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Private messages of Bloomberg clients end up online
Mere days after Bloomberg News admitted that its journalists could access some client information via the company’s financial terminals, it has been revealed that the …
Hacker leaks part of Candace Bushnell’s unpublished book
A hacker that goes by the name of “Guccifer” – the same one who has allegedly compromised email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close …
How secure is your confidential data?
It seems ages ago that companies were first warned about the danger of confidential information being found in trash bags in front of the office, yet despite the use of …
108,000+ account details of Sims players leaked
NewSeaSims, a website where Sims players can download custom content for their characters, has suffered a breach which resulted in the compromise of registered users’ …
DLP suite for companies with limited IT support resources
Safetica Technologies has launched Safetica 5, the newest version of its Data Leak Protection/monitoring suite, which prevents “human factor” issues that can lead …
Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking Swedish bank, agencies
Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, has been charged along with three other men with hacking into several Swedish agencies and firms and stealing (or …
Linode hackers say they will release stolen customer data
Linode, the web hosting provider that (among others) provides a home for Internet security resource sites Insecure.Org, Nmap.Org, SecLists.Org, and SecTools.Org, has announced …
Hacktivists leak info on undercover Montreal police officers
The names, phone numbers and job titles of thousands of police officers and other employees of the Montreal police department (Service de police de la Ville de Montreal, or …
Published celeb credit reports came from government-mandated website
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and socialite Kris Jenner are four additional victims of …
Zoosk asks users to reset passwords following mass leak
Online dating service Zoosk is urging some of its users to change their passwords following the leaking of a list of some 29 million passwords that seemingly contains theirs. …
Hackers steal, leak financial info of U.S. celebrities and politicians
Detailed personal and financial information of a number of U.S. celebrities, politicians and a chief of police has been made public by hackers, TMZ reports. The victims of the …
Evernote breached, forces service-wide password reset
The popular notetaking and archiving service Evernote has notified its 50+ million users that the service’s internal network has been breached by attackers and that they …
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