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Russian Version of Facebook Vk.com has its 100 Million Accounts Exposed on the dark web where hacker is asking for 01.0000 BTC / 583.42 US Dollar! Social networking is quite fun and entertaining for sure. However, when massive data breaches like the one we are about to inform you about occur then users have to pay […]
You may have heard of the phrase It’s raining cats and dogs but in the world of cyber security it’s raining data! A group of hackers going by the handle of TeamGhostShell has leaked more than 36 million accounts/records of internal data from several vulnerable networks in order to raise awareness about the poor security infrastructure implemented […]
Anonymous backed World Hacker Team (WHT) breached the servers of National Oil Corporation of Kenya and leaked workers’ data against police brutality! Anonymous doesn’t cease to make headlines this year. Only yesterday we learnt that it has topped the list of most active hacker group in the first half of 2016 and today we are reporting that World […]
Tumblr said 65 million Tumblr accounts were hacked but don’t worry this was in 2013 before Yahoo took over the platform! Tumblr recently revealed that it discovered a breach in their systems which affected users accounts and their passwords. The company said that the hack had happened back in 2013, but they just recently discovered it. […]
Large-scale data breaches continue — MySpace becomes the latest target as hackers put millions of Email IDs and Passwords for Sale! We have now even stopped wondering who would become the next target of malicious threat actors as massive data breaches have become so frequent that not a single company, industry, and the website is […]
Reddit to Reset Passwords of 100,000 Users in Two Week time due to Surprising Upsurge in Hack Attacks Reddit has been on the radar of hackers and malicious actors nowadays as the company has received a flurry of hack attacks resulting in many users accounts being compromised or hijacked. Thus, the company has now announced to […]
In an act of hacktivism, a hacker has leaked everything from the Catalan Police Union website — Reason: Police brutality! A couple of hours ago HackRead reported on a robin hood hacker going with the handles “Phineas Phisher” “Hack Back!” and “@GammaGroupPR” stealing Bitcoins and donating them to Kurdish groups. Yes, the same hacker who previously […]
A teen hacker has taken over PornHub servers and sold the data for $1000 — PornHub claims it’s just a hoax! The famous adult content website PornHub launched its bug bounty program just a few days ago amid increasing malware attacks but before someone can report bugs on their site a hacker already breached and stole their […]
The Rosebutt Board (NSFW forum) has faced a massive data breach — The leaked data also includes .gov emails — If you are at work don’t search for this forum! Last month HackRead reported how a simple SQL vulnerability allowed hackers to steal email addresses, names, IP addresses, physical addresses and plain text passwords of […]
Another day another massive data available for sale online — This time, it’s from Fling Adult dating site. Fling.com (NSFW), an adult social network has apparently been hacked and as a result login credentials of 40,769,652 registered users have been stolen and available for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker calling himself by a vicious hacker known […]
Massive Data Breach Hits Russian Users of Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail — Russian Hacker Steals 250 million Email Addresses and Passwords and Puts them On Sale This time, it is a massive data breach conducted successfully allegedly by Russian hackers. In the hack attack, around 250 million email addresses and passwords belonging to users of […]
Turkish hackers were behind the QNB’s data breach — The QNB has accepted that they were hit with a cyber attack Last week HackRead exclusively reported on Qatar National Bank (QNB) security breach. Now, the QNB has acknowledged a third-party access to their servers but claim the customers’ data is fully secured. That’s not all while […]
Minecraft users have to change their passwords ASAP because Lifeboat company didn’t disclose about the data breach that took place in early 2015. Lifeboat, a platform that provides gamers with an option to run servers for playing customised and multiplayer version of Minecraft has been hacked and login details of seven million users have been […]
The company has confirmed the breach and also revealed that there was an extortion attempt as well. Goldcorp, a renowned gold-mining firm in Canada has been “badly hacked.” The gold-mining firm’s headquarters is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hackers have also leaked a massive amount of the company’s employees’ data online. The hackers provided sample data […]
Anonymous leaked confidential documents from the ministry servers against government corruption. The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted a sophisticated cyber attack on the government of Kenya by breaching its Foreign ministry server, stealing a trove of data and ending up leaking some of it on the Dark Web. The cyber attack was conducted under the banner of […]
Approximately 1.1 Million people suffer data hacks from the dating website BeautifulPeople. The big news was broken on Twitter where Troy Hunt who is the operator of the HaveIBeenPwned.com made a public announcement stating that due to the insecure MangoDB test server left unguardedly open, without an admin password, millions of clients’ data was leaked […]
A group of unknown hackers claims to breach the security of Qatar National Bank and leak banking details of Qatari Royal Family, Al Jazeera Journalists and MI6 agents. A group of unknown hackers has claimed to have hacked into the servers of Qatar National Bank (QNB) and leaked 1.4GB of data from the database containing […]
Congressman’s iPhone hacked easily on 60 Minutes show — The demo reveals hackers can spy and monitor everything on your mobile whatever security measures you take After all the fuss about how the FBI was able to get a pass into an iPhone recently, 60 Minutes decided to do their own research. Unfortunately according to […]
An online wallet service for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies CoinWallet was forced to shut down their operations by May 1, 2016, after an ugly data breach incident that transpired on April 6, 2016. This is the Fourth Bitcoin platform in the past month to get knocked out by a cyber-attack in a row, and the […]
Sources Confirm Second Breach of Trump Hotels – Trump’s Rep Claims Investigations Underway Trump Hotels are in for another shocker as banking industry sources have revealed that the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s luxury hotel chain (which comprise of more than a dozen properties globally) have been the target of another data breach. This time, […]
San Francisco’s Verizon Enterprise solution’s computer security wing suffered an abrupt massive hack of 1.5 million customers’ records. Brian Krebs who is an ace computer security writer stated that the whole database was on sale for $100,000 at a discreet underground cybercrime forum. The offer also holds increments of 100,000 records for $10,000 per piece. […]