Category: #DataBreach

Twitch In an effort to “foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space,” an anonymous hacker has leaked the entirety of Twitch’s…

The State Department was reportedly hit by a cyberattack in recent weeks, prompting the Department of Defense’s Cyber Command to send out notifications warning of a…

As safe as you might feel sitting at your laptop, happily typing and posting and scrolling, we all know the truth: the internet is actually…

Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images Earlier this week, T-Mobile confirmed news and reports that the company had been hacked and experienced a wide customer data breach. And…

As part of its ongoing data breach investigation, T-Mobile has confirmed the enormity of the stolen information. Roughly 47.8 million current and former or prospective…

Following reports of a data breach over the weekend, T-Mobile has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident. In an update published on Monday, the company…

Is it any wonder Microsoft is rumored to be launching Windows 11, with the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report showing the largest uptick since the inception of…

Whether there is a ransom or not, data breaches always have financial implications. Organizations may face regulatory penalties, operational losses, and reputational damage. Careful planning…

McDonald’s is now one of the latest companies to have suffered a third-party data breach. The company says it is not dealing with ransomware, but…

Air India has revealed that a data breach compromised 4.5 million passengers dating back to 2011. Source: https://www.engadget.com/air-india-data-breach-163950054.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Last week, security consultant Bob Diachenko found an unsecured database run by the Etsy-owned music marketplace Reverb. Read more… Source: https://gizmodo.com/etsy-owned-music-sales-site-reverb-hit-with-data-breach-1846789193 Proactive Computing found this…

Casimiro PT/Shutterstock A security flaw allowed “fraudsters” to steal driver’s license numbers from Geico’s online sales system, according to a data breach notice filed with…

The personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaked online. That’s a large percentage of the world’s population, so you should check to see if…

(credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Microsoft Exchange servers compromised in a first round of attacks are getting infected for a second time by a…

Microsoft Defender Antivirus has been updated so that it automatically mitigates CVE-2021-26855 on vulnerable Exchange servers. Source: https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-defender-prevent-exchange-server-exploits-191547916.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and that…

Security researchers reported at least 30,000 organizations across the US have been hacked over the past few days by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber-espionage unit…

Microsoft had a warning for its customers on Tuesday, and it’s boldly calling out the bad actors. According to Microsoft, Chinese hackers are behind Exchange…

The far-right hate platform Gab has been hacked and 70GB of private posts and other data are being made available to journalists and social scientists,…

A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day, a prominent global law firm that recently stirred backlash for…

Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal, the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems…

The scope of the SolarWinds hack keeps growing. The New York Times has conducted interviews indicating that the allegedly Russia-backed campaign was much further-reaching than…