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The IRS announced in an official statement today that it has closed down an online service to obtain tax records after sensing an “unusual activity” and it was detected that an illegal third party had accessed some accounts on the transcript application. Initially, it was discovered that the access was gained to more than 100,000 […]
Massive Healthcare Company is another victim of malicious Hacking — Currently the third Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurer targeted. Hackers have targeted yet another healthcare company, CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a healthcare insurer that provides healthcare facility for residents in Maryland, Washington and parts of Virginia, said on Wednesday that it’s been struck […]
mSpy, the notorious software-as-a-device product which so far enabled two million plus people spy on their spouses and kids, is believed to be a victim of serious hacking. Last week it was discovered that massive data has been stolen from the company’s servers and posted on the Dark Web, revealing numerous emails, text messages, payment […]
Summary: Earlier this week Bob Sullivan reported that hackers can easily access Starbucks customer accounts by stealing their username and passwords and naturally Starbucks app users panicked — Starbucks in its official statement denied the allegations of any sort of security breach. An independent tech reporter Bob Sullivan shocked the users of Starbucks app by reporting that […]
Keeping Anonymous hackers out from news is simply impossible, the hacktivist movement is active 24 x 7 and you can always expect them to drop their cyber bomb on anyone at anytime — Just like today when WTO is under attack by Anonymous. One of the hacktivist leading Anonymous movement on Twitter just breached the World Trade organization’s […]
Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and posted in three different parts on Pastie sites for OpIsrael. After analyzing the data, we found out that data […]
On Friday, Microsoft revised its approach to “Do Not Track” for all upcoming and future versions of its browsers. The company confirmed that it will “no longer enable Do Not Track feature in its web browser by default.” The DNT used to be a default option in Microsoft Internet Explorer since 2012 – meaning that it […]
Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) has reported that two of its backup hard drives containing information of about 40000 people involving their health and insurance details have been stolen during the transportation of the hard drives to offsite stores. The incident took place on 13th of February 2015. ISMA is unaware of how this is […]
The security researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel have identified the method of obtaining air-gapped system data through heat emissions and the built-in thermal sensors of a computer. The method has been named BitWhisper. Air-gapped systems that generally are not linked with other systems and are also isolated from the Internet can be utilized in circumstances […]
Medical and financial data of around 11 million Premera Blue Cross customers has potentially been exposed due to a breach that apparently occurred on the same date as of the Anthem breach. The firm announced about the breach on Tuesday and revealed that it identified the violation on January 29, 2015, and collaborated with the […]
Uber, a private international transport company headquartered at San Francisco, announced on Friday that the company had suffered a massive data breach in 2014. In a statement released on Friday, the company admitted that their website was accessed by an unauthorized third party and sensitive data of about 50,000 drivers were stolen. The one-time breach […]
Hackers have breached the billing and payment pages of BigFish Games and stolen sensitive information, according to the company’s notification letter published on 11 February 2015. BigFish Games, founded in 2002, is ranked 1,589 in the United States and 2,817 globally, according to Alexa. The hackers intercepted the customer payment information and might have stolen […]
HealthCare.gov’s camaraderie with Marketers Revealed – Apparently the US federal Website has been sharing Patient Data with Marketers. The United States’ federal website HealthCare.gov reportedly has been leaking the personal data of its consumers to advertising and marketing purveyors. This website is responsible for making registrations and selecting consumers for health insurance under the Affordable Care […]
A couple of weeks ago, the social media giant Facebook announced that in order to serve us with targeted ads – it will starting using our data that it collects from apps. It actually means that Facebook will now use your browsing history to earn money and benefit its advertisers. Today, we are going to help you with how […]
A new feature introduced by Facebook to allow meeting the Facebook friends in real time when they are actually close by has had mixed reactions from its users. Nearby Friends, an optional mobile application, taps steady stream of location information and makes it possible for friends to track each other in real time and meet […]
Ex-NSA tech Snowden leaked documents had yet another element of surprise; it has a set of slides depicting mysterious spacecrafts referring to Flying Saucers or UFO. A document among the trove leaked by Edward Snowden contains slides showing images of flying saucer The slides, part of the powerpoint presentation created by the British spying agency, Government […]
More than 300,000 records of faculty, staff, students, and affiliates of the Maryland University were breached, according to the University’s president. In a written note to the students and faculty, Wallace D. Loh, the president, confirmed that no financial records, academic, health or contact information were compromised and the hack was confined to personal information […]
An InfoSec company TrustWave has reported that unknown hackers have stolen usernames and passwords of two million accounts at Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and others high profile companies. The company revealed that hack was a result of a keylogging software installed maliciously on unknown but thousands of personal computers around the globe. The installed malware took screenshots […]
Famous Turkish hacker going with the handle of @AgentCorporatio from Turkish Agent Hacker Group has hacked and defaced the official website of telecom giant Vodafone Iceland. As a result of hack, the hacker has leaked around 77k user accounts with customers SMS logs. The hacker who contacted me on Twitter explained that reason for targeting Vodafone was to […]
Glenn Greenwald, who is the person at the forefront of the reports that have been published on the spying program of National Security Agency (NSA) had a conversation with German Aranda who is El Mundo journalist, and has stressed that the spying activities of US have spanned far more than just Europe. Greenwald said that: […]
An Iranian hacker going with the handle of Dr.3v1l from Black_Devils B0ys hacking group has breached to an Israeli based job search portal, as a result login account information of over 3349 Israeli citizens have been leaked and dumped online. Dr.3v1l contacted me on Twitter regarding his latest hack with a Pastebin link that shows login accounts of […]