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Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software
Enlarge (credit: Prayitno / Flickr) Six servers Cisco uses to provide a virtual networking service were compromised by hackers who exploited critical flaws contained in…
GoDaddy confirms security breach affecting 28,000 hosting accounts
GoDaddy has admitted to BleepingComputer that 28,000 customers’ hosting accounts had been compromised in a security breach. The company notified affected users through an email…
J.Crew says a hacker accessed some customer accounts
Clothing giant J.Crew said an unknown number of customers had their online accounts accessed “by an unauthorized party” almost a year ago, but is only…
Clearview AI, controversial facial-recognition company focused on cybersecurity, gets hacked
Clearview AI, the creepy facial-recognition company that scrapes your photos from social media, has been hacked. According to a report by The Daily Beast, hackers…
[Updated] Samsung’s “Accidental” Global Push Notification Came From a Data Breach
Justin Duino Last week, Samsung sent out a global notification to Galaxy devices containing just the number 1. At the time, the company said it…
Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymizing Them
The nation’s largest financial data broker, Yodlee, holds extensive and supposedly anonymized banking and credit card transaction histories on millions of Americans. Internal documents obtained…
Data breach at U.S. agency in charge of securing Trump’s communication
The Defense Information Systems Agency, which calls itself a combat support agency of the Defense Department on its website, employs 8,000 military and civilian employees….
U.S. indicts 4 Chinese military hackers for giant Equifax breach
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted four members of the Chinese military for the 2017 Equifax breaches, which exposed the data of more than 145…
Google Photos bug sent private videos to strangers
If you used Google Takeout to back up your Photos files from November 21st to 25th, 2019, a stranger out there may have a copy…
Phishing scams leveled up and we didn’t
More than a bit of “I’m smarter than you” politics creates the divide between hacking headlines and what we actually need to worry about. On…
Hackers are selling card info stolen in last year’s Wawa breach
If you purchased anything at the East Coast gas station and convenience store chain Wawa between March and December last year, there’s a chance your…
Social media boosting service exposed thousands of Instagram passwords
A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase increase a user’s Instagram followers, has exposed thousands of Instagram account passwords….
Microsoft accidently exposed 250 million customer service records
While most people were out celebrating the start of a new year, Microsoft’s security teams were working overtime to close a potentially enormous security loophole….
Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models
Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered…
Wyze leaks personal data for 2.4 million security camera users
You buy a home monitoring camera to improve your security, but Wyze customers might have wound up achieving the opposite. The company, which makes $20…
LifeLabs Suffers 15 Million Customer Data Leak Attack
As hacking becomes more of a profitable venture than a method of collateral damage, we’re seeing bigger and bigger companies fall victim to hackers. Recently,…
Over 267 million Facebook users reportedly had data exposed online
More than 267 million Facebook users allegedly had their user IDs, phone numbers and names exposed online, according to a report from Comparitech and security…
Millions of People using TrueDialog SMS Messages Experience Data Leak
Many companies use an SMS text messaging system that is different than the one you use on your phone. This is what the companies’ employees…
Millions of Twitter and Facebook users may have had their personal information compromised
Twitter and Facebook have confirmed millions of users may have had their personal information compromised by malicious software hidden in third-party apps. This includes names,…
OnePlus reveals its second website data breach in two years
Early in 2018, popular cellphone maker OnePlus revealed it had coughed up credit card information on over 40,000 users in a data breach, and now…
More than 1 million T-Mobile customers exposed by breach
T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach affecting more than a million of its customers, whose personal data (but no financial or password data) was exposed…
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