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Code.org website leaked volunteers’ email addresses
Code.org, the non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in computer science, has admitted its website has been leaking volunteer email addresses. The discovery …
Source code of “game changer” Android banking malware leaked online
If you ask users and malware analysts, the Android threat landscape is wide enough, but unfortunately it’s likely to get even wider as source code for the GM Bot banking …
Linux Mint hack: Backdoored ISOs, stolen forums database
The web properties of the project developing Linux Mint have been compromised, and the attacker managed to put up a backdoored version of the distro for download for a little …
Info on 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees leaked following alleged DoJ hack
On Sunday, Motherboard reported that a hacker contacted them and claimed to have hacked into a US Department of Justice (DoJ) computer, exfiltrated 200GB of files, as well as …
Hackers claim to have hacked NASA, hijacked one of its drones
AnonSec hackers claim that they have breached a number of NASA’s systems, and they have published a data trove containing video recordings made by the agency’s …
UK activists dumps 2.5 GB of data stolen from US police union
Last Thursday, UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White has made available for download 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal …
Stolen medical information affects 18 out of 20 industries
Stolen medical information is a much more widespread issue than previously thought, affecting 18 out of 20 industries examined, according to the just released Verizon 2015 …
13 million MacKeeper users exposed in data breach
The company pushing MacKeeper, the security and utility software suite for Macs many consider to be scareware, has confirmed that the database containing passwords and …
Retailers are unaware of sensitive data leaks
A significant amount of retailers assign the same login credentials to employees and do not know if employees have leaked sensitive data – in spite of the majority …
Database of 70 million prisoner phone calls breached, leaked
A vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call has …
Comcast resets passwords for 200,000 users after login credentials go on sale
Over the weekend, someone has been peddling a batch of 590,000 email address/password combinations allegedly belonging to Comcast customers. The price set for the lot was 3.23 …
Final TalkTalk breach tally: 4% of customers affected
TalkTalk continues with its practice of updating the public with information regarding the recent data breach on Fridays, and according to the latest update, the total number …