked Source' uploaded the dataset on T... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all | Laurie Harker, Minneapolis Star Tribune / Getty Images reader comments 173 with 99 posters participating
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Jeremi M Gosney (@jmgosney) is a world-renowned password cracker an... |
| May 31, 2016 | Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet | You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. Time, Inc. acquired it and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’... |
| May 30, 2016 | More Than 427 Million MySpace Passwords Get Leaked, Hacker Selling Them For 6 Bitcoin | Dave Calpito, Tech Times 30 May 2016, 08:05 pm
If you have an account on MySpace.com, you have to know that more than 427 million passwords of this social network have been leaked on the Internet, and that the hacker has put them up for sal... |
| May 29, 2016 | MySpace breach potentially the largest ever | The login details of more than 360 million MySpace accounts have been leaked on the web, in what could be the largest data breach seen so far.
According to LeakedSource, which claims to have over 1.6 billion records in its database, the MyS... |
| May 27, 2016 | Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Milllion Stolen MySpace Passwords For $2,800 | There's an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don't yet know they have been hacked.
MySpace, the social media behemoth that was, is apparently in t... |
| May 20, 2016 | Change your LinkedIn password right now | Remember when LinkedIn was hacked a few years ago and the company confirmed that login credentials and other data belonging to 6.5 million accounts were stolen? Well, it turns out that figure might have been a little low. OK it was very, ve... |
| May 20, 2016 | Change your LinkedIn password right now | Originally Published by:
More on: New app can tell you if your iPhone might've been hacked Act surprised: There's a new zero-day Flash exploit you need to fix right now Clever hackers can steal money directly from banks, ignoring customer a... |
| May 19, 2016 | Hacker Site Removes 117 Million LinkedIn Passwords After Legal Threat | LinkedIn has successfully persuaded a hacker website to remove user passwords exposed during a data breach in 2012, which have resurfaced on the dark web this week.
The website, called LeakedSource, claims to have the full database of leake... |
| May 18, 2016 | Then there were 117 million. LinkedIn password breach much bigger than thought | Enlarge
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Login credentials for as many as 117 million LinkedIn accounts have been put up for sale online by someone... |
| May 18, 2016 | Another Day, Another Hack: 117 Million LinkedIn Emails And Passwords | Quite literally, every day someone gets hacked. Whether that's a telecommunications company having its customer data stolen, or another chain of businesses being ripped for all the credit cards it processes, today one hack just seems to mel... |
| Данные о 98 млн аккаунтов Rambler просочились в сеть | В блоге Leakedsourse.com сообщается, что база данных была проверена при помощи журналиста издания xakep.ru Марии Нефедовой: трое ее друзей получили логины и пароли от своих аккаунтов, которые на 100% совпали с реальными данными.
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| СМИ: Взломаны 100 млн аккаунтов «ВКонтакте» | СМИ: Взломаны 100 млн аккаунтов «ВКонтакте»
06 Июня, 2016, 09:05
Ольга Карпенко
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На сайте LeakedSource, где часто публикуются данные об утечках, появилось сообщение о том, что была взломана сеть «ВКонтакте». В этой базе 100 544 934 а... |
| Хакер взломал 32 млн Twitter-аккаунтов и продает их за 10 биткоинов | Хакер взломал 32 млн Twitter-аккаунтов и продает их за 10 биткоинов
09 Июня, 2016, 13:00
Майя Яровая
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Не успела осесть пыль после новости о масштабном сливе данных пользователей «ВКонтакте», как тот же хакер хвастается снова. На этот ... |
| У Rambler выкрали около 100 млн паролей в виде незашифрованного текста | У Rambler выкрали около 100 млн паролей в виде незашифрованного текста
06 Сентября, 2016, 13:00
Ольга Карпенко
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Данные около 100 млн учетных записей российского почтового сервиса Rambler недавно утекли в онлайн. Эти данные были получены... |
| Warning: Change your Twitter password immediately | Welcome to the internet age, where hackers are getting smarter every day and malware is lurking around every corner. We’ve seen a terrifying amount of big data breaches occur over the past few years, and each one seems bigger and scarier th... |
| Данные о 100 млн пользователей ВКонтакте продаются на черном рынке | Портал Motherboard проверил данные: в 92 случаях из 100 пароли соответствуют действительности. Один из пострадавших пользователей также подтвердил, что данные верны.
Сайт был взломан между 2011 и 2013 годами, но когда именно — неясно. У Pea... |
| Change your LinkedIn password right now | Remember when LinkedIn was hacked a few years ago and the company confirmed that login credentials and other data belonging to 6.5 million accounts were stolen? Well, it turns out that figure might have been a little low. OK it was very, ve... |