Tag: data breach
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LeakedSource Founder Arrested for Selling 3 Billion Stolen Credentials
Canadian authorities have arrested and charged an Ontario man for operating a website that collected ‘stolen’ personal identity records and credentials from some three billion online accounts and sold them for profit. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom of Thornhill is the person behind the notorious LeakedSource.com—a major […]
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Forever 21 Warns Shoppers of Payment Card Breach at Some Stores
Another day, another data breach. This time a fast-fashion retailer has fallen victim to payment card breach.American clothes retailer Forever 21 announced on Tuesday that the company had suffered a security breach that allowed unknown hackers to gain…
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2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected By Equifax Breach
The Equifax data breach was bigger than reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than initially revealed. According to Credit rating agency Equifax an additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were impacted by the massive data breach, the company disclosed last month, bringing the total possible victims to 145.5 million from 143 million. Equifax last […]
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32 Million Twitter Passwords May Have Been Hacked and Leaked
The world came to know about massive data breaches in some of the most popular social media websites including LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, Fling, and VK.com when an unknown Russian hacker published the data dumps for sale on the underground black marketplace. However, these are only data breaches that have been publicly disclosed by the hacker. […]
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Spotify Hack?
Spotify Possibly Hacked! Change your Password ASAP If you are one of the millions of people around the world who love to listen to music on Spotify, you may need to change your password immediately. Has Spotify been hacked? The company says no, but some Spotify users have claimed their profiles were hijacked, and details […]