December 9, 2022 Is Avast Safe to Use in 2023? Is Avast Safe to Use in 2023? Even though Avast’s products have a good reputation, a few incidents have made people worry about how…
November 24, 2022 Most dangerous and Richest Hackers in the world Most dangerous and Richest Hackers in the world Introduction Hacking is a dangerous business. It requires skill, dedication, and patience, but it can also…
November 19, 2022 Boys Town Healthcare Data Breach Exposed Personal Details of Patients Another day and yet another breach of data! The Boys Town National Research Hospital appears to have been the source of what looks to…
November 19, 2022 Activist Leaks 11,000 Private Messages from WikiLeaks’ Twitter Chats An activist just released thousands of confidential conversations from a group notorious for leaking the private communications of others. Journalist and activist Emma Best…
November 19, 2022 Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers The Dixons Carphone data breach in 2017 was more severe than initially thought. One of Europe’s biggest consumer electronics and telecommunications retailers, Dixons Carphone,…
November 19, 2022 Reddit Hacked – Emails, Passwords, Private Messages Stolen Another day and yet another significant breach of data security Today, someone’s anger appears to be directed toward Reddit; specifically, the person’s anger is…
November 19, 2022 Snapchat Hack — Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub Recently, the source code for the widely used social media application Snapchat was discovered online. This was the result of a hacker leaking the…
November 19, 2022 Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You To make the internet a safer place for people who use the internet, Google has made it so that all websites that are not…
November 19, 2022 Air Canada Suffers Data Breach — 20,000 Mobile App Users Affected A data breach that may have affected 20,000 of Air Canada’s 1.7 million app users has been confirmed. Between August 22 and August 24,…
November 19, 2022 British Airways Hacked – 380,000 Payment Cards Compromised The “World’s Favorite Airline,” British Airways, has acknowledged a data breach that exposed up to 380,000 customers’ personal information and credit card numbers over…
November 18, 2022 UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency with headquarters in Atlanta, has been fined a total of £500,000 by the UK’s privacy watchdog as a…
November 18, 2022 SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users After unidentified hackers stole personally identifiable information (PII) from nearly 6.5 million customers, U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has acknowledged that the business has…
November 18, 2022 Facebook Hacked — Important Updates You Need To Know About If you checked Facebook on Friday and found that you were not logged in, you were not the only one. As a precautionary measure…
November 18, 2022 Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users’ Data Following a significant data breach that allowed third-party developers access to the private information of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users, Google has…
November 18, 2022 Facebook Fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal After allowing political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly collect and use the data of 87 million users, Facebook has finally been hit with…
November 18, 2022 Another Facebook Bug Could Have Exposed Your Private Information The world’s most well-known social network may be at risk for another security flaw that could have given hackers access to users and their…
November 18, 2022 Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million Two computer hackers have been sentenced to prison for their roles in the hacking of TalkTalk in 2015, which resulted in the theft of…
November 18, 2022 Real Identity of Hacker Who Sold LinkedIn, Dropbox Databases Revealed Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov (Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov), a resident of Penza, Russian Federation, has been identified as Tessa88, the notorious hacker responsible for numerous high-profile…
November 18, 2022 Uber fined $1.1 million by UK and Dutch regulators over 2016 data breach The ride-sharing company Uber was fined a total of $1,170,892 ( 1.1 million) on Tuesday by British and Dutch data protection authorities for failing…
November 18, 2022 500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach 500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach Today, the largest hotel chain in the world, Marriott International, made public the news…
November 17, 2022 Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen The most well-known question-and-answer website in the world, Quora, has experienced a significant data breach…
November 17, 2022 Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach,…
November 17, 2022 New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps Due to a programming error, 1,500 third-party apps were able to see 6.8…
November 17, 2022 Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach Twitter had a small data breach, which it thinks was caused by a state-sponsored attack….
November 17, 2022 Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach Another day, another security breach in the database. This time, it’s the National Aeronautics and Space…
November 17, 2022 Google fined $57 million by France for lack of transparency and consent The French data protection watchdog CNIL has issued its first fine of €50 million (around $57 million) under the European Union’s new General Data…
November 17, 2022 Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees’ Data Exposed European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its “Commercial Aircraft business” information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some…
November 17, 2022 Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites, Puts 127 Million New Records Up for Sale A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch…
November 16, 2022 Over 92 Million New Accounts Up for Sale from More Unreported Breaches All these numbers…. “More than 5 billion records from 6,500 data breaches were exposed in 2018” — a report from Risk Based Security says….
November 16, 2022 LPG Gas Company Leaked Details, Aadhaar Numbers of 6.7 Million Indian Customers Why would someone bother to hack a so-called “ultra-secure encrypted database that is being protected behind 13 feet high and 5 feet thick walls,”…