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DailyMotion Hacked — 85 Million User Accounts Stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2016/12/dailymotion-video-hacked.html | Another day, another data breach.
This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen.
Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained 85.2 Million records from Dailymotion.
... | Data_Breaches |
Over 300 Million AdultFriendFinder Accounts Exposed in Massive Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2016/11/adult-friend-finder-hack.html | Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot now," has suffered another massive data breach, but this time it is much worse than the last year.
Over 300 Million AdultFriendFinder accounts have reportedly been exposed in a massive data breach that hit adult dating ... | Data_Breaches |
Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/linkedin-russian-hacker.html | The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police, was believed to be the one responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, according to a statement released by LinkedIn.
Now, United States authorities have officially indicted Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 29-yea... | Data_Breaches |
Over 43 Million Weebly Accounts Hacked; Foursquare Also Hit By Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/weebly-foursquare-data-breach.html | 2016 is the year of data breaches that has made almost every major companies victims to the cyber attacks, resulting in compromise of over billion of online users accounts.
Weebly and Foursquare are the latest victims of the massive data breach, joining the list of "Mega-Breaches" revealed in recent months, including ... | Data_Breaches |
Massive ATM Hack Hits 3.2 Million Indian Debit Cards — Change Your PIN Now! | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/india-debit-card-hack.html | India is undergoing the biggest data breaches to date with as many as 3.2 Million debit card details reportedly stolen from multiple banks and financial platforms.
The massive financial breach has hit India's biggest banks including State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis, and customers are... | Data_Breaches |
Breaking — Russian Hacker Responsible for LinkedIn Data Breach Arrested by FBI | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/linkedin-russian-hacker-arrested.html | The alleged Russian hacker arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police is none other than the hacker who was allegedly responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, which affected nearly 117 Million user accounts.
Yevgeniy N, 29-year-old Russian hacker was arrested in Prague on October 5 suspect... | Data_Breaches |
Yahoo Disables Email Auto-Forwarding; Making It Harder for Users to Move On | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/yahoo-email-auto-forwarding.html | Yahoo! has disabled automatic email forwarding -- a feature that lets its users forward a copy of incoming emails from one account to another.
The company has faced lots of bad news regarding its email service in past few weeks. Last month, the company admitted a massive 2014 data breach that exposed account details o... | Data_Breaches |
Verizon wants $1 Billion Discount on Yahoo Acquisition Deal after Recent Scandals | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/verizon-yahoo-acquisition-deal.html | It seems like it is not all over for Yahoo yet. Another day, another bad news for Yahoo!
Verizon, which has agreed to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 Billion, is now asking for a $1 Billion discount, according to recent reports.
The request comes after Verizon Communications learned about the recent disclosures about hacking... | Data_Breaches |
TalkTalk Telecom Ordered to Pay Record £400,000 Fine Over 2015 Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/talktalk-data-breach.html | TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based Telecoms company with 4 million customers, has been issued with a record £400,000 ($510,000) fine for failings to implement the most basic security measures to prevent the hack that made global headlines last year.
The penalty has been imposed by the Information Commissioner's Off... | Data_Breaches |
Uh oh, Yahoo! Data Breach May Have Hit Over 1 Billion Users | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/yahoo-data-breach-billion.html | The massive data breach that Yahoo! confirmed to the world last week is claimed by the company to have been carried out by a "state-sponsored actor" in 2014, which exposed the accounts of at least 500 Million Yahoo users.
But, now it seems that Yahoo has downplayed a mega data breach and trying to hide it's own securi... | Data_Breaches |
Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Were 'Mistakenly' Left By An Agent On A Remote Server | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/nsa-hacking-tool-exploits.html | If you are a hacker, you might have enjoyed the NSA's private zero-day exploits, malware and hacking tools that were leaked last month.
But the question is: How these hacking tools ended up into the hands of hackers?
It has been found that the NSA itself was not directly hacked, but a former NSA employee carelessly l... | Data_Breaches |
Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by 'State Sponsored' Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/yahoo-data-breach.html | 500 million accounts — that's half a Billion users!
That's how many Yahoo accounts were compromised in a massive data breach dating back to 2014 by what was believed to be a "state sponsored" hacking group.
