All posts tagged "breach"
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4.9KSurveillanceStudy shows prominent apps are selling your data to 3rd parties
These apps are more like a glorified data farm. Among the various categories of apps that exist out there, some by their...
- 1.7KData Security
250 million Microsoft customer support records leaked in plain text
Another day, another data breach but this time it involves the technology giant Microsoft. Apparently, the company exposed sensitive Customer Service and...
- 4.9KSurveillance
Clearview app lets police find your information with just a photo
Clearview app is not for personal use but only for law enforcement authorities, the company emphasizes. China has been for a long...
- 844News
Personal data of millions of Americans exposed from PC in China
Security lapse or security blunder?– Private data of 56M Americans exposed from China is apparently taken from CheckPeople.com. Security lapses are quite...
- 2.9KNews
Hackers steal sensitive data from Japanese search engine for sex hotels
A Japanese search engine designed primarily for the purpose of helping people find Love Hotels and book rooms suffered a data breach...
- 2.8KSurveillance
Cambridge Analytica scandal: Facebook hit with $1.6 million fine
Brazilian Government is not happy with Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica breach. The Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to haunt Facebook. The company...
- 2.3KData Security
Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed
The data is now available on a hacker forum to download. Another day, another data breach putting the privacy of hundreds of...
- 4.5KNews
Massive leak exposes browsing history of millions of users
Recently, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, analysts at vpnMentor have discovered a data breach that exposed the user data of Conor Solutions,...
- 5.0KGeek
Stolen: Unencrypted hard drives with data of 29,000 Facebook employees
For the first time, victims of Facebook’s data breach are not its users. Facebook has become a victim of yet another data...
- 4.0KData Security
How safe is business data stored in third-party supplier websites?
For any modern business, the data that they hold is among their most valuable assets. Whether it is data about customers or...
- 2.0KGeek
70% of the entire US population is now on Facebook
In 2016, shocking research about Facebook revealed that by 2098, the social media giant will be the biggest virtual graveyard. Yet, for now,...
- 4.6KData Security
2.7 billion email addresses & plain-text passwords exposed online
Comparitech along with IT security researcher Bob Diachenko, have discovered a massive trove of login credentials that were exposed to public access...
- 2.4KSurveillance
This Smartwatch is exposing real-time location data of thousands of kids
Recently, it has been discovered that SMA-WATCH-M2, a smartwatch featuring a GPS tracker manufactured by a Chinese firm named Shenzhen Smart Care...
- 364News
Private details of Palo Alto Networks employees leaked online
Palo Alto Networks, the renowned cyber security firm, has suffered an unusual data breach in which personal details of not just present...
- 448Cyber Events
UPbit cryptocurrency exchange hacked; Ether worth $50 million stolen
The popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UPbit has suffered a massive hack attack in which hackers have stolen 342,000 Ethereum (ETH) which...
- 4.7KCyber Events
Small businesses also need protection from cyber attacks
If you run a small business, it’s a matter of when, not if, your computer system or cyberinfrastructure falls prey to cybercriminals....
- 4.8KData Security
Facebook & Twitter suffer data breach via third-party developers
Another day, another breach involving Facebook, Twitter, and third-party developers. On Monday, both Facebook and Twitter announced that the data of hundreds...
- 4.0KNews
Database with 1.2 billion people’s data leaked online without password
The database was available for anyone to access without a password. Recently on October 16, 2019, a team of two dark web...
- 4.0KData Security
Hackers now use web skimmers to steal credit card data
People often make a great effort to protect their credit/debit card details against fraudulent transactions. This has been further helped by banks...
- 1.6KData Security
Hackers access customer data in latest T-Mobile data breach
This will be the second time when hackers have targeted T-Mobile in two years. The telecom giant T-Mobile announced on Thursday that...
- 262Surveillance
Police confiscate surveillance van loaded with hacking tools
Earlier this year, the Israeli owner of the van demonstrated how hacking tools in his surveillance van were capable of hacking any...
