September 03, 2019

XKCD forums breached

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?

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May 31, 2019

Flipboard data breach – what users should do now

Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard - one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting - has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.

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May 04, 2018

Twitter admits to password storage blunder – change your password now!

Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database - but not in its logs, where it's been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.

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November 27, 2017

Imgur breached back in 2014, wasn’t storing your passwords properly

Photo-sharing site Imgur just found out it was breached back in 2014 - and back then it wasn't storing your passwords securely.

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December 06, 2016

Daily Motion video sharing service named in breach claim of 80M accounts

Popular video sharing service Dail Motion has been named in a data breach claim involving 80M accounts and about 20M password hashes.

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November 11, 2016

Yahoo staff knew they were breached two years ago

Its quarterly report says that a state-sponsored actor had access to the company’s network in late 2014

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July 11, 2016

Datadog bitten by data breach, kills all passwords

Hackers took a bite out of SaaS platform Datadog, breaching multiple servers on Friday. Fortunately, it protects passwords with bcrypt.

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April 15, 2016

Millions more adult and dating website accounts for sale on dark web

A hacker on a dark web forum was offering 3.8 million email addresses and hashed passwords stolen from the porn site Naughty America for $300.

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October 02, 2015

Patreon crowdfunding site hacked – all it takes is one mistake…

Debugging a test version of your website with real data? Best to have it on a test network, not the real internet!

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