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If you are an entrepreneur who runs an online business, your digital properties including your website, social media accounts and emails are the backbones of your business operations. You need to make sure that your data is protected from hackers and your digital properties are running smoothly without any external threats or disturbances. Over the […]
Facebook has been at the receiving end of backlash and criticism from security fraternity for being embroiled into one data exposure scandal after another lately. The Cambridge Analytica data scandal is still fresh in our minds, where private data of nearly 87 million Facebook users got compromised. It seems like data breaches season is far […]
Orbitz.com, a Chicago, Illinois based popular travel website owned by Expedia Inc. has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial details of over 800,000 registered customers may have been stolen by unknown hackers. In a statement to media, the company said that the breach was identified on March 1st, 2018 after an in-depth investigation […]
It looks like the nightmare for Equifax users is far from over as today the consumer credit reporting giant has announced that according to its ongoing investigation, there are 2.4 million additional Equifax customers impacted by the massive 2017 data breach. Initially, Equifax claimed that 143 million Americans, which is over 40% of the entire population of the United States, […]
1Password’s “pwned password” will check your password on the list of leaked passwords in previous or unannounced data breaches. You must have heard about the various mega breaches like the ones experienced by MySpace, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Yahoo, Instagram or the one we reported yesterday in which 3,000 databases with 2 million accounts have been found on Dark […]
OnePlus, a Shenzhen based Chinese smartphone manufacturer has denied that its checkout page was compromised due to a Magento bug. The statement from OnePlus came in response to a number of customers who reported credit card fraud and purchases after buying OnePlus smartphones from its official website (OnePlus.net) between October and December 2017. Background According to a post by “superdutynick,” […]
A data breach targeted towards the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information of over 240,000 DHS employees (247,167 to be precise) including both current and former personnel. Reportedly, the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Case Management System was accessed and data belonging to individuals linked […]
2017 is over, but memories of some of the biggest hacking and data breach related incidents will haunt victims for a long time. Today, we will be highlighting biggest hacking incidents of 2017 including malware attacks leading to ransomware infection or a simple email that turned out to be a phishing email and stole millions […]
Another day another data breach, this time it is Ancestry.com, the United States-based genealogy company operating a large network of genetic, historical and genealogical websites with over 2 million paying subscribers. Ancestry and RootsWeb One of Ancestry’s service is RootsWeb that is an online community consisting of forums and mailing lists etc to assist people in exploring the history of their family […]
In a Dark Web marketplace, one can buy anything from illegal drugs to weapons, fake documents to malicious software and even stolen databases, etc. Although after the shut down of Hansa and AlphaBay marketplace, buying and selling have slowed down. It does not, however, mean it has been fully curbed. Recently, a dark web monitoring firm 4iQ discovered a […]
The researchers demanded data left visible entered names, phone numbers, locations and Google queries. The chief of the Israeli company back the app confirmed the breach but said most of the data was not sensitive. Bob Diachenko, from the Kromtech Security Centre, part of contract company Mackeeper, said the number of data required by the […]
In July this year, the online payment giant PayPal announced buying Canadian bill payment management company TIO Networks for $233 million (€196m) in cash. But now the company has revealed that TIO Networks have suffered a massive data breach in which personal information of 1.6 million customers has been stolen. In an official statement, PayPal said that a […]
Bitcoin price is surging, and same goes for cyberattacks against it. The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) team have announced that a hacker breached into their Github repository and changed the two existing Windows files with malicious ones. The reason for it was to trick users and steal their funds. Currently, one Bitcoin (BTC) is almost $10,000 that makes […]
It’s just another day with just another data breach – This time it is Image-sharing website Imgur. The online image sharing and hosting platform Imgur has announced that it suffered a data breach back in 2014 but only got to know about it on November 23rd, 2017. In total, hackers stole 1.7 million user accounts […]
Another day, another cryptocurrency wallet hacked – This time; it is Blockchain Wallet CoinPouch. CoinPunch, a Plano, Texas-based company providing multi-currency crypto wallets announced on Twitter that it suffered a breach in which one of its nodes that stored Verge currency got affected and resulted in the loss of user’s funds. We discovered a hack of a @vergecurrency […]
Mozilla is joining hands with popular data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP) to send an in-browser alert to Firefox browser users if they are visiting a site that was previously hacked and whether their login credentials have been involved in a data breach. “This is an addon that I’m going to be using for prototyping an upcoming […]
It’s surprising to some and shocking to many. Despite a rough phase that the US-based ride-hailing service has been passing through amidst allegations of sexual harassment, federal criminal probes, and trade secrets theft lawsuit, we did believe in the legitimacy of Uber as a service provider. However, Bloomberg has burst the bubble for Uber users. […]
The Google Play store has made headlines recently when cyber criminals were able to hack in and post a fake WhatsApp messenger update for download. More than a million Android phone users were tricked into downloading the app but the overall breach was relatively minor. Hackers were able to breach the store by adding a […]
In June 2016 we reported that the well-known Toronto, Canada-based Internet Media firm VerticalScope became a victim of a huge data breach, but the firm chose to keep this information secret from users instead of asking them to change their passwords. The breach was identified by now closed Leaked Source platform, and that’s how the […]
In 2013, Hackers apparently gained access to the Trump Organization’s domain booking account and created at least 250 website subdomains that cybersecurity specialists refer to as “shadow” subdomains. Each one of these shadow Trump subdomains guided to a Russian IP address, implying that they were hosted at these Russian addresses. Every website domain is connected […]
“I don’t remember if my data has been sold to the dark web or where this goes,” she said. “I keep getting letters from Kohl’s, from Macy’s, from Old Navy saying, ‘Thank you for your request.’” But she says she’s nevermore applied for credit from any of those areas. Instead, Van Fleet and her attorney […]