December 28, 2022

Twitter data of “+400 million unique users” up for sale – what to do?

If the crooks have connected up your phone number and your Twitter handle... what could go wrong?

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December 23, 2022

LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal your password vaults, after all…

The crooks now know who you are, where you live, which computers are yours, where you go online... and they got those password vaults, too.

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August 29, 2022

LastPass source code breach – do we still recommend password managers?

What does the recent LastPass breach mean for password managers? Just a bump in the road, or a reason to ditch them entirely?

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November 23, 2021

GoDaddy admits to password breach: check your Managed WordPress site!

GoDaddy found crooks in its network, and kicked them out - but not before they'd been in there for six weeks.

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July 02, 2020

133m records for sale as fruits of data breach spree keep raining down

Databases can be had for as little as $100, on up to $1,100. Most, if not all, are being sold by the hacking group Shiny Hunters.

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June 25, 2020

Twitter apologizes for leaking businesses’ financial data

Twitter emailed business clients to tell them that their financial data may have been seen by the uninvited.

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June 03, 2020

Amtrak breached, some customers’ logins and PII potentially exposed

The US rail service hasn't disclosed the number of passengers affected in a 16 April breach.

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May 14, 2020

Woman stalked by sandwich server via her COVID-19 contact tracing info

She wanted a sub, not Facebook, Instagram and SMS come-ons from the guy who served her and intercepted her contact-tracing details.

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May 12, 2020

Dating app user logins found on hacking forum

3.5 million user logins for the MobiFriends dating app are being offered for free on a popular dark web hackers forum.

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