August 08, 2022

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

"When those invitations went out... somehow, your password hash went out with them."

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March 05, 2020

Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack

It's charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.

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October 02, 2019

218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga's user data - including names, emails and passwords.

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September 14, 2016

Pay-to-click ad service hacked, 6.6M plaintext passwords dumped

It was 20 years ago today, no, make that 40, that Sergeant Pepper taught us not to store plaintext passwords...

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August 30, 2016

Opera announces data breach: stored passwords stolen for 1.7M users

1.7M users of "Opera sync" were hit when crooks made off with encrypted passwords stored on the Sync servers.

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September 15, 2015

Who gives the best advice about password security?

Britain's GCHQ has just produced a great document about password security. We like it, and we think you should read it...

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September 10, 2015

11 million Ashley Madison passwords cracked in 10 days

Remember how Ashley Madison did one thing right: hashed the passwords properly? Turns out they missed a few...million.

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June 20, 2015

“Belts and breaches” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

Here's the latest episode of our entertaining news-in-1-minute security roundup. Enjoy!

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June 16, 2015

Bad news! LastPass breached. Good news! You should be OK…

LastPass, a company that makes a popular password manager, just found out that crooks got into its network. But if you picked a proper password, you should be OK...

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