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There’s never been a data breach like it and it’s difficult to fully appreciate its severity. The hack of Quora exposed 100 million users accounts that contain a wealth of detailed and perhaps unique personal information found nowhere else on the Internet, exposing them to serious risks ahead including blackmail. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo admitted …
This week Marriott disclosed a four-year-long data breach of the personal information of its hotel guests. It’s unclear how the breach occurred or why it took so long to come to their attention but the scope of the breach makes it one of the most troubling data breaches in history. Marriott International the world’s largest …
Just days before Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the unofficial kickoff of the Holiday shopping season in the United States, online retail giant Amazon is tight-lipped about what appears to be a massive data breach involving consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom and across Europe. The stock price of the company has already …
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In 2015, millions of US Federal Employees of the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) had their identities hacked in a massive data breach many attribute to the Chinese government seeking leverage on them. A recent court hearing brings them one step closer to free lifelong identity protection. It has taken three years but two unions …
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Three weeks ago, Facebook revealed a serious data breach that affected up to 50 million people. Now they have revised that number down to “only 30 Million” but the breach remains one of the most serious in history not just because of its size but because of the far-reaching impact it will have. In our …
Facebook faces fines of $1.63 billion after hackers gained access to 50 million users accounts and tried to harvest private information including name, sex and hometown. Facebook cannot determine the extent of the hackers’ access to Facebook or the thousands of third-party sites that users log into using their Facebook accounts. Its been a rough …
Free WiFi sounds great, but unsecured WiFi is truly a great threat. [Update] On Friday, August, 24, According to Motherboard, T-Mobile updated their statement to say that encrypted passwords were in facts stolen, as MyProfyle suggested was a real possibility. Further analysis by independent security experts suggest that the encryption is vulnerable to hackers. This past …
After years of legal trouble over its business practices, LifeLock has allegedly exposed its users to a new threat through an unsecure website, exposing its users’ personal information at risk. The latest in a series of embarrassing flaws and exaggerations by LifeLock may be the most serious as it appears to have put its entire …
Last year Experian exposed virtually everyone – this year is no better. In July 2018, Dark Reading marketed the mid-way point of 2018 by publishing a list of the year’s biggest data breaches – so far. It used to be lists like these would be produced every few years, then once a year, soon we expect them …
