Whether you chose to call it “Celebgate” or refer to it by the rather crude moniker of “The Fappening”, there’s no doubt that the leaking on the internet of private nude photographs of dozens of Hollywood stars was one of the biggest stories of 2014. At least 50 celebrity Apple iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail … More Nude celebrity photo hacker sentenced to 18 months in prison
This weekend it emerged that Pippa Middleton was the latest in a long line of celebrities to have her online accounts broken into by criminals, and private photographs stolen. As The Daily Mail reports, a man who had allegedly broken into Pippa Middleton’s iCloud account was offering 3,000 private photographs of the 33-year-old socialite including … More What Pippa Middleton can teach us about iCloud security
Avid Life Media (ALM), recently rebranded as Ruby Corp, has been heavily criticized for its lax cybersecurity measures, which contributed to the Ashley Madison data breach. According to a joint investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, ALM had “inadequate security safeguards and policies” … More Lax ALM security ‘contributed’ to Ashley Madison data breach
More than 800,000 usernames, email addresses, and birth dates are thought to have been stolen by hackers from online forums run by Epic Games. Epic, famed for developing popular games such as Unreal Tournament, Gears of War and Infinity Blade, are thought to have had members of their message boards exposed by hackers exploiting a … More Epic Games forums hacked again – over 800,000 gamers put at risk
What has happened? LeakedSource is claiming that a database of over 32 million Twitter account credentials is up for sale on the criminal underground – containing details such as users’ Twitter handles, email addresses, and plaintext password. So Twitter was hacked then? Jumping to that conclusion too early might be unwise. Both LeakedSource and Twitter … More 32 million Twitter account credentials up for grabs – but site says it wasn’t hacked
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