Nowadays, you are more likely to first learn of breaches on Twitter than from the entity’s site or email, as this thread today from Hack The Box demonstrates: Dear users – we apologise unreservedly for the recent disclosure of email addresses. A statement will follow shortly regarding the cause, impact, and preventative measures that we’ll…
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HomeApplicationsXGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online XGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online
Gaurav Shukla writes: In what could be termed as a massive security breach, three Android apps offered by developer DMobileAndroid were found to be inadvertently sharing thousands of private photos and documents online. The apps offered by the developer are XGimp, MaxiPDF and Docswork, each of which has been downloaded anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000…
People are taking Equifax to small-claims court via chatbot — and winning
Ethan Wolff-Mann reports: In September, entrepreneur Joshua Browder’s Do Not Pay chatbot website added a new skill: allowing people to sue Equifax for its monumental data breach that exposed the personal information of 145.5 million people, which included Social Security numbers. A few months later, the results are coming in and people are winning judgements…
Hackers breached BeeToken’s email list and stole $1M worth of Ethereum
TNW reports: It appears cryptocurrency startup BeeToken, which promised to disrupt the home sharing industry by putting its service on the blockchain, has been hacked. The attackers are actively targeting its initial coin offering (ICO) with phishing attacks and have already duped gullible investors for over $1 million worth of Ethereum. The company has confirmed…
Study: Alarming Number of Fortune 500 Credentials Found in Data Leaks
Ben Layer reports: Data breaches are common in the news lately, but a recent study by credential monitoring firm VeriClouds focuses specifically on the credentials of Fortune 500 employees found in account leaks posted online. Using a corpus of 8 billion stolen credentials gathered over three years, the total number of employees of each Fortune…
‘Panty Buster’ Toy Left Private Sex Lives Of 50,000 Exposed
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Some might be considering the purchase of a special kind of pleasure-giving device for their partner as a gift. But they might want to rethink those plans: the quality of cybersecurity in newfangled, connected sex toys has been unsurprisingly shocking in recent years. And it doesn’t…