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 03, 2019

XKCD forums breached

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?

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June 19, 2019

Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly

A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web's most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users' passwords.

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March 12, 2019

Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers

A recent study shows that if you aren't prepared to ask or pay for security, you probably won't get it.

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February 27, 2019

Millions of utilities customers’ passwords stored in plain text

Plain-text, unencrypted passwords were sent instead of having users reset them. There was no breach, the firm claims, but how would it know?

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December 05, 2018

Quora.com admits data breach affecting 100 million accounts

Hackers have compromised data from the accounts of 100 million users of question and answer site Quora.com.

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September 11, 2018

Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords

Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with "one-way encryption" and is "adding more security measures".

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May 19, 2016

Millions of LinkedIn passwords up for sale on the dark web

Darn cheap, too: the whole lot was priced at about $2,200. LinkedIn has confirmed that the data is legitimate.

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