Back in 2012, LinkedIn told its users that it had been hacked – to the tune of 6.5 million users. Well, it turns out, that was a tad bit shy of the truth. It turns out that the real number was 117 million email and password combinations. – roughly 18 times the number that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nulled.io, a forum that sells compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins and other neat stuff was hacked recently, exposing email addresses of people buying and selling, purchase histories and messages between buyers and sellers for 500,000 members. Here is what the website looks like today: If you look at their “tag line” below their logo, it says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In late 2014 Home Depot announced that hackers compromised their security and stole 50 million credit cards and another 50 million loyalty cards. 18 months later, there are still three class action lawsuits pending. One is close to settling. In a recent 10-K filing with the SEC, Home Depot said that they had spent over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Motherboard is reporting that over 7 million user accounts belonging to the Minecraft community “Lifeboat” are for sale. Security researcher Troy Hunt is loading the data onto his web site “Have I been Pwned?” so that people can check if there data was in hacked group. Lifeboat runs servers for custom multiplayer editions of Minecraft […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As could be expected, the Wendy’s data breach saga continues. A proposed class action lawsuit was filed by a credit union in Pittsburgh representing all banks who were affected by the breach. As reported by Brian Krebs in March, credit unions said that they saw a rise in fraudulent credit card use that was greater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess it should not come as a big surprise as there are more hacks and breaches, but the degree of lost confidence by federal government employees in the last two years is still staggering. Dell conducted a survey of federal government employees in 2014 and again this year and the numbers are amazing. In […]
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