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Dailymotion, a world renowned video sharing website has suffered a massive data breach in which a hacker whose identity is unknown successfully stole 87 million accounts and shared with LeakedSource, a data breach notification website. The data breach which took place on 20th October 2016 allowed the hacker to steal usernames, emails and hashed passwords of Dailymotion’s […]
Danish Payment Processing Firm Nets Suspects Losing 100,000 credit cards to Hackers. Nets, a well-known Danish payment processing company claims to have lost 100,000 credit cards to hackers. The company has even informed local banks to block up the 100,000 credit cards, which are suspected to be compromised by hackers. MUST READ: CRIMINALS STEAL 1.44 BILLION […]
Some 3.2 million debit cards issued by India’s biggest banks may be exposed to a malware-induced security breakdown, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Oct. 20. Most of these cards belong to State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Yes Bank and ICICI Bank. Recently various State Bank of India’s debit card holders got surprised […]
The alleged LinkedIn hacker was arrested in a restaurant while ordering food — The video of his arrest has been linked in this article. The local law enforcement authorities in Prague along with the help of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have arrested an alleged Russian hacker responsible for the massive LinkedIn data breach in 2012 in […]
Vera Bradley Inc.’s Payment Processing System Hacked Delaying its Website Upgrade until 2017. Vera Bradley Inc, a famous handbag manufacturer has suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to the customer data from the company’s payment processing systems. The incident has forced the company to delay its website upgrading until 2017. The data accessed […]
Amazon password reset email states that a list of login credentials was found posted online — Although, it is unclear how many accounts were found but if you are an Amazon customer simply change your password now. Amazon, the electronic commerce giant is sending emails to its registered customers urging them to change their passwords […]
Yahoo hacked! Yes, yahoo just announced that 500 million user accounts were stolen in a breach that took place in 2014 – this may be the largest data breach ever. The Internet giant Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that a “state-sponsored actors” have stolen 500 million user accounts from their servers in a breach that took […]
Hacked was hacked in 2012 – You may already know that Yahoo was hacked but Yahoo itself never acknowledged or addressed the issue – However now, Yahoo is preparing itself to officially acknowledge that 200 million of its users had their accounts compromised. On 2nd August 2016, HackRead reported that 200 Million Yahoo users suffered a […]
Anonymous defaced four Italian healthcare websites and also dumped data on the Internet — Anonymous is not happy with the government’s stand on the way ADHD patients are being treated. The Italian breach of online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on four Italian healthcare websites and defaced them with a message of their own. The […]
Payment Gateway Data Breach Exposes Financial Details of 324,000 users— Data Dump Also Includes CVV Numbers. Attacking high profile websites and companies, stealing huge databases and dumping the data online seem to be the latest trend in the hacking community. In the latest breach, nearly 324,000 users have been affected as a payment gateway BlueSnap or […]
Fancy Bear Hackers have leaked yet another set of documents stolen from WADA server — This time, the group has targeted athletes from other countries as well and not just the United States. It looks like the Fancy Bear hackers are not done yet. After hacking the official website of World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of […]
Hackers Expose Passwords of 6.6million Pay-to-click ad service site ClixSense Users — Worse for users the passwords were stored in plain text. ClixSense is one company that offers high rate for viewing ads or completing online surveys, making searches on Google and categorizing videos or pictures online. The company also runs an affiliate network under […]
A group of hackers going by the online handle of “Expl.oit” or “Exploit” hacked the official website of Exile Mod gaming forum on Sunday the 28th of August 2016 and leaked personal details of 11,902 registered users. The two hackers from the group @Allergically and @pr0jekkt contacted HackRead with in-depth details about their latest hack but the reason […]
Last.fm suffered a data breach in 2012 but someone just dumped the data after 4 years. Just like Internet movie database (IMDb), there is an online database for music fans and it’s called Last.fm. But the reason we are discussing Last.Fm it is that it suffered a security breach in June 2012 and now after 4 […]
BTC-E Bitcoin Exchange and the popular forum BitcoinTalk has become victims of security breaches. The news was made public by the famous data breach notification site LeakedSource in which it was also revealed that the breaches occurred in 2014 and 2015. The news bit has come as a shock to many because it is a general […]
Someone hacked the Infowars website and stole thousands of accounts belonging to its registered users — The accounts were found on an underground hacking forum. Alex Jones, a hardcore Donald Trump supporter, radio show host, documentary filmmaker and conspiracy theorist had his site hacked by unknown attackers who stole login account credentials of tens of […]
Opera’s Syncing Web Browser Service has suffered a data breach and possibility is that 1.7 million Passwords have been Stolen. Opera software is urging its Sync feature users to change their passwords following a data breach that took place last week. Currently, details are limited but the software giant revealed that unknown attackers breached its servers […]
Another day another gaming forum has been hacked — This time, a GTA fan forum has suffered a security breach; thanks to the outdated vBulletin forum software. It looks like hackers have waged a war against gaming forums. In the last couple of weeks, several gaming giants have suffered some massive data breaches and in the latest, […]
Epic Games’ forums have suffered a data breach — It’s just another day and just another breach. Gaming giant Epic Games, Inc has suffered a massive data breach in which login credentials of 800,000 plus registered users (gamers) from Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum have been stolen. The security breach took place on 11th August […]
New Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign hits Twenty US Hotels Making Customers’ Financial Data Vulnerable Believe it or not, if you have stayed at any of the below listed 20 hotels in the United States, your financial data might be at severe risk of hacking. That’s because the 20 US-based hotels that are being operated by HEI […]
WADA’s hack has opened doors to more hacks — Now, the Russian Olympics whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova living in a secret location had her account accessed by a third party. On 12th August a Twitter handle claiming affiliation with Anonymous Poland branch of the hacktivist group hacked the official website of WADA-CAS (World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of Arbitration […]