All posts tagged "breach"
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3.0KSurveillanceFacebook app caught using iPhone’s camera due to a ‘bug’
Article updated with a statement from Facebook. We frequently come across apps unauthorizedly accessing certain features or data of smartphones but mostly...
- 2.2KData Security
Someone leaked location data of users from a neo-nazi website
Over the past few months, we’ve come across data breaches that are bad for anyone but the bad guys themselves. But just...
- 1.6KData Security
Social media giant Facebook suffers data breach AGAIN
Roughly 100 App Developers Retained Unauthorized Access to Group Members’ Data. Another day, another data breach at Facebook – If you are...
- 283Data Security
Popular Camgirl sites exposed sex workers & users’ data
An organized network of Camgirl sites has reportedly exposed personal data of millions of sex workers and users who participated in sessions...
- 35News
After Avast, NordVPN server gets hacked
Users today realize that they may get hacked, logically because they’re no experts at cyber-security and attackers smarter than they are out...
- 86Cyber Events
The Forgotten Victims of Data Breach
“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story is a confession, then so is...
- 25Data Security
Can ordinary companies keep up with data compliance regulations?
For many companies, data compliance regulations are a huge burden, and one that’s only getting heavier. The GDPR regulations introduced in the...
- 17Data Security
Most SMB cybersecurity defence fail short to thwart malware & file-based attacks
29 percent of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) spend less than $1,000 for their IT security each year. This comes as a...
- 52News
Gaming giant Zynga data breach: 218 million records stolen
In the still earlier years of Facebook, around 2009, Farmville was the go-to game for me and thousands of users on Facebook....
- 55Surveillance
Poor security: 15,000 private webcams exposed to creeps
Your exposed webcams are backdoor for creeps. Every cybersecurity article you’ll find will include some sort of reminder emphasizing the use of...
- 52Data Security
Every Ecuadorian has been compromised in massive data breach
Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since...
- 47News
Hackers steal 560,000 user accounts in XKCD forum breach
If you have an account on XKCD forum change its password right now. The popular webcomic XKCD has been hacked. Apparently, unknown...
- 35Data Security
Dodging bad passwords with Google’s new tool
Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach. In...
- 39Data Security
Epic Games slapped with lawsuit over hacked Fortnite accounts
Epic Games who developed Fortnite has been sued for not protecting Fortnite accounts from hackers. There are currently more than 250 million...
- 53Cyber Crime
Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested
The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based...
- 11Data Security
Hackers steal 7.5TB of data from Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor
The hackers stole the data and shared it with another hacking group who was involved in the hacking of another FSB contractor....
- 24Data Security
Slack data breach: Company resets thousands of passwords
Slack data breach took place in 2015 but the company became aware of the incident recently through its bug bounty program. Slack...
- 20Data Security
Hackers used Samsung website to access Sprint’s customer data
Sprint Corporation, an American telecommunications company has announced that it has suffered a data breach after unknown hackers accessed customer accounts credentials...
- 17News
Border Patrol data breach: Footages of tourists entering/exiting the US compromised
The data breach took place after a database used by Border Patrol was hit by a “malicious cyber-attack.” The officials from US...
- 6Cyber Events
Quest Diagnostics data breach affects 12 million customers
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after its web payment page...
- 18Cyber Events
News aggregator app Flipboard hacked; user data stolen
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just yesterday, it was reported...
