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We always come across reports of serious security breaches in the health service, and the number has steadily increased. More than a hundred thousand health records were exposed or stolen during this period, affecting the life of the people. This isn’t typical, either. Of all large data breaches across all sectors, hospitals accounted for around […]
The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang (王 福 杰) and another hacker named John Doe with three different aliases—Deniel Jack, Kim […]
Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, confirmed today that the company lost nearly $41 million in Bitcoin in what appears to be its largest hack to date. In a statement, Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao said the company discovered a “large scale security breach” earlier on May 7, as a result of […]
Wyzant—an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects—has suffered a data breach exposing “certain personal identification information” for its customers. The Hacker News received a copy of an email notification Wyzant recently sent to its affected customers, which reveals […]
In recent times we have seen a numerous number of cyber attacks targeting the healthcare firm. For example the case of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (healthcare provider) had almost 279,865 individuals affected by the data breach, similarly, there were 17 other healthcare organizations that become victim to cyber attacks in 2018. In […]
Citrix finally confirms that the cybercriminals successfully compromised their internal network and accessed the most sensitive files also they removed from their network during the security breach that reported in March. Citrix Systems, Inc.a well-known software company that provides server, application, and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service, and cloud computing technologies for NASA, […]
An unknown mystery database exposed nearly 80 million U.S households data that impacting up to 65% of US households. Security Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar uncovered the 24 GB database which is hosted by a Microsoft cloud server. The database contains highly sensitive data that belongs to U.S peoples who are living in each […]
Docker Hub Hacked, sensitive data more than 190,000 accounts may have exposed. Docker Hub discovered the unauthorized access to a single Hub database On Thursday, April 25th, 2019. Docker hub is the cloud repository which allows users to create a test, store and distribute container images. It also allows you to download the docker images […]
Docker Hub, one of the largest cloud-based library of Docker container images, has suffered a data breach after an unknown attacker gained access to the company’s single Hub database. Docker Hub is an online repository service where users and partners can create, test, store and distribute Docker container images, both publicly and privately. The breach […]
Facebook has a lot of problems, then there are a lot of problems for Facebook—and both are not going to end anytime sooner. Though Facebook has already set aside $5 billion from its revenue to cover a possible fine the company is expecting as a result of an FTC investigation over privacy violations, it seems […]
Bodybuilding.com, the internet’s biggest online store and an online forum for fitness and bodybuilding enthusiasts, recently became aware of the Data Security Incident that impacted its IT systems and announced that some of their customer related information may have been accessed cause of this. It is one of the internet’s most visited sites, which has […]
An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India’s largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its fancy “88888 88888” customer care number, The Hacker News has learned and independently verified. Founded over two decades […]
Microsoft has started notifying some Outlook.com users that a hacker was able to access accounts for months earlier this year. The software giant discovered that a support agent’s credentials were compromised for its web mail service, allowing unauthorized access to some accounts between January 1st and March 28th, 2019. Microsoft says the hackers could have […]
Microsoft announced a data breach by unknown hackers who have compromised the Microsoft technical support agent’s credentials and gain access to some of the Microsoft customer’s Email. Cybercriminals breached the Microsoft network between January 1 and March 28 and compromise the Microsoft support agent’s credentials. Microsoft notified to the customer via Email on Friday said, […]
If you have an account with Microsoft Outlook email service, there is a possibility that your account information has been compromised by an unknown hacker or group of hackers, Microsoft confirmed The Hacker News. Earlier this year, hackers managed to breach Microsoft’s customer support portal and access information related to some email accounts registered with […]
Over 540 million Facebook users personal records that include comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs exposed to the public Internet. All the data are collected and stored by Third-Party developers. Researchers from UpGuard found third-party Facebook app datasets, one from Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva and another one belongs to Facebook-integrated app “At the […]
Georgia Tech (The Georgia Institute of Technology) has announced detection of a data breach that impacted 1.3 million people. A Georgia Tech notification, dated April 2, 2019, says, “Georgia Tech discovered that unauthorized access to a web application has exposed personal information for up to 1.3 million individuals, including current and former faculty, students, staff, […]
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users have been found […]
The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside entity gained “unauthorized access” to its web application and accessed […]
Toyota hacked, yes, Toyota major subsidiaries network compromised by unknown hackers and they gained unauthorized access to the network where Toyota stored nearly 3.1 million customers sensitive information. Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japan-based, world’s second-largest automotive manufacturer who produces more than 10 million vehicles per year. This security incident affected Japan-based Toyota subsidiaries networks […]
What is Article 13? The European Union has passed a wide-reaching update to copyright laws, the first since 2001. Most of the changes in the EU Copyright Directive are uncontroversial, setting out how copyright contracts are managed and licensed, but Article 13 could have a huge impact on how material is shared online. Put simply, […]