Over 117 million emails and passwords belonging to LinkedIn members have been put online for sale, it has been revealed. Worryingly, this trove of information is not thought to have been obtained from a recent data breach. In fact, it is believed that the data was accessed in 2012, when the professional social network was … More 117 million LinkedIn members compromised by 2012 data breach
ESET Ireland recommends Irish computer users change their email passwords in light of the suggested global email breach. Last week it was reported a massive global email breach has occurred. Allegedly 272 million email accounts were compromised in one of the largest revealed data breaches to date. ESET Ireland, however, cannot confirm this, as the … More 42,000 Irish emails breached? Change passwords now!
Carphone Warehouse is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after the UK high street retailer revealed that they were the victim of a major hack. The ICO, which is the UK’s official data watchdog, said that it looking into the breach, which has affected up to 2.4 million customers. A spokesman for … More ICO investigating major data breach at Carphone Warehouse in the UK
The “Hacking Team” security company has been hacked and more than 400 GB of confidential info has been leaked by a group of unidentified attackers. Normally, this would be just another report talking about one intrusion among all the others that we see every day in companies around the world. Hacking Team’s status as a … More 400GB of info leaked from Hacking Team
Facebook has admitted to a security breach which exposed details such as emails and phone numbers for six million site users. The “bug” was found by a researcher working for the social network’s White Hat program, where security researchers are paid “bug bounties” of $500 and up for finding bugs. “We recently received a report … More Facebook security breach exposed personal data for six million users
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