Over a month ago, a hacker was found to be selling login information related to 200 million Yahoo accounts on t... | Data_Breaches |
Massive Data Breach Exposes 6.6 Million Plaintext Passwords from Ad Company | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/plaintext-passwords-leaked.html | Another Day, Another Data Breach! And this time, it's worse than any recent data breaches.
Why?
Because the data breach has exposed plaintext passwords, usernames, email addresses, and a large trove of other personal information of more than 6.6 Million ClixSense users.
ClixSense, a website that claims to pay users ... | Data_Breaches |
324,000 Financial Records with CVV Numbers Stolen From A Payment Gateway | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/bluesnap-payment-gateway-hack.html | Around 324,000 users have likely had their payment records stolen either from payment processor BlueSnap or its customer Regpack; however, neither of the company has admitted a data breach.
BlueSnap is a payment provider which allows websites to take payments from customers by offering merchant facilities, whereas Reg... | Data_Breaches |
FBI Arrests Two Hackers Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI and CIA Director | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/fbi-cia-hacker-arrested.html | US authorities have arrested two North Carolina men on charges that they were part of the notorious hacking group "Crackas With Attitude."
Crackas with Attitude is the group of hackers who allegedly was behind a series of audacious and embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of senior officials at the... | Data_Breaches |
Russia's Largest Portal HACKED; Nearly 100 Million Plaintext Passwords Leaked | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/russias-largest-portal-hacked-nearly.html | Another data breach from 2012, and this time, it's Russia's biggest internet portal and email provider Rambler.ru.
Rambler.ru, also known as Russia's Yahoo, suffered a massive data breach in 2012 in which an unknown hacker or a group of hackers managed to steal nearly 100 Million user accounts, including their unencry... | Data_Breaches |
Hey, Music Lovers! Last.Fm Hack Leaks 43 Million Account Passwords | https://thehackernews.com/2016/09/lastfm-hacked.html | Another Day, Another Data Breach!
If you love to listen to music online and have an account on Last.fm website, your account details may have compromised in a data breach that leaked more than 43 Million user personal data online.
Last.fm was hacked in March of 2012 and three months after the breach, London-based mus... | Data_Breaches |
Dropbox Hacked — More Than 68 Million Account Details Leaked Online | https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/dropbox-data-breach.html | Hackers have obtained credentials for more than 68 Million accounts for online cloud storage platform Dropbox from a known 2012 data breach.
Dropbox has confirmed the breach and already notified its customers of a potential forced password resets, though the initial announcement failed to specify the exact number of a... | Data_Breaches |
Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats | https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/guccifer-hack-dccc.html | The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee (DNC), has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as well.
To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday night a massive am... | Data_Breaches |
Data Breach — Oracle's Micros Payment Systems Hacked | https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/oracle-payment-hack.html | The risks associated with data breaches continue to grow, impacting a variety of industries, tech firms, and social networking platforms. In the past few months, over 1 Billion credentials were dumped online as a result of mega breaches in popular social networks.
Now, Oracle is the latest in the list.
Oracle has con... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker Selling 200 Million Yahoo Accounts On Dark Web | https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/hack-yahoo-account.html | Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In the past few months, over 1 Billion account credentials from popular social network sites, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace and VK.com were exposed on the Internet.
Now, the same hacker who was responsible for selling data dumps for LinkedIn,... | Data_Breaches |
Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign also Hacked in Attack on Democratic Party | https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/hillary-clinton-hacked.html | There's a lot more to come from the DNC Hack.
The Associated Press confirmed yesterday that the computer systems used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were hacked as part of the recent Democratic National Convention (DNC) hack.
Last week's email dump containing almost 20,000 emails from top DNC officials wa... | Data_Breaches |
Ubuntu Linux Forum Hacked! Once Again | https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/ubuntu-hacked.html | No software is immune to being Hacked! Not even Linux.
The Ubuntu online forums have been hacked, and data belonging to over 2 Million users have been compromised, Canonical just announced.
The compromised users' data include their IP addresses, usernames, and email addresses, according to the company, who failed to ... | Data_Breaches |
Another CEO Hacked... It's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey! | https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/twitter-ceo-hacked.html | Twitter account of another high profile has been hacked!
This time, it's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
OurMine claimed responsibility for the hack, which was spotted after the group managed to post some benign video clips.
