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Dodging bad passwords with Google’s new tool
Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in…
August 19, 2019
Epic Games slapped with lawsuit over hacked Fortnite accounts
Epic Games who developed Fortnite has been sued for not protecting Fortnite accounts from hackers.
August 14, 2019
Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested
The hacker behind the breach (Paige Adele Thompson) has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One.
July 30, 2019
Hackers steal 7.5TB of data from Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor
The hackers stole the data and shared it with another hacking group who was involved in the hacking…
July 21, 2019
Slack data breach: Company resets thousands of passwords
Slack data breach took place in 2015 but the company became aware of the incident recently through its…
July 18, 2019
Hackers used Samsung website to access Sprint’s customer data
Sprint Corporation, an American telecommunications company has announced that it has suffered a data breach after unknown hackers…
July 16, 2019
Unprotected MongoDB leaks 188m users’ data from sensitive search engine
Another day, another data breach...
July 10, 2019
Border Patrol data breach: Footages of tourists entering/exiting the US compromised
The data breach took place after a database used by Border Patrol was hit by a “malicious cyber-attack.”…
June 11, 2019
Quest Diagnostics data breach affects 12 million customers
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after…
June 4, 2019
News aggregator app Flipboard hacked; user data stolen
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just…
May 29, 2019