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If you have an account on XKCD forum change its password right now. The popular webcomic XKCD has been hacked. Apparently, unknown hackers were able to breach the XKCD forum and manage to steal personal data of over 562,000 users. The breach took place last month while the stolen data was identified by Adam Davies, […]
Another day, another data breach – This time, the IT security researcher at HackenProof have discovered a massive trove of personal data of over 66 million users exposed online due to an unprotected MongoDB database. In October and November 2018, HackenProof’s security researcher Bob Diachenko identified several unprotected MongoDB instances believed to be hosted by a […]
The latest report from breach monitoring website HaveIBeenPwned reveals that in August, popular adult video game website High Tail Hall (HTH) was hacked and private data of about half a million subscribers was stolen. The leaked data includes names, email IDs, and order histories among other details. After a few months, the stolen data was […]
In my opinion, haveibeenpwned is the best website to find out about the security of your password. It has gone through a few versions over the years, each version bringing an overall increase in the database of hacked passwords. August 2017 version 1 had a whooping 320 million unsafe passwords. By February this year, the […]
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 […]