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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 …
Another teenager arrested in connection to TalkTalk hack
A 16-year-old boy from Norwich has become the fourth person arrested in connection with the investigation into the TalkTalk data breach.Detectives from the Metropolitan Police …
TalkTalk breach: Third arrest, data already for sale, criminals targeting pensioners
News about the TalkTalk breach and the investigation of it are coming fast and thick. After the arrests of two teens (one in Northern Ireland, the other from Feltham) believed …
Hackers put up for sale 13 million plaintext passwords stolen from 000webhost
000webhost, a popular free web hosting service, has suffered a data breach that resulted in the compromise of the name, email address and plaintext password of some 13 million …
TalkTalk breach: Attackers demand £80,000 for stolen data
UK Telecom TalkTalk revealed on Friday that its website has suffered an attack, that it has been taken down as a precaution, and that names, addresses, dates of birth, email …
WikiLeaks publishes documents stolen from CIA director’s email account
CIA Director John Brennan’s private AOL email account has been hacked, apparently by teenage hackers with good social engineering skills.While it seems that the account …
Wealth of personal data found on used electronics purchased online
Varying amounts and types of residual data have been found on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and …
T-Mobile customer data stolen from Experian already for sale
The personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in the recently revealed Experian breach is possibly being already sold on the Dark Web.Irish fraud prevention …
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