The team also tweeted at 2:50 AM ET today saying "Hey, its OurMine,we are testing your security," w... | Data_Breaches |
Over 1000 Wendy's Restaurants Hit by Credit Card Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/over-1000-wendys-restaurants-hit-by.html | The Popular fast-food restaurant chain Wendy's on Thursday admitted that a massive cyber attack had hit more than 1,000 of its restaurants across the country.
The burger chain did not speculate how many people may have been affected, though it did confirm that the hackers were able to steal its customers' credit and d... | Data_Breaches |
Google makes 2-Factor Authentication a lot Easier and Faster | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/google-prompt-2-step-verification.html | When it comes to data breaches of major online services like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and VK.com, it's two-factor authentication that could save you from being hacked.
Two-factor authentication or 2-step verification is an effective way to secure online accounts, but many users avoid enabling the feature just to sav... | Data_Breaches |
Insider Breach: T-Mobile Czech Employee Steals and Sells 1.5 Million Users Data | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/t-mobile-hacked.html | T-Mobile is the latest in the list of recent high-profile data breaches, though this time the breach is not carried out by "Peace" - the Russian hacker who was behind the massive breaches in some popular social media sites including LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com.
Instead, one of the T-Mobile's employees stole ... | Data_Breaches |
Github accounts Hacked in 'Password reuse attack' | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/github-password-hack.html | Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users' accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other recent data breaches.
Yes, GitHub has become the latest target of a password reuse attack after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter.
A... | Data_Breaches |
Over 51 Million Accounts Leaked from iMesh File Sharing Service | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/imesh-data-breach.html | How many more data dumps does this hacker have with him that has yet to be exposed?
Well, no one knows the answer, but we were recently made aware of another data breach from Peace – the same Russian hacker who was behind the massive breaches in some of the most popular social media sites including LinkedIn, MySpace, ... | Data_Breaches |
Warning! 32 Million Twitter Passwords May Have Been Hacked and Leaked | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/hack-twitter-password.html | The world came to know about massive data breaches in some of the most popular social media websites including LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, Fling, and VK.com when an unknown Russian hacker published the data dumps for sale on the underground black marketplace.
However, these are only data breaches that have been publicl... | Data_Breaches |
BitTorrent Forum Hacked; Change your Password Immediately | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/utorrent-hacked.html | If you are a torrent lover and have registered on BitTorrent community forum website, then you may have had your personal details compromised, along with your hashed passwords.
The BitTorrent team has announced that its community forums have been hacked, which exposed private information of hundreds of thousands of it... | Data_Breaches |
VK.com HACKED! 100 Million Clear Text Passwords Leaked Online | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/vk-com-data-breach.html | Another day, another Data Breach! Now, Russia's biggest social networking site VK.com is the latest in the line of historical data breaches targeting social networking websites.
The same hacker who previously sold data dumps from MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Fling.com, is now selling more than 100 Million VK.com rec... | Data_Breaches |
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Twitter, Pinterest accounts Hacked! And the Password was... | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/facebook-zuck-hacked.html | The man who runs the biggest social network and continuously implements new security measures to boost its billion users security, himself failed to follow basics of Internet security for his own online accounts.
Yes, I'm talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts compromise... | Data_Breaches |
Has Your TeamViewer Account Been Hacked? Here's What to Do Immediately | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/teamviewer-hacked-security.html | Do you have remote login software TeamViewer installed on your desktop?
If Yes, then it could be possible that your system can be accessed by attackers to steal your personal details, including your bank and PayPal accounts, as several reports on Reddit and Twitter suggests.
According to recent reports, the popular T... | Data_Breaches |
427 Million Myspace Passwords leaked in major Security Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/myspace-passwords-leaked.html | MySpace has suffered a major data breach in which hundreds of Millions of users have had their account details compromised.
You may have forgotten Myspace and have not thought of it in years after Facebook acquired the market, but Myspace was once-popular social media website.
On Tuesday, Myspace confirmed that the c... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker Selling 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/tumblr-data-breach.html | Earlier this month Tumblr revealed that a third party had obtained access to a set of e-mail addresses and passwords dating back from early 2013, before being acquired by Yahoo.
At that time, Tumblr did not reveal the number of affected users, but in reality, around 65,469,298 accounts credentials were leaked in the 2... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker puts up 167 Million LinkedIn Passwords for Sale | https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/linkedin-account-hack.html | LinkedIn's 2012 data breach was much worse than anybody first thought.
