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Dota2 developer forum has suffered a massive security breach in which personal information of nearly 2million registered users has been stolen! The official developer forum of Dota2 (Defense of the Ancients 2), multiplayer online battle arena video game suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 1,923,972 million users was stolen. The data breach took […]
Oracle’s Point-of-service Division MICROS Suffers Massive Data Breach Possibly by Russian Hackers This year seems to be the year of data breaches because the trend of hacking full-fledged databases of even the most secure companies is rising at a steady pace. It is a fact that there is no such industry left that hasn’t been […]
Bitfinex Bitcoin Exchange has suffered a massive data breach where $70 Million worth of Bitcoin have been stolen! Due to a damaging hack of Bitfinex, an online cryptocurrency exchange platform, $70 million worth of Bitcoin has been stolen. A note has been posted on Bitfinex’s website acknowledging the security breach. Although the notice doesn’t name a […]
Iranian Internet Service provider Daba has suffered a data breach in which an Israeli hacker has leaked login credentials of thousands of registered users! An Israeli hacker going by the handle of Zurael_sTz has hacked the official website of Iranian Internet services provider Daba and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered users online earlier today. Zurael_sTz who […]
LastPass password manager had its security compromised by two white hackers in two days — It turned out sometimes it’s good to be hacked by good hackers! Mathias Karlsson, an IT security researcher recently breached the security of popular password managers LastPass and reported the issue to the firm. It all happened when Karlsson noticed LastPass has […]
Another day another hack: Clash of Kings, one of the world’s most famous games on smartphones has its forum hacked, data stolen! An unknown hacker claimed to have hacked into the database of Clash of Kings forum and stole user accounts of 1.6 million users on July 14. The hacker who wants to remain Anonymous shared the […]
A hacker has stolen Amazon Marketplace data from a 3rd-party server — He is now offering the data on an underground forum for BTC 0.02! A hacker going by the online handle of 0xTaylor has claimed to have stolen a database from an unknown third-party server that contains data on several platforms including Amazon Marketplace. […]
Another day another hack — This time, it’s Ubuntu forums facing massive data breach affecting registered users! The official forum website for Ubuntu suffered a security breach on 14th July 2016 in which the unknown attackers used an SQL injection vulnerability to steal login credentials of the forum. In a security notice from Jane Silber […]
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was hacked between 2010 to 2013 and the usual suspect is China! The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has published a report according to which China used a backdoor malware to hack the computer system at Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation between 2010 to 2013. In total 12 computers and […]
Hacker leaked 80,000 Amazon Kindle login credentials because the company wouldn’t respond to his security report! A hacker going by the online handle of 0x2Taylor has claimed to breach the servers of electronic commerce giant Amazon ending up leaking login credentials of 80,000 users. The 597.4 MB leaked data includes usernames and encrypted passwords of Amazon Kindle […]
Poland’s second largest telecom company Netia has suffered a data breach in which personal details of its users and clients have been leaked online! A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor has breached the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA and stole a massive trove of data a couple of days […]
Muslim Match dating website suffers massive data breach — Hackers leak everything along with users’ private messages! A famous dating website “Muslim Match” has been hacked and as a result, personal data of more than 150,000 registered users has been leaked online. That’s not all, the hackers also leaked data including private messages between the users. The […]
Acer has accepted that its servers were breached and someone stole personal and financial credit card data of about 34,000 customers! If you are an Acer customer or ever attended one of their events and used your credit or debit cards for online shopping you have something to worry about as Acer has revealed that […]
ShortRead: Hackers have leaked personal data of US Military officials and according to experts, it’s legit and never been leaked online before! Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) made their entry a few months ago by conducting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Black Lives Matter websites. The group then took part […]
GoToMyPC users are advised to change their account password amid recent security breach! GoToMyPC, just like TeamViewer, is a remote control software service that enables the user to operate their computer from another computer, over the Internet and last week hackers tried to bypass its security and steal login credentials. Good thing is that the […]
Bad news for users in the automotive industry as 45 million accounts from Vertical Scope got stolen! VerticalScope, an Internet media company, known for its automotive and sports vertical market-related content suffered a massive data breach earlier this year in February. However, it seems the company preferred to hide the data breach rather than inform affected users and […]
Brief: Greenwich university has suffered a massive data breach in what looks like a revenge hack — The unknown hacker stole entire database and leaked it on the Dark Web! The Internet has its advantages but it also contains a lot of threats such as access to best hacking tools or other stuff that would have been impossible […]
uTorrent forum suffers massive data breach through vendor controlling the forum! The BitTorrent Client uTorrent, established by Ludvig Strigeus and later acquired by BitTorrent Inc., has issued a warning to its users regarding a security breach of their forum which allowed hackers to steal user information and password hashes of the site. Naturally, uTorrent has urged its […]
A hacker calling himself Tessa88 is Selling 33 million Twitter Logins on Dark Web with clear-text passwords! We recently informed you about the massive data breach at LinkedIn and MySpace in which millions of user accounts, plain text passwords and email addresses were stolen by the hacker. Now, we have learned that around 33 million Twitter […]
Some unknown hackers have breached into the servers of DAC Group and leaked 93,000 customer accounts this week! DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal circumstances it would be just another security breach but what makes […]
Brief: He calls himself “NSA” and he’s selling Driver’s Licence Database of a quarter million+ (290k+) people from the State of Louisiana, United States. You have heard about personal data being leaked on the Internet but it’s not often someone comes along offering to sell a Driver’s Licence Database? Well, it’s happening on the Dark […]