In 2012, LinkedIn suffered a massive data breach in which more than 6 Million users accounts login details, including encrypted passwords, were posted online by a Russian hacker.
Now, it turns out that it was not just 6 Million users who got their... | Data_Breaches |
Top 4 Data Breaches reported in last 24 Hours | https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/top-data-breach.html | There is no doubt that data breaches are on the rise. Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach.
According to the latest 'Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2016' report published by UK government, two-thirds of the biggest firm in the UK have experienced at least a cyber attacks or data breach... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker Arrested after Exposing Flaws in Elections Site | https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/hack-an-election.html | A security researcher responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in the poorly secured web domains of a Florida county elections, but he ended up in handcuffs on criminal hacking charges and jailed for six hours Wednesday.
Security researcher David Michael Levin, 31, of Estero, Florida was charged with three counts of gain... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker is Selling 272 Million Email Passwords for Just $1 | https://thehackernews.com/2016/05/hacked-email-accounts.html | A massive database of 272 million emails and passwords for popular email services, including Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo, are being offered for sale on the Dark Web for less than $1, media reports.
An anonymous Russian hacker, who goes by the moniker "the Collector," was first spotted by cybersecurity firm Hold Securi... | Data_Breaches |
In-Brief: Spotify Hack, Secret of Chrome OS, MIT Bug Bounty, Nanowire Batteries | https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/hacking-news-brief-1.html | 1. Spotify Hacked! Change your Password ASAP
If you are one of the millions of people around the world who love to listen to music on Spotify, you may need to change your password immediately.
Has Spotify been hacked? The company says no, but some Spotify users have claimed their profiles were hijacked, and details w... | Data_Breaches |
Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect | https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/chrome-data-security.html | In Brief
Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data.
But, now Google has updated its browser's User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect.
Furthermore, developers a... | Data_Breaches |
Microsoft Sues US Govt Over Unconstitutional Secret Data Requests | https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/microsoft-gag-orders.html | Microsoft is suing the Department of Justice (DoJ) to protest the gag order that prevents technology companies from telling their customers when their cloud data is handed over to authorities.
In layman's terms, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) allows the government to issue gag orders saying that the ... | Data_Breaches |
Personal Data of 50 Million Turkish Citizens Leaked Online | https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/personal-data-leaked.html | Personal details of nearly 50 Million Turkish citizens, including the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been compromised and posted online in a massive security breach.
A database, which contains 49,611,709 records, appeared on the website of an Icelandic group on Monday, offering download links to anyone... | Data_Breaches |
Ransomware attacks on Hospitals put Patients at Risk | https://thehackernews.com/2016/04/hospital-ransomware.html | Just last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an urgent "Flash" message to the businesses and organisations about the threat of Samsam Ransomware, but the ransomware has already wreaked havoc on some critical infrastructure.
MedStar, a non-profit group that runs 10 hospitals in the Baltimore and Was... | Data_Breaches |
Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus HACKED! Customers Data Leaked | https://thehackernews.com/2016/03/ddos-protection.html | Staminus Communications – a California-based hosting and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection company – is recovering a massive data breach after hackers broke down into its servers and leaked personal and sensitive details of its customers.
Though the company acknowledged that there was a problem in a mess... | Data_Breaches |
Warning — Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System | https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hack.html | Are you also the one who downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th? You may have been Infected!
Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image.
Here's why:
Last night, Some... | Data_Breaches |
Police Arrest 16-year-old Boy Who Hacked CIA Director | https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/cia-hacker-arrested.html | The teenage hacker, who calls himself a member of hacktivist group "Cracka with Attitude," behind the series of hacks on the United States government and its high-level officials, including CIA director, might have finally got arrested.
In a joint effort, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British police re... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers Are Offering Apple Employees $23,000 for Corporate Login Details | https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/hacking-apple-id.html | An unsatisfied Employee may turn into a Nightmare for you and your organization.
Nowadays, installing an antivirus or any other anti-malware programs would be inadequate to beef up the security to maintain the Corporate Database.
What would you do if your employee itself backstabbed you by breaching the Hypersensitiv... | Data_Breaches |
Hacker Leaks Info of 30,000 FBI and DHS Employees | https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/fbi-dhs-hacked.html | An unknown hacker who promised to release the personal information on government employees has dump online a list of nearly 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers.
Though the authenticity of the information has not been verified, at least, some of t... | Data_Breaches |
Password Security — Who's to Blame for Weak Passwords? Users, Really? | https://thehackernews.com/2016/01/password-security-manager.html | The majority of Internet users are vulnerable to cyber threats because of their own weaknesses in setting up a strong password. But, are end-users completely responsible for choosing weak passwords?
Give a thought.
Recently we wrote an article revealing the list of Worst Passwords of 2015 that proved most of us are s... | Data_Breaches |
Casino Sues Cyber Security Company Over Failure to Stop Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2016/01/casino-hacker.html | IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" investigation following a network breach of the casino operator's system.
Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has questioned Trustwave's ... | Data_Breaches |
191 Million US Voters' Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database | https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/us-voter-database-hacked.html | BREAKING: A misconfigured database has resulted in the exposure of around 191 Million voter records including voters' full names, their home addresses, unique voter IDs, date of births and phone numbers.
The database was discovered on December 20th by Chris Vickery, a white hat hacker, who was able to access over 191 ... | Data_Breaches |
Hyatt Hotel Says Payment Systems Hacked with Credit-Card Stealing Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hyatt-hotel-hack.html | Hyatt Hotels Corporation is notifying its customers that credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen after it found malware on the computers that process customer payments.
"We recently identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations,"... | Data_Breaches |
Shocking! Instagram HACKED! Researcher hacked into Instagram Server and Admin Panel | https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/how-to-hack-instagram.html | Ever wonder how to hack Instagram or how to hack a facebook account? Well, someone just did it!
But, remember, even responsibly reporting a security vulnerability could end up in taking legal actions against you.
An independent security researcher claims he was threatened by Facebook after he responsibly revealed a s... | Data_Breaches |
13 Million MacKeeper Users Hacked — 21 GB of Data Exposed | https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/mackeeper-antivirus-hacked_14.html | MacKeeper anti-virus company is making headlines today for its lax security that exposed the database of 13 Million Mac users' records including names, email addresses, usernames, password hashes, IP addresses, phone numbers, and system information.
MacKeeper is a suite of software that claims to make Apple Macs more ... | Data_Breaches |
China — OPM Hack was not State-Sponsored; Blames Chinese Criminal Gangs | https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/china-hacker-opm-breach.html | In the most surprising manner, the Chinese government said it arrested criminal hackers behind the massive cyber attack on US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) earlier this year, dismissing its involvement.
Three months back, we reported that China arrested a handful of hackers within its borders who were suspected... | Data_Breaches |
Toymaker VTech Hack Exposes 4.8 Million Customers, including Photos of Children | https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/vtech-toymaker-hacking.html | Earlier this month, a massive data breach at VTech – the maker of tablets and gadgets aimed at children – exposed the personal details of about 4.8 Million parents and photos of more than 200,000 Children.
If that was not bad enough…
…it turns out that the massive cyber attack against the toymaker company also left h... | Data_Breaches |
How to Build a Successful Incident Response Plan | https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/how-to-incident-response-plan.html | The fight to protect your company's data isn't for the faint of heart.
As an embattled IT warrior, with more systems, apps, and users to support than ever before, keeping everything up and running is a battle in itself.
When it comes to preventing the worst-case scenario from happening, you need all the help you can ... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers have Hacked into US Arrest Records Database | https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/hacking-arrest-record.html | The Group of teenage hackers, which previously hacked into the personal email of the CIA director John Brennan and published a large trove of sensitive data, has now had its hands on even more important and presumably secure target.
Hackers Accessed Law Enforcement Private Portal
The hacking group, Crackas With Attit... | Data_Breaches |
Fourth, a 16-year-old Hacker, Arrested over TalkTalk Hack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/talktalk-hacker.html | Police have arrested a fourth person, a 16-year-old boy, from London in connection with the high-profile hack of British telecoms giant TalkTalk.
The investigating officers from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) arrested the teenager at his home in Norwich on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
... | Data_Breaches |
TalkTalk Hack: Police Arrest Second Teenager in London | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/talktalk-hack.html | British Police have arrested a second teenage boy in relation to the major hack on the servers of UK-based telco 'TalkTalk' last week.
On Monday, a 15-year-old boy (first arrest) from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was arrested in connection with the TalkTalk Data Breach.
On Thursday, The Metropolitan Police Cyber ... | Data_Breaches |
Biggest Free Hosting Company Hacked; 13.5 Million Plaintext Passwords Leaked | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/free-web-hosting-hacking.html | The world's most popular Free Web Hosting company 000Webhost has suffered a major data breach, exposing more than 13.5 Million of its customers' personal records.
The stolen data includes usernames, passwords in plain text, email addresses, IP addresses and last names of around 13.5 Million of 000Webhost's customers.
... | Data_Breaches |
Duuzer Trojan: A New Backdoor Targeting South Korean Organizations | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/computer-malware-attack.html | Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a new Backdoor Trojan that grants hackers remote access and some control over infected machines.
"Duuzer," as dubbed by the researchers, has been targeting organizations in South Korea and elsewhere in an attempt to steal valuable information.
The Trojan is designed to ... | Data_Breaches |
15-year-old Boy Arrested in connection with TalkTalk Cyber Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/talktalk-hacker-arrested.html | The arrest is the first major outcome since TalkTalk – the biggest phone and broadband provider in the UK with more than 4 Million customers – had suffered a serious data breach.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the investigating officers from the Metropolitan police's cyber crime unit (MPCCU) have ar... | Data_Breaches |
TalkTalk Hacked; 4 Million Credit Card Profiles may have been Stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/talktalk-data-breach.html | TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based phone and Internet service provider with more than 4 Million customers, has been hacked again, the company announced late Thursday.
TalkTalk is informing its 4 million customers that it has fallen victim to a "significant and sustained cyber attack" and it is possible that sensiti... | Data_Breaches |
Samsung LoopPay Hacked, but 'Samsung Pay' is Safe | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/Samsung-LoopPay-hack.html | Samsung has been surrounded by a lot of controversies since the past few years, but that has not influenced its productivity.
But this report has raised a few eyebrows...
Samsung's mobile payment system company, LoopPay, was hacked back in March this year, just a month after Samsung bought it to help make Samsung Pay... | Data_Breaches |
Data Breach Day — Patreon (2.3M), T-Mobile (15M) and Scottrade (4.6M) — HACKED! | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/data-breach-hacking.html | This week, three high-profile data breaches took place, compromising personal and sensitive details of millions of people.
Telecommunication giant T-Mobile
Crowdfunding website Patreon
US brokerage firm Scottrade
In T-Mobile's case, its credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing highly sensi... | Data_Breaches |
How to Freeze Credit Report To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/howto-Freeze-Credit-Report.html | If your Social Security number gets hacked in any data breaches, including recently hacked T-Mobile, then there's a way to prevent hackers from misusing your identity (i.e. identity theft).
The solution here is that you can institute a security freeze at each of the three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, or TransUni... | Data_Breaches |
Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/experian-tmobile-hack.html | If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service.
T-Mobile's credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15 million people in the Unit... | Data_Breaches |
5.6 Million Federal Employees' Fingerprints Stolen in OPM Hack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/opm-hack-fingerprint.html | The OPM Data Breach (Office of Personnel Management) is getting even worse than we thought.
We already know more than 21 Million current and former federal employees had their personal and highly sensitive private information hijacked in a massive data breach that affected Defense Department's OPM.
But, now it has be... | Data_Breaches |
AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/avg-antivirus.html | We at The Hacker News are big fans of Security Software – The first thing we install while setting our Computers and Devices.
Thanks to Free Security Software that protects Internet users without paying for their security.
But, Remember: Nothing comes for FREE
"Free" is just a relative term, as one of the world's mo... | Data_Breaches |
Health Insurer Excellus Hacked; 10.5 Million Records Breached | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/health-insurance-hacking.html | Health Care Hacks — the choice of hackers this year!
In a delayed revelation made by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS), which says that about 10.5 Millions of their clients' data and information has been compromised by hackers.
Excellus BCBS headquartered in Rochester, New York, provides finance and health care se... | Data_Breaches |
11 Million Ashley Madison Passwords Cracked In Just 10 Days | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/ashley-madison-password-cracked.html | Last month, when hackers leaked nearly 100 gigabytes of sensitive data belonging to the popular online casual sex and marriage affair website 'Ashley Madison', there was at least one thing in favor of 37 Million cheaters that their Passwords were encrypted.
But, the never ending saga of Ashley Madison hack could now d... | Data_Breaches |
These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/top-cyber-attacks-2.html | In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect.
As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows.
In this article, I have listed a... | Data_Breaches |
These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/top-cyber-attacks-1.html | If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong.
Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed across the news in the las... | Data_Breaches |
Disgusting! Ashley Madison was Building an App – 'What's your Wife Worth?' | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-whats-your-wife-worth-app.html | We could expect Ashley Madison to cross any limits when it comes to cheating, but this is WORSE.
After all the revelations made by the Impact Team past week, this was something different from the leaked data that had names, password and other details of Ashley Madison clients.
A dump from the leaked files unfold awfu... | Data_Breaches |
Here's the List of Top 10 Big Tech Companies where Ashley Madison is very Popular | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hacked_26.html | Cheaters Exposed!
Would it be the Impact Team or a woman ex-employee who worked for Avid Life Media (as per John McAfee claims), the hackers that breached the cheater's dating website Ashley Madison has made the world aware of a lot of unfaithful people.
The data crunching firm Dadaviz has analysed the leaked informa... | Data_Breaches |
Ashley Madison Hacker – An Insider Woman Employee? | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack-insider-woman-job.html | "Ashley Madison was not hacked!"
This is what declared by John McAfee, former founder of antivirus software company McAfee.
So far everyone must be aware of Ashley Madison massive data breach. Last week, the hackers, who called themselves Impact Team, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of Millions of its customers... | Data_Breaches |
Hack Leads to Extortions and Suicides! Ashley Madison puts $500,000 Bounty on Hackers' Head | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack_24.html | It's been a rough week for cheating website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short, have an affair."
Last week, the Impact Team, who claimed to hack Ashley Madison, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of Millions of its customers, including their names and email addresses.
The hackers made things even worse... | Data_Breaches |
Ashley Madison Hackers (with another 300GB Dump) – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't Yet Done | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hacked.html | Over a month ago, a group of hackers breached the popular cheater's dating service Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media, affecting tens of Millions site customers private life and also dump the website's source code onto the dark web.
The hackers behind the Ashley Madison hack, who call themselves The... | Data_Breaches |
Ashley Madison 2.0 — Hackers Leak 20GB Data Dump, Including CEO's Emails | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack.html | The Impact Team – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't yet done.
The group of hackers behind the breach of Ashley Madison, the popular cheater's dating service, have released a second, even much bigger 'cheat sheet' exposing sensitive materials that include sensitive corporate information.
Two days ago, the hackers released ne... | Data_Breaches |
Web.com Hacked! Credit Card information of 93,000 Customers Compromised | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/webcom-hacked-credit-card-stolen.html | Web.com, a Florida-based web hosting company with up to 3.3 Million customers, has suffered a data breach and may have compromised personal information and credit card data belonging to 93,000 of its clients.
The company on Tuesday confirmed that some unknown hackers had breached one of its computer systems on August ... | Data_Breaches |
Ashley Madison Hackers Finally Released All the Stolen Data Online | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-accounts-leaked-online.html | Well, Cheaters are about to have a very Bad Night Today!
Hackers who claimed to have stolen customers' data from Ashley Madison, the popular online casual sex and cheating website with a tagline "Life is short. Have an affair," recently leaked nearly 10GB of its users' personal data online.
The group of hackers, whic... | Data_Breaches |
AntiVirus Firm BitDefender Hacked; Turns Out Stored Passwords Are UnEncrypted | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/bitdefender-hacked.html | Forget about Financial services and Online shopping websites, but at least we expect from Security Firms and Antivirus vendors to keep our personal and Sensitive data Encrypted and Secured.
One of the most popular and much-respected Antivirus and computer security firms 'BitDefender' has recently been hacked and has h... | Data_Breaches |
United Airlines Hacked by Sophisticated Hacking Group | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/united-airlines-hacked.html | A group of China-backed hackers believed to be responsible for high-profile data breaches, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and the insurance giant Anthem, has now hit another high-profile target – United Airlines.
United detected a cyber attack into its computer systems in May or early June; Bloomber... | Data_Breaches |
Lessons We Learned From Ashley Madison Data Breach | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/ashley-madison-hack.html | Do you use your Real Identity online and think about being private? If yes, then you are insane.
Ashley Madison, the popular online dating website with tagline "Life is short. Have an affair", recently got hacked, reportedly exposing a sample of its users' account information and other personal data online.
The hacke... | Data_Breaches |
Oops! Adult Dating Website Ashley Madison Hacked; 37 Million Accounts Affected | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/adult-dating-website.html | "Life is short. Have an affair," but always remember "Cheaters never prosper."
AshleyMadison.com, an American most prominent dating website, that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, potentially putting very private details of Millions of its users at risk of being exposed.
The Stolen personal... | Data_Breaches |
Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/bitcoin-mining-server.html | Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin.
The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website.
Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage showing the partial ... | Data_Breaches |
Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials? | https://thehackernews.com/2015/06/china-data-theft.html | The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach.
Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and steal records of Millions of employees, making it ... | Data_Breaches |
Adult Friend Finder... Hacked & 3.5 Million Users' Database Leaked Online | https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/adult-friend-finder.html | Until now, hackers have targeted companies and websites that hold your credit card details or medical information, but now they are showing interest in your sex life instead.
You heard it right. Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot now", has suffered a mas... | Data_Breaches |
TalkTalk Admits Customer Data Breach, warns of Scam Calls | https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/TalkTalk-hack-data-breach.html | TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based phone, TV and Internet service provider with 4 million customers, has admitted it suffered a major Data Breach.
TalkTalk said customer information was accessed after a breach at a third-party company, in which names, addresses, phone numbers and TalkTalk account numbers have been ... | Data_Breaches |
Researcher Publishes 10 Million Usernames and Passwords from Data Breaches | https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/researcher-publishes-10-million_10.html | A security researcher has publicly released a set of 10 Million usernames and passwords, which he collected from multiple data breaches over the last decade for the purpose of his research.
These 10 million usernames and passwords are collective of leaked database dumps those were already available publicly on the Int... | Data_Breaches |
Anthem Data Breach — 6 Things You Need To Know | https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/anthem-data-breach.html | The Nation's second largest Health insurer company, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by Target data breach occurred in 2013.
The stolen pers... | Data_Breaches |
20 Million Credentials Stolen From Russian Dating Site 'Topface' | https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/topface-chat-dating-website.html | A database containing details of more than 20 Million users of a Russian-based online dating website has been allegedly stolen by a hacker and made publicly available for sale through an online forum.
A hacker using the online alias "Mastermind" on an online forum used by cybercriminals claims the responsibility of th... | Data_Breaches |
Minecraft hacked! More than 1800 Minecraft account Credentials Leaked | https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/minecraft-game-hacked.html | A sad reality for gamers all around the world who enjoy playing the very popular game Minecraft on their PCs. If you are one of them, you'll want to pay attention here.
A plain text file containing over 1,800 Minecraft account usernames and passwords has just been leaked online, German media reports. The details avail... | Data_Breaches |
Data Loss Prevention – Log & Event Manager | https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/data-loss-prevention-tools.html | In today's world your network is subject to a multitude of vulnerabilities and potential intrusions and it seems like we see or hear of a new attack weekly. A data breach is arguably the most costly and damaging of these attacks and while loss of data is painful the residual impact of the breach is even more costly.
T... | Data_Breaches |
Hackers leak 13,000 Passwords Of Amazon, Walmart and Brazzers Users | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/password-hacking-data-breach.html | Hackers claiming affiliation with the hacktivist group "Anonymous" have allegedly leaked more than 13,000 username and password combinations for some of the worlds most popular websites, including Amazon, Xbox Live and Playstation Network.
The stolen personal information was released in a massive text document posted ... | Data_Breaches |
Sony Pictures Hack — 5 Things You Need To Know | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/sony-pictures-hack.html | What a horrible start the holiday season in U.S. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Sony Pictures Entertainment suffered a massive data breach as "Guardians of Peace" hacked-into Sony Pictures' computer system that brought the studio's network to a screeching halt.
Following the hack, hackers leaked five unreleased Sony movie... | Data_Breaches |
'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday' — 4 Scams To Watch Out For While Shopping | https://thehackernews.com/2014/11/black-friday-and-cyber-monday-4-scams_26.html | Holiday Shopping season is really an excited time for both shoppers and retailers, but unfortunately it's a good time for cyber criminals and scammers as well.
With Black Friday (28th November 2014) and Cyber Monday (1st December 2014) coming up, you need to be more careful while shopping. These are the two very busy ... | Data_Breaches